Encyclopedia of Travel Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780874369403)

In the Encyclopedia of Travel Literature, an expert sketches the lives and achievements of explorers, adventurers, novelists, and poets from l450 to the present and describes, critiques, and quotes from their works.

Before visual media, readers learned about foreign countries, exotic realms, other peoples, and intrepid adventurers through travel writers. Here you'll read about Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, who died in 1817 on his return trip from Mecca and was buried still disguised as a Muslim; George Sand, who scandalized Europe by illegally wearing trousers and wrote a singularly interesting travel book; and Lord Byron, who fictionalized his Grand Tour in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

Author: Christopher K. Brown
ISBN-10: 0874369401
ISBN-13: 9780874369403
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Language: English
Published: 09/11/2000
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 10.28h x 7.28w x 0.82d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/2000 pg. 844
Choice 03/01/2001 pg. 1241
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2001 pg. 499
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2001 pg. 55