Sultry Climates Author:Ian Littlewood Historically, the sexual motives of travel have rarely been spelled out in travel guides and brochures. But there is an alternative history of tourism, made up of precisely the details that usually go unmentioned. As Ian Littlewood demonstrates here with dazzling elegance and wit, if we want to make sense of the celebrated "Grand Tour" of the ni... more »neteenth and early twentieth centuries, for example, it's as important to take account of travelers' visits to Dresden streetwalkers and Venetian courtesans as it is to reckon with their visits to the Dresden picture gallery and the Doge's Palace. To understand the Victorian passion for the Mediterranean, we need to be aware of Greek and Italian attractions that extended far beyond the historical. From Byron in Greece to Isherwood in Germany, from American expatriates on the Left Bank to Orton in Morocco and right up to the present day, what emerges from these experiences is a continuing motif of tourism, previously neglected or ignored, that comes into full view only with the twentieth century's cult of the sun. Suffice it to say that after reading Sultry Climates, you'll never look at tourists in quite the same way again.« less