Tim Youngs

Tim Youngs is Professor of English and Travel Studies at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), where he is director of the Centre for Travel Writing Studies. His many books on travel writing include Travellers in Africa: British Travelogues, 1850-1900 (1994), The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (edited with Peter Hulme, Cambridge, 2002), Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Filling in the Blank Spaces (ed., 2006) and The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing (Cambridge, 2013). He is...See more

Tim Youngs is Professor of English and Travel Studies at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), where he is director of the Centre for Travel Writing Studies. His many books on travel writing include Travellers in Africa: British Travelogues, 1850-1900 (1994), The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (edited with Peter Hulme, Cambridge, 2002), Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Filling in the Blank Spaces (ed., 2006) and The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing (Cambridge, 2013). He is the founding editor of the journal Studies in Travel Writing. See less