And yeah, cookbooks & travel books tend to make me want to poke my eyes out generally.
On the topic of travel books -- there's a fantastic anthology called Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing, edited by Tabish Khair, Martin Leer, Justin Edwards and Hanna Ziadeh, which is a fascinating counter to the usual "White People Discover Rest Of World And Colonize/Appropriate/Patronize It" stuff which has shaped the genre.
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Date: 2007-10-23 05:58 pm (UTC)On the topic of travel books -- there's a fantastic anthology called Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing, edited by Tabish Khair, Martin Leer, Justin Edwards and Hanna Ziadeh, which is a fascinating counter to the usual "White People Discover Rest Of World And Colonize/Appropriate/Patronize It" stuff which has shaped the genre.