Airplane Mode

Shahnaz Habib

The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the colours of passports and the colour of skin. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history of travel with her personal story as a child on family vacations in India, an adult curious about the world, and an immigrant for whom round trips are an annual fact of life. Woven through the book are inviting and playful analyses of obvious and not-so-obvious travel artifacts: passports, carousels, bougainvilleas, guidebooks, trains, the idea of wanderlust itself. Together, they tell a subversive history of travel as a Euro-American mode of consumerism - but as any traveller knows, travel is more than that.

Author(s): Habib, Shahnaz
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 01/08/2024
Pagination: 288 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: September
Published By: September
Book Classification: Travel writing|Travel guides: business travel|Tourism geography|Colonialism & imperialism|Human geography|Memoirs|Literary essays|Travel tips & advice: general
Dimensions: 198x129x12
Weight: 224
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781914613708