SULTRY CLIMATES

Book ID/图书代码： 00530014B76080

English Summary/英文概要： The sexual motives of travel are rarely spelled out. Travel books, social histories, guides and brochures favour a more wholesome image of tourist pursuits. But in the shadows there is an alternative history of tourism made up of precisely the details that usually go unmentioned. It is this history that Sultry Climates sets out to explore.

Among the many travellers discussed here are eighteenth-century Grand Tourists, rebels from the Romantic era, Victorian pilgrims to the Mediterranean, American expatriates of the 1920s, early sun-worshippers and post-war package tourists.

What emerges from their stories is a continuing thread of erotic experience, for the most part neglected or ignored by cultural historians, that has been central to the meaning of travel for women as well as men, gay people as well as straight.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 沙龙网站的点评，“生动通俗，而又博学… 这是一本可以不可或缺的最佳机场伴读，虽然我不敢打包票，哪一本读物会比这本更为有意思。”从历史观点上说，旅游背后的性动机几乎从不会在旅游指南的小册子中标识出来。《闷热的气候》是一部旅游历史手册，其细致的内容描述，通常会被读者忽略。而作者伊恩•利特尔伍德在现今的‘快餐文化’之下，却向我们展示了一种令人炫目的优雅和智慧。如果我们想要搞清楚19世纪和20世纪早期著名的（英国贵族子弟的遍游欧洲之旅）“教育之旅”，作为游客必须首要考虑去的，如德累斯顿（前东德的都市）的妓女街，和威尼斯的交际花，正如他们会把德雷斯顿美术馆和威尼斯哥特式的总督府作为游览线路一样。从希腊的拜伦到德国的伊舍伍德，从波尔多左岸的美国侨民，到摩洛哥的奥尔顿，和直至如今一些欧洲著名景点，从这些经历中涌现出来的是，延续不断的旅游主题，以及之前被我们曾被我们忽略和忽视的经典旅游地。”就这本旅游历史题材而言，可谓是一部大气之作。 ——《洛杉矶时报》 (Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：Deliciously racy, provocative and quick witted, stuffed with louche anecdotes and exotic quotes (Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times)

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