Encyclopedia of Travel Literature

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Bloomsbury Academic, Sep 11, 2000 - Literary Criticism - 272 pages

In the Encyclopedia of Travel Literature, an expert sketches the lives and achievements of explorers, adventurers, novelists, and poets from l450 to the present and describes, critiques, and quotes from their works.

Before visual media, readers learned about foreign countries, exotic realms, other peoples, and intrepid adventurers through travel writers. Here you'll read about Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, who died in 1817 on his return trip from Mecca and was buried still disguised as a Muslim; George Sand, who scandalized Europe by illegally wearing trousers and wrote a singularly interesting travel book; and Lord Byron, who fictionalized his Grand Tour in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

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ADAMS DOUGLAS
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BAUDRILLARD JEAN
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BISHOP ELIZABETH
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About the author (2000)

Christopher K. Brown is assistant professor of English literature at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Bibliographic information

TitleEncyclopedia of Travel Literature
AuthorChristopher K. Brown
Editionillustrated
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 2000
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedOct 6, 2008
ISBN0874369401, 9780874369403
Length272 pages
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