A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel
Author : Edward Godfrey Cox
Publisher :
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN :
A Reference Guide To The Literature Of Travel Vol I
Author : Edward Godfrey Cox
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781013648441
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel: Great Britain
Author : Edward Godfrey Cox
Publisher :
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN :
Book Description
Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781579584405
Book Description
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.
A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel: The old world
Author : Edward Godfrey Cox
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Book Description
English Literature, Volume 1
Author : Louis A. Landa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1400877326
Book Description
This is the first of two volumes which will make available in convenient form the annual bibliographies of 18th century scholarship published for the past 25 years in the Philological Quarterly. Volume 1 includes the years 1926-1938. By means of lithography the original issues are exactly reproduced with retention of all critical annotations. Originally published in 1950. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Americans: The National Experience
Author : Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2010-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0307756475
Book Description
This second volume in "The Americans" trilogy deals with the crucial period of American history from the Revolution to the Civil War. Here we meet the people who shaped, and were shaped by, the American experience—the versatile New Englanders, the Transients and the Boosters. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.
A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 2816 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category :
ISBN : 0520321871
Book Description
Collected Books
Author : Allen Ahearn
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 2013-02
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1883060141
Book Description
An introduction to and advice on book collecting with a glossary of terms and tips on how to identify first editions and estimated values for over 20,000 collectible books published in English (including translations) over the last three centuries-about half are literary titles in the broadest sense (novels, poetry, plays, mysteries, science fiction, and children's books); and the other half are non-fiction (Americana, travel and exploration, finance, cookbooks, color plate, medicine, science, photography, Mormonism, sports, et al).
Unpathed Waters
Author : Robert R Cawley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1136998292
Book Description
First Published in 1968. The following studies are based to a considerable extent upon the evidence presented in a former volume, The Voyagers and Elizabethan Drama. The author draws the conclusions and inferences for which the proof is to be found in the earlier publication. The studies culminate to estimate how the rich material so abundantly provided by the voyagers was utilized by some of the characteristic literary figures.
