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Real and fictional journeys to foreign lands. Travel writing as a genre that tries to make the strange familiar. Gulliver's Travels as a satire that attempts to make the familiar strange. Women explorers, from the fourteenth-century pilgrim Margery Kempe to women on the American frontier, from Isabelle Eberhardt, who traveled through North Africa dressed as a holy man, to Alexandra David-Neel, who visited Tibet at a time when it was forbidden to foreigners. A seventeenth-century manuscript of a 1,200-page letter from Peru written by Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala and its attempt to write a history of ancient Peru, its version of the Spanish conquest of Peru.
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