Fifty Years in Ceylon
Title | Fifty Years in Ceylon PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Skinner |
Publisher | London ; Calcutta : W.H. Allen |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Literature of Travel and Exploration
Title | Literature of Travel and Exploration PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Speake |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1425 |
Release | 2014-05-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1135456631 |
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.
The Athenaeum
Title | The Athenaeum PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 864 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Arts |
ISBN |
Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Title | Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Title | Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 926 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | |
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The Athenaeum
Title | The Athenaeum PDF eBook |
Author | James Silk Buckingham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 918 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Tropical Agriculturist
Title | Tropical Agriculturist PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 818 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | |
ISBN |