Andrea White is the author of four books of middle-grade fiction and serves on the editorial board of the Houston Chronicle. She lives in Houston, TX with her husband, former Mayor Bill White, and is grateful to share this book, which she penned 20 years ago.
Introduction
1. Constructing the imperial subject: nineteenth-century travel writing
2. Adventure fiction: a special case
3. Them and us: a useful and appealing fiction
4. The shift toward subversion: the case of Rider Haggard
5. Travel writing and adventure fiction as shaping discourses for Conrad
6. Almayer's Folly
7. An Outcast of the Islands
8. The African fictions: (I) - An Outpost of Progress
9. The African fictions: (II) - Heart of Darkness.
