Author: Pan American Union
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Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579584252
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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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.

Author: Anna Lorraine Guthrie
Publisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1478

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An author subject index to selected general interest periodicals of reference value in libraries.

Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1425

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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.

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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1466

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Author: Pan American Union
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Category : Pan-Americanism
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1174

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Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Pan American Union
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1154

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Author: Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736

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