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Literature of Travel and Exploration : An Encyclopedia by Jennifer Speake, editor is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jennifer Speake, editor
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780203505335
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Travel, Literary Criticism, Anthropology
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