Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9781579582470 / Angielski / Twarda / 1350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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,...
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, ...
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Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I (Set): Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910
ISBN: 9781851967605 / Angielski / Twarda / 1880 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature serv...
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Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, PT.2, V.1-4
ISBN: 9781851968664 / Angielski / Twarda / 2064 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of a seven-volume facsimile set, this volume comprises firsthand accounts of France in the 1790s. It includes Helen Maria Williams' letters which narrate the fall of Robespierre in 1794 and her 1798 book on Switzerland which comments sceptically on the necessary coexistence of liberty with peace.
Part of a seven-volume facsimile set, this volume comprises firsthand accounts of France in the 1790s. It includes Helen Maria Williams' letters which...
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The Travel Writings of John Moore
ISBN: 9781848930995 / Angielski / Twarda / 1520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Moore (1729-1802) was a Scottish physician who travelled extensively and wrote immensely popular accounts of these travels. He records his encounters with Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Prince Charles Edward Stuart and the Pope, along with other notable figures, and gives a first-hand account of the September Massacres and the downfall of the French monarchy during the Revolution. His work brought him international fame. He became friends with Edmund Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Robert Burns and won the admiration of Lord Byron and Maria Edgeworth. Later, Thomas Carlyle used Moore as a...
John Moore (1729-1802) was a Scottish physician who travelled extensively and wrote immensely popular accounts of these travels. He records his encoun...
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Women's Travel Writings in Italy, Part II
ISBN: 9781851969876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly apparatus. The texts have been carefully selected to illustrate various themes in women's history.
Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly apparatus. The tex...
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Indian Travel Writing, 1830-1947
ISBN: 9781138811171 / Angielski / Twarda / 1800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indian Travel Writing is a new five-volume collection co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse. Hitherto, the paucity of readily available travel writing produced by imperial subjects themselves has long been apparent, and this anthology addresses that lack. A veritable treasure-trove, it brings together scarce documents which are currently widely dispersed or very difficult for scholars, researchers, and students across the globe to locate and use. The collection confirms the deeply cosmopolitan sensibility possessed by many Indian travellers, and their... Indian Travel Writing is a new five-volume collection co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse. Hitherto, the paucity of readily avai... |
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Women's Travel Writing, 1750-1850
ISBN: 9780415320344 / Angielski / Twarda / 3094 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Romantic Period saw a massive advance in British colonial expansion, which was accompanied by a corresponding expansion in travel writings. These published letters, journals and books provided British readers with detailed accounts of new and exotic locations and thus engaged the reading public with expansionist enterprises. Covering the period of the French Revolution up until Victoria s ascendancy to the throne, and featuring journeys spanning France and central Europe, India, and South America, this collection brings together some of the most interesting travel accounts... The Romantic Period saw a massive advance in British colonial expansion, which was accompanied by a corresponding expansion in travel writings. The... |
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