Download or read book Accidental Orientalists written by Barbara Spackman and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph in English to address Orientalism in the writings of Italian travellers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to do against a backdrop of comparative reference to works in English and French that preceded or were contemporary to them.