Travel Fact and Travel Fiction

Travel Fact and Travel Fiction

Author: Z.R.W.M. von Martels

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1994-08-01

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 9004247092

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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.


History of Technology Volume 1

History of Technology Volume 1

Author: A. Rupert Hall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1350017353

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The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.