This book explores the lives and writings of ten figures whose work conveyed new knowledge of other cultures, including Sir George Grey, Winwood Reade, Roger Casement, and Gertrude Bell. Embracing issues such as gender and travel, racial science, the globalization of "native management," the internal colonies and more, and the essays will engage all those with an interest in cultural geography, postcolonial studies, anthropology, biography and travel writing.