Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia
Jennifer Speake
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism).
For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literatureof Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literatureof Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Kategorie:
Rok:
2003
Wydanie:
2nd
Wydawnictwo:
Routledge
Język:
english
Strony:
2100
ISBN 10:
1579582478
ISBN 13:
9781579582470
Plik:
PDF, 13.88 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2003