Travel Fact and Travel Fiction

Travel Fact and Travel Fiction PDF Author: Z. R. W. M. von Martels
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004101128
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Book Description
"Travel Fact and Travel Fiction" contains 18 articles by different authors on important examples of travel writing from Classical Antiquity (Herodotus) until the first half of the nineteenth century. Discussed are among others Herodotus, Egeria, Rubruck, Marco Polo, Columbus, Joachim Du Bellay, Busbequius, Gryphius, Goethe and Dickens. Central themes are fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery and observation.