Travel, a literary history, Peter Whitfield
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Travel, a literary history, Peter Whitfield
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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non fiction
Main title
Travel
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746224286
Responsibility statement
Peter Whitfield
Sub title
a literary history
Summary
No previous generation has ever travelled so energetically or so obsessively as ours, nor has travel writing ever been so much in fashion as it is now. But behind the self-conscious literary artistry of today's narratives there lies a rich and fascinating history of travel writing, stretching back over several thousand years
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Machine generated contents note: One.The Prehistory of Travel Writing -- Two.The Age of Discovery -- Three.The Seventeenth Century: The Non-conquerors -- Four.The Eighteenth Century: Travelling for Knowledge -- Five.The Nineteenth Century: The Theatre of the World -- Six.The Twentieth Century: No Foreign Land
Target audience
adult
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