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Literature of Travel and Exploration

Literature of Travel and Exploration : An Encyclopedia. 2 vols. 旅行・探検文学百科事典 全2巻

・ISBN 978-1-57958-247-0 2003 hard set GB£ 525.00

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電子版あり 大学・学術機関向け電子ブック(eBook)ISBN 978-0-203-50533-5

著者・編者Speake, Jennifer (ed.),
出版社(Fitzroy Dearborn, US)
ページ数1350 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<498-28>

解説

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 Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.