MEANING OF TRAVEL: PHILOSOPHERS ABROAD (PB)

Part memoir, part philosophical thought experiment, this book begins in the Age of Discovery in the sixteenth century when philosophers first began thinking and writing seriously about travel. It goes on to explore Montaigne’s thoughts on otherness, John Locke on cannibals, and Henry Thoreau on wilderness. The author confronts questions, such as the debate on the ethics of 'doom tourism' (travel to doomed places such as glaciers or coral reefs), and how space travel might come to affect our understanding of human significance.