Travel Writing 1700-1830
An Anthology
Editor: Elizabeth A.Bohls
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), 2008
Paperback, 560 pages
Size: 196x129 mm
ISBN: 9780199537525
ISBN-10: 0199537526
List price: £12.99
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Travel Writing 1700-1830
An Anthology. By the end of the eighteenth century, British travellers had fanned out to every corner of the world, driven by widely varying motives: scientific curiosity, commerce, colonization, diplomacy, exploration, and tourism. In letters, journals, and books, travellers wrote at first-hand of exotic lands and beautiful scenery, and of encounters with strange peoples and wildlife. This anthology brings together the best writing from authors such as Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Olaudah Equiano, Mungo Park, Maria Nugent and many others, to provide a comprehensive selection from this emerging literary

