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New Travel Writing from Parlor Press

Sarah Heckford: A Lady Trader in the Transvaal Edited by Carole G. Silver

© 2008 by Parlor Press; Writing Travel Series, edited by Jeanne Moskal 317 pages with illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. 978-1-60235-082-3 (paperback, $30.00; £18.00; €23.00; $33.00 Can); 978-1-60235-083-0 (hardcover, $60.00; £36.00; €46.00; $66.00 Can); 978-1-60235-084-7 (Adobe eBook, $16.00; £10.00; €13.00; $18.00 Can).

A Lady Trader in the Transvaal presents the South African adventures of Sarah Heckford, a once famous but now forgotten Anglo-Irish gentlewoman. After treking to the Transvaal in 1878, this intrepid woman served as governess, doctor, builder, nurse, and farmer. Silver’s introduction to Sarah Heckford: A Lady Trader in the Transvaal examines Heckford’s eventful life both before and after the events of her book and contextualizes her both as a “traveler in petticoats” and an atypical trader. It explores Heckford’s attitudes to war and empire and to Africans and Afrikaners as it seeks to reveal the private selves of this unique and multi-faceted woman.

Eating Europe

A Meta-Nonfiction Love Story Jon Volkmer © 2006 by Parlor Press; Writing Travel Series, edited by Jeanne Moskal

256 pages. 1-932559-89-2 (paperback; $18.00; £11.00); 1-932559-88-4 (cloth; $34.00; £20.00); 1-932559-90-6 (Adobe ebook on CD; $14.00; £8.00) Eating Europe: A Meta-Nonfiction Love Story is travel writing in its most hilarious, poignant, and consequential form. In the end, Eating Europe strives for reconciliations: the author to his wife, the wife to her character, the author to his work, the work to its genre, America to France.

Vienna Voices

A Traveler Listens to the City of Dreams Jill Knight Weinberger © 2006 by Parlor Press; Writing Travel Series, edited by Jeanne Moskal

264 pages; ISBN 1-932559-89-2 (paperback; $18.00; £11.00); 1-932559-88-4 (cloth; $34.00; £20.00); 1-932559-90-6 (Adobe eBook on CD; $14.00; £8.00)

A work of creative nonfiction, Vienna Voices: A Traveler Listens to the City of Dreams offers a nuanced portrait of the enigmatic “City of Dreams,” whose intellectual and artistic culture reached its height at the end of the nineteenth century, only to be eclipsed in the twentieth by the collapse of the Habsburg empire and the rise of National Socialism.

Writing Travel Series

Edited by Jeanne Moskal, University of North Carolina | http://www.parlorpress.com/travel.html

The series publishes original travel writing; editions of out-of-print travel books or previously unpublished travel memoirs; English translations of important travel books in other languages; theoretical and historical treatments of ways in which travel and travel writing engage such questions as religion, nationalism/cosmopolitanism, and empire; gender and sexuality; race, ethnicity, and immigration; and the history of the book, print culture, and translation; biographies of significant travelers or groups of travelers (including but not limited to pilgrims, missionaries, anthropologists, tourists, explorers, immigrants); critical studies of the works of significant travelers or groups of travelers; and pedagogy of travel and travel literature and its place in curricula.