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ByZ. R. W. M. von Martels
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“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.” –Edward Morgan
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|Travel Fact and Travel Fiction| contains 18 articles by different authors on important examples of travel writing from Classical Antiquity (Herodotus) until the first half of the nineteenth century. Discussed are among others Herodotus, Egeria, Rubruck, Marco Polo, Columbus, Joachim Du Bellay, Busbequius, Gryphius, Goethe and Dickens. Central themes are fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery and observation.
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