By Jennifer Speake

ISBN-10: 1579582478

ISBN-13: 9781579582470

Containing greater than six hundred entries, this useful source provides all points of commute writing. There are entries on locations and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi desolate tract, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk path, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella poultry, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), tools of delivery and kinds of trip (balloon, camel, grand travel, searching and massive online game expeditions, pilgrimage, area go back and forth and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New global chronicles, postcards), businesses and societies (East India corporation, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and concerns and subject matters (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism).

For a whole record of entries and individuals, a beneficiant collection of pattern entries, and extra, stopover at the Literature of shuttle and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

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