This volume explores and historicizes the phenomenon of 'microtravel', a term coined to designate slower journeys within a limited radius which allow, and sometimes necessitate, new forms of experiencing the world. The chapters study travelogues that recalibrate the scale of journeying, with travellers slowing down their journeys and readjusting their relationship to the proximate and nearby.

Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley and Kathryn Walchester. Microtravel: An Introduction; Section 1: Confinement and immobility, Joelle Weis, How to Travel in Monastic Confinement: An Imaginary Journey to the New World; Sally Abed, The Nile, Immortality and the Body in Lucie Duff Gordon's Letters from Egypt; Gabor Gelleri, A Slow Boat to Indochina: Immobility and Micro-movements on the Raod to Indochina; Carole Delaitre, No Going Back - Interrupted Journeys and Identity Crisis in Marie Ndiaye; Section 2: Deceleration and pedestrianism, Jayson Althofer, Friedrich Engels Travels in a Chimney; Beatrice Blanchet, 'I wanted to think, write, stay or move on at my own speed and unencumbered': Pedestrian Rites of Passage in Patrick Leigh Fermor's Time of Gifts; Zoë Kinsley, 'Foot foundered & broken down': Painful Pedestrianism in John Clare's 'Journey out of Essex'; Section 3: Palimpsestic travel, Patricia Murray, Elegy for the Living: Travels in Guyana with Michael Swan and Wilson Harris; Robert Francis, Back to the Base - Palimpsestic Travel in the Black Country Geopark; Emma Gleadhill, Objects Observed and Reflected: Women Tourists, Microtravel and Souvenirs, 1750-1830; Section 4: Microspection and microsound, Kathryn Walchester, 'This is a place where we should like to have lived': The garden as 'dwelling place' in Dorothy Wordsworth's Travel Writing; Charles Forsdick, In a sound world: on micro-audition as a mode of microtravel; Eleanor Lischka, 'The Echo of Great Spaces Traversed': Microaudition and Vertical Travel in In Search of Lost Time