Tales of Land and Sea:Travel Narratives of the Trans-Pacific South 1700-1900
Edited by Ricardo Cicerchia and Matthew O'Meagher

Year of publication: 2005
ISBN: 0975831313

RRP: $AUS 30.00

This book brings together a series of reflections originally offered by scholars from New Zealand, Latin America and Europe at an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies in Auckland, New Zealand. Its seven articles reconstruct and deconstruct travel accounts as discourses of cultural practices, with reference to voyages relating to Latin America, the Pacific, or the imagination. Particular attention is given to travellers and itineraries in the understanding of their texts or to an aesthetic dimension that develops a genealogy of travel accounts still open to debate and ethnographic reflection.

Ricardo Cicerchia  is a Professor of Latin American History at the University of Buenos Aires and National Researcher at CONICET (National Council of Sciences and Technology), Argentina. A Columbia PhD, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of London, and the 1998 winner of the 'Best History Book in Argentina' award for HISTORIA DE LA VIDA PRIVADA EN ARGENTINA, he was a Senior Research Fellow in Latin American Studies at the University of Auckland.

Matthew O'Meagher is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Auckland and the founding Director of the New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies. A Duke PhD, he has published on historical interactions between New Zealand and Latin America and been a consultant for the New Zealand government on education links with that region.