Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index
Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index

Author: Jennifer Speake

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 9781579584405

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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.

Masterplots II.: Ter-Z
Masterplots II.: Ter-Z

Author: Frank Northen Magill

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13:

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Over 770 articles summarize and evaluate poems written between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries.

Masterplots II.
Masterplots II.

Author: Philip K. Jason

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13:

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Comprehensive coverage of the most commonly studied poems written in or translated into English.

Walford's Concise Guide to Reference Material
Walford's Concise Guide to Reference Material

Author: Albert John Walford

Publisher: Library Association Publishing (UK)

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13:

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This is a shortened version of the three volume Walford's Guide to Reference Material, 5th edition: Volume 1, Science and Technology (1989), Volume 2, Social and historical sciences, philosophy and religion (1990), and Volume 3, Generalia, language and literature, the arts (1991). There are more than 3,000 entries, forming an updated compilation of what are considered to be the basic items in the main volumes, plus some more recent material up to April 1992.