Travels, Explorations and Empires, 1770-1835, Part II: Travel Writings on North America, the Far East, North and South Poles and the Middle East

ISBN-13: 9781851967216 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 1752 str.

Opis

The Romantic Period saw the advance of the massive British imperial expansion that was to make it dominant for most of the 19th century. There was a corresponding expansion in travel writings, which, highly popular in their own time, seemed to bring exotic realms within the grasp of the reading public and were a source for ethnographic and cultural information about other societies.