Voyages and travels, or, Scenes in many lands
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 1887
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : Leo de Colange
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Page : 386 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Geography
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Author : The Times, London. Book club
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Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Best books
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Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781579584245
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 : William H.G. Kingston
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 1862
Category : Voyages and travels
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Author : Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Page : 684 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 1916
Category : English literature
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Author : Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Page : 754 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 1917
Category : English literature
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Author : Portland Public Library (Portland, Me.)
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Page : 442 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
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Author : George Peabody Library
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Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Dictionary catalogs
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Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Classic Books Company
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Italy
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