Voyages And Travels Book

Language: en
Pages: 464

Voyages and travels in the years 1809, 1810 and 1811, containing observations on Gibraltar, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Scrigo and Turkey. [on large paper, cm.28.].

Author(s): John Galt

Type: Book
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Published: 1812
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Publisher: Unknown

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Language: en
Pages: 844

Bookseller's catalogues

Author(s): Priestley and Weale

Type: Book
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Published: 1815
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Publisher: Unknown

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Language: en

All Around the World

Author(s): William Ainsworth

Categories: Voyages and travels

Type: Book
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Published: 1860
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Publisher: Unknown

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Language: en
Pages: 516

Literature of Travel and Exploration: A to F

Author(s): Jennifer Speake

Categories: Travel

Type: Book
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Published: 2003
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.