"The intoxicating and romantic possibilities of the exotic would be deliberately embraced in the 19th century and cultivated and playfully fashioned into escapist fantasies of armchair travel. Balzac's My Journey from Paris to Java clearly belongs to this genre and deserves to be more widely known as a classic." Foreword, Nigel Barley
"The intoxicating and romantic possibilities of the exotic would be deliberately embraced in the 19th century and cultivated and playfully fashioned into escapist fantasies of armchair travel. Balzac's My Journey from Paris to Java clearly belongs to this genre and deserves to be more widely known as a classic." Foreword, Nigel Barley