ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the emergence and proliferation of expeditions during the age of the modern empires. It also examines the think of covered wagons with families and livestock advancing across prairies. The book illuminates the expedition by stepping around the question of exploration. Lorenzo Veracini is interested in expeditions that were intended for the purpose of founding settlements, rather than making discoveries and reporting back. The Expeditions Afterlives concerns a Land Rover journey from England to Singapore, known as the Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition of 1955-6. The MacRobertson journey mobilized vehicular technology in its reprocessing of a failed colonial expedition. Lorenzo Veracini suggests that Xenephons great journey encapsulates the logic of settler colonial expeditions in North America and elsewhere. The affiliation between military and scientific journeying is consistent with other aspects of imperial administration.
