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Des livres à la découverte du monde : de Marco Polo à la Croisière jaune.
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ISBN: 9782842304584 2842304586 Year: 2012 Publisher: Paris Hoëbeke


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De wereld in vogelvlucht : reizen en reisboeken door de eeuwen heen
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ISBN: 9789067076623 Year: 2013 Publisher: Amsterdam Bataafsche Leeuw


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Travel : a literary history
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ISBN: 9781851243389 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University. Bodleian Library

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No previous generation has ever travelled so energetically or so obsessively as ours, nor has travel writing ever been so much in fashion as it is now. But behind the self-conscious literary artistry of today's narratives there lies a rich and fascinating history of travel writing, stretching back over several thousand years. Travel writing has emerged from migration, war, exploration, trade, conquest, pilgrimage, science, and poetic longing. But when they recorded their travels, the military commanders of Greece and Rome, the navigators of the Age of Discovery, the diplomats and missionaries of the seventeenth century, the dilettantes who set out on the Grand Tour, the romantic travellers and the scientists of the nineteenth century all had one thing in common: they were re-imagining the world, re-interpreting it in their own minds and for their readers. This is the first general survey of the entire history of travel literature, with illustrations reproduced from manuscripts and books in the Bodleian Library's collections and other sources.


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The Routledge research companion to travel writing
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ISBN: 9781472417923 9781315613710 1317041194 1315613719 1317041208 9781317041191 9781317041184 1317041186 9781317041207 9781032090788 Year: 2020 Publisher: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves. The volume adopts a thematic approach, with each contributor considering a specific aspect of travel writing – a recurrent motif, an organising principle or a literary form. All of the essays include a discussion of representative travel texts, to ensure that the volume as a whole represents a broad historical and geographical range of travel writing. Together, the 25 essays and the editors’ introduction offer a comprehensive and authoritative reflection of the state of travel writing criticism and lay the ground for future developments.

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