Lost Worlds

Think of Latin America and what do you see? Escape? Adventure? Chaos? Oblivion? Lost Worlds explores how these stereotypes came into being and what they tells us about ourselves.

Examining a range of texts, from Southey''s epics to Naipaul''s essays, from Conan Doyle''s gentlemen adventurers to Kerouac''s restless hipsters, this book reveals the role that Latin America has played in British, US and...