Travel: A Literary History
by Whitfield, Peter
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- Hardcover
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Bodleian Library, Oxford 2011. 24.0 x 16.0cms, 304pp b/w illusts very good+ hardback & dustwrapper (owner's gift inscription) This book has 150 passages from Marco polo & Sir John Mandeville through to Joseph Conrad and Henry James. The chapters are: the prehistory of travel writing; the age of discovery; the 17th century, the non-conquerors: the 18th century, travelling for knowledge; the 19th century, the theatre of the world; the 20th cnetury, no foreign land.
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- Bookseller
- THE CROSS Art + Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 172792
- Title
- Travel: A Literary History
- Author
- Whitfield, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, Oxford 2011
- Keywords
- tourist explorers grand tour
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THE CROSS Art + Books
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales
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THE CROSS ART + BOOKS
We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
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