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Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing 1770-1840 flight mechanics customs and everyday life ofThe decades between 1770 and 1840 are rich in exotic accounts of the ruin strewn landscapes of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico. Yet it is a field which has been neglected by scholars and which unjustifiably remains outside the literary canon. In this pioneering book, Nigel Leask studies the Romantic obsession with these 'antique lands', drawing generously on a wide range of eighteenth and nineteenth century travel books, as well as on recent