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<p>Surveying exotic travel writing in Europe from late antiquity to the age of discover,<i> The Witness and the Other World </i>illustrates the fundamental human desire to change places, if only in the imagination.</p><p>Mary B. Campbell looks at works by pilgrims, crusaders, merchants, discoverers, even armchair fantasists such as Mandeville, as well as the writings of Marco Polo, Columbus, and Walter Raleigh. According to Campbell, these travel accounts are exotic because they bear witness to

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Author

American Council of Learned Societies;Campbell, Mary B

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501721090

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Anthropology, Travel

Updated

2026-03-25