Anandarup Biswas

Gebundenes Buch

Inveterate Walkers, Literary Minds

Bengal's Pilgrims and Their Himalayan Journeys

Beschreibung

Inveterate Walkers, Literary Minds makes visible the writings of Bengal's travellers (mostly pilgrims) who went, on foot, into Himalayan trails from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It traces the emergent subjectivities of the men and women who wrote both ordinary travel accounts and reflective self-writing.

Autor

Anandarup Biswas is an Associate Professor in English literary studies at Shibpur Dinobundhoo College, affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He is also a guest faculty in the Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata. His doctoral research on the Australian writer Eric Rolls falls under the domain of environmental humanities. His essay titled Bengal's Encounter with the Himalaya: Mountaineering Beyond Conquest" has found a place in the anthology, The Mountain and the Politics of Representation, edited by Jenny and Martin Hall (2023). He has also published essays on environmental humanities, travel writing and Sherpa autobiographies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781032751207
• ISBN-10: 1032751207
• Artikelnr.: 71809416