Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial DissolutionIn Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth century travel writing and its dynamic function in European colonialism. Arriving too late to the Orient, at a time when tourism and colonialism had already turned the exotic into the familiar, late nineteenth century European travelers to the Middle East experienced a sense of belatedness, of having missed the authentic experience once offered by a world that was