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ByZ. R. W. M. von Martels
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“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.” –James Bryce
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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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