Reviews a series of books. Books include `Place Matters: Gendered Geography in Victorian Women's Travel Books about Southeast Asia,' by Susan Morgan, `Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel,' by Inderpal Grewal, `Difficult Women, Artful Lives: Olive Schreiner and Isak Dinesen, In and Out of Africa,' by Susan R. Horton, and `Imperialism at Home: Race and Victorian Women's Fiction,' by Susan Meyer.