Literature of Travel and Exploration: A to FContaining 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 Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website. |
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Pagina 392 - As I WALKED through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold, I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Literature of Travel and Exploration: A to F Volume 1 di Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia, Jennifer Speake, ISBN 1579582478, 9781579582470 |
| Autore | Jennifer Speake |
| Curatore | Jennifer Speake |
| Edizione | illustrata, ristampa |
| Editore | Taylor & Francis, 2003 |
| ISBN | 157958425X, 9781579584252 |
| Lunghezza | 1479 pagine |
| Esporta citazione | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |