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Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Collection of Voyages and Travels ...
Author: The World Displayed, Or, A Collection of Voyages and Travels
Author: The World Displayed; Or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, Selected from the Writers of All Nations. ... Embellished with Cuts. [With an Introduction by Samuel Johnson.] The Fourth Edition, Corrected
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Author: The World Displayed; Or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels
Author: The World Displayed; Or, A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, Selected from the Writers of All Nations
Author: Voyages and Travels Mainly During the 16th and 17th Centuries ...
Author: Thomas SeccombePublisher:
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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“A” General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World
Author: John PinkertonPublisher:
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Voyages and Visions
Author: Jaś ElsnerPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861890207
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes and encounters in world history. The contributors to this collection include historians of art and of science, anthropologists, literary critics and mainstream cultural historians. Their essays encompass a challenging range of subjects, including the explorations of South America, India and Mexico; mountaineering in the Himalayas; space travel; science fiction; and American post-war travel fiction. Voyages and Visions is truly interdisciplinary, and essential reading for anyone interested in travel writing. With essays by Kasia Boddy, Michael Bravo, Peter Burke, Melissa Calaresu, Jesus Maria Carillo Castillo, Peter Hansen, Edward James, Nigel Leask, Joan-Pau Rubies and Wes Williams.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels
Author: Robert KerrPublisher:
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James
Author: Colleen M. FranklinPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773589457
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
While Thomas James is not widely known today, this was not always the case: his 1633 publication The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James was, until the early nineteenth century, the British public's primary source of information about what we now know as northern Canada. The account of his attempt to find the Northwest Passage and the winter he spent on an island in James Bay made his name synonymous with exploration and the north. Over the centuries James's narrative was used to compile travel books and to compose philosophical treatises, histories, children's books, as well as poetry and novels - most notably, it influenced Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Colleen Franklin's critical edition of the Voyage is the first since 1894. Her introduction details how James engages with both medieval and early modern perceptions of the north as well as the early modern imperative to base knowledge on observation and experience, and offers a history of the text's reception from its first publication into the nineteenth century. An invaluable reference on the early European exploration of North America, The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James sheds new light on the representation of the Canadian north.