Opening ParagraphExisting accounts of the Masai may be broadly grouped under three heads: (1) The popular impressionist accounts of the tribe by travellers in East Africa; the numerous travel works on this part of Africa nearly all contain some mention of the tribe, but in the main, these descriptions are calculated for their dramatic effect, and thus become largely inaccurate and valueless for the serious student. (2) Studies of the tribe such as those contained in the works of N. Leys and W. M. Ross. These authors approach the subject rather from the political angle, and make a study of the tribe largely for the purpose of criticizing Kenya's native policy. (3) The works dealing with the tribe from the ethnographic and anthropological standpoint; of the older works, the most important are those by A. C. Hollis and M. Merker. Among the more recent contributions the most outstanding are those by L. S. B. Leakey and S. Storrs-Fox. Daryll Forde has also given an account of the tribe from the point of view of the social geographer.

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Studies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars have generally focused upon the military dimension or the political consequences of the conflict. Although recent scholarship has broadened to consider the cultural aspects of the wars, the travel experiences of those that fought have been neglected. Histories concerned with state‐building or languages of patriotism and nationality generally focus on elite groups, while the concentration of military history upon the battlefield has occluded other aspects of the soldierly experience. On the other hand, historians of travel writing have ignored the extent to which many war narratives were also travelogues. But Napoleonic soldiers’ letters, diaries and memoirs are full of ethnographic observations on the foreign peoples and cultures they encountered while campaigning. The role of eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century travel literature in shaping images of the foreign ‘other’ and hierarchies of civilisations has been recognised. However, much of this existing work concentrates on famous travel writers. It is only relatively recently that soldiers’ accounts from the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars have been approached as a form of travel writing and one that did much to shape understanding of Europe. Indeed, soldiers appropriated the travelogue style to construct their own accounts.