"An elegantly presented offering from Victoria Kuttainen, Susann Liebich and Sarah Galletly, that explores the intersecting themes of modernity, colonialism, glamour and travel in three ‘culture and leisure’ magazines in interwar Australia … There is much to commend in the book. The authors’ commitment to taking seriously the ways in which consumers of knowledge, through the act of reading, actively understood and negotiated complex ideas demonstrates the continued need to engage with cultural texts, especially Australian print culture. The Transported Imagination is indeed noteworthy precisely because it brings attention to magazines, which remain a desperately overlooked source of cultural activity … A welcome addition [that] would also be of interest to scholars of travel, modernity, and interwar Australia." —Australian Historical Studies
"The Transported Imagination offers the reader a window into a highly mobile and modern Australia with a comparative analysis of three Australian periodicals during the interwar period … Though many of us may associate the interwar period with the Great Depression, the authors explain that this was also a time when mobility and print culture reached its peak … [they] explore the complexities of the Australian experience of colonial modernity during the interwar period … [and] highlight the tension between tourist and traveller, primitive and modern, consumerism and culture, and high and low brow. … an ambitious study which balances an in-depth study of literature with a more global cultural history of travel to demonstrate Australians’ ‘world-mindedness.’" —The Journal of Pacific History
