A General Collection Of The Best And Most Interesting Voyages And Travels In All Parts Of The World

A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels

Hardcover reprint of the original 1810-12 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Pinkerton, John. A General Collection of The Best And Most Interesting Voyages And Travels, In All Parts of The World; Many of Which Are Now First Translated Into English. Digested On A New Plan, Volume 1. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Pinkerton, John. A General Collection of The Best And Most Interesting Voyages And Travels, In All Parts of The World; Many of Which Are Now First Translated Into English. Digested On A New Plan, Volume 1. Philadelphia Kimber And Conrad; Etc., 1810-12. Subject: Voyages And Travels

Literature of Travel and Exploration

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.

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