The Mind Of The Traveler"The Mind of the Traveler is a panoramic excursion through these transformations of passage. Eric Leed explores the great travel traditions of the West: heroic travel, as in the adventures of Odysseus and the chivalric exploits of medieval knights; sacred travel, as in the holy pilgrimages of penance and purification; and philosophic travel in search of knowledge, wether social, as in Marco Polo's itineraries of the East, or scientific, as in Darwin's discoveries aboard the Beagle". --Publisher. |
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Travel as Experience | 5 |
The Social Effects of Travel | 14 |
The History of Travel and the History of Culture | 20 |
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Abimalech adventure Alfred Russel Wallace ancient Arnold van Gennep arrival assumed become Boswell boundaries Calogrenant century characteristic civilization Claude Lévi-Strauss common conception condition context created cultural Darwin defined departure detachment Enkidu Epic of Gilgamesh epigraph quote established European expedition experience fame freedom Freya Stark Fynes Moryson gender Gilgamesh groups heroic journey history of travel holy human Ibid identified identity implicit individual James Boswell king Kinglake knight land live London lord male means medieval mobility modern moral motion Nancy Munn native nature nomadic objects observation Odysseus original passage passenger Paul Theroux person philosophical travel pilgrimage pilgrims prostitution reality relations Renaissance reproduction ritual sacred sense separate seventeenth sexual social society of travelers space species status Strabo stranger structure territory things tions tourist trade traditional trans transformations trav travel literature traveler's traveling societies voyage wandering women York Ywain