This collection of thirteen essays on literary analysis of travel writing from the Mediterranean region examines depictions of the Self and Other in texts from ancient Greece to the present. The works address a wide range of topics including the development of Greek identity, European interactions with the East in the years surrounding the Crusades, Italian Baroque travel literature and English women travelers in Italy in the nineteenth century. Contributors include academics in the humanities and Mediterranean languages from several European universities. Distributed in the US by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)