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Voyages and visions : towards a cultural history of travel
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Voyages and visions : towards a cultural history of travel

Author: Jaś Elsner; Joan-Pau Rubiés
Publisher: London : Reaktion Books, 1999.
Series: Critical views.
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Voyages and visions.
London : Reaktion Books, 1999
(OCoLC)607117148
Online version:
Voyages and visions.
London : Reaktion Books, 1999
(OCoLC)607808888
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jaś Elsner; Joan-Pau Rubiés
ISBN: 1861890206 9781861890207
OCLC Number: 42310482
Description: 344 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: Notes on the Editors and ContributorsIntroduction --
Jas Elsner and Joan-Pau Rubies --
1. From Mt Ventoux to Mt Masaya: The Rise and Fall of Subjectivity in Early Modern Travel Narrative --
Jesús Carrillo --
2. Futility in the New World: Narratives of Travel in Sixteenth-Century America --
Joan-Pau Rubies --
3. 'Rubbing up against others': Montaigne on Pilgrimage --
Wes Williams --
4. The Philosopher as Traveller: Bernier's Orient --
Peter Burke --
5. Looking for Virgil's Tomb: The End of the Grand Tour and the Cosmopolitan Ideal in Europe --
Melissa Calaresu --
6. Precision and Curiosity in Scientific Travel: James Rennell and the Orientalist Geography of the New Imperial Age (1760-1830) --
Michael T. Bravo --
7. 'The Ghost in Chapultepec': Fanny Calderón de la Barca, William Prescott and Nineteenth-Century Mexican Travel Accounts --
Nigel Leask --
8. Partners: Guides and Sherpas in the Alps and Himalayas, 1850s-1950s --
Peter H. Hansen --
9. The European Journey in Postwar American Fiction and Film --
Kasia Boddy --
10. Per ardua ad astra: Authorial Choice and the Narrative of Interstellar Travel --
Edward James --
References --
Select Bibliography --
Acknowledgements --
Photographic Acknowledgements --
Index.
Series Title: Critical views.
Other Titles: Voyages & visions
Responsibility: edited by Jaś Elsner and Joan-Pau Rubies.
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