Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introducing the Explorer Traveller -- Part 1: The Hero’s Journey -- 2. The Call to Adventure -- 3. Preparation and Departure -- 4. The Journey -- 5. The Return -- Part 2: Imagining Explorers -- 6. Fiction and the Myth of the Explorer -- 7. Desert Island Castaways...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Extraordinary Journeys -- 2. The Gift Shop at 221B Baker Street -- 3. A Misspent Youth (Children’s Fiction and Travel) -- 4. Murder They Wrote -- 5. The Past is a Foreign Country -- 6. No Country for Old Men -- 7. Once Upon a Time in the West -- 8....

This book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel - based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change - is a major trend in future tourism. In particular, it analyses how romanticised myths of explorers form a...