The Mind of the Traveler: From Gilgamesh to Global Tourism

By Eric J. Leed

Categories: History

The Mind of the Traveler: From Gilgamesh to Global Tourism (1991) is a history by Eric J. Leed of how Western travel has shaped identity and culture. Leed follows heroic quests, pilgrimages and scientific voyages from Gilgamesh and Odysseus through Marco Polo and Darwin, arguing that departure, passage and arrival remake the self. He ends with modern tourism, when movement that once marked the stranger becomes routine.

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