Flora Blanchon (dir.), Aller et Venir. Faits et perspectives (Coming and Going. Facts and Perspectives). Paris, Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002, 389 p.

“After the first volume of Coming and Going, which was mainly devoted to ideas suggested by the notion of travel”, explains Flora Blanchon, “this second volume has ambitions that one might call technical”. The diversity of approach, historical, geographical and even technical is indeed what characterises this collection of texts on travel in several Asian countries. The first part is given over to the river and sea routes, beginning with “The economic and legal aspects of transport by river...