The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing |
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| Editor:
| Hulme, Peter
Youngs, Tim |
| Series title: | Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-78652-2 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2002 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $60.95 |
Book Description:
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The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing offers a broad, specially commissioned introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. Fives essays survey the period's travel writing; six more focus on areas of particular interest--Arabia, the Amazon, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California; while the final three analyse some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions to this most enigmatic and influential genre of writing. An extensive durther reading list is...
More DescriptionThe Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing offers a broad, specially commissioned introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. Fives essays survey the period's travel writing; six more focus on areas of particular interest--Arabia, the Amazon, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California; while the final three analyse some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions to this most enigmatic and influential genre of writing. An extensive durther reading list is provided, plus a detailed chronology.