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  • TRAVEL WRITING
    CARL THOMPSON
    The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary genre. Carl Thompson offers a clear and concise overview of the long history of travel writing from the ancient world to the present day. Considering a wide range of primary sources from Sir Walter Raleigh to Jenny Diski, the extensively updated second edition: i...

    $580.00

  • WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITINGS IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, PART I VOL 2
    CARL THOMPSON / FRANCESCA SAGGINI / LOIS CHABER
    Continuing the series on Women's Travel Writings, this two-part collection presents some fascinating tales of North Africa and the Middle East. Part I includes three separate volumes that include the writings of Volume 1: Sarah Wilson, The Fruits of Enterprise Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia (1825); Volume 2 Barbara Hofland, The Young Pilgrim, or Alfred C...

    $1,480.00

  • WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITINGS IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, PART I VOL 3
    CARL THOMPSON / FRANCESCA SAGGINI / LOIS CHABER
    Continuing the series on Women's Travel Writings, this two-part collection presents some fascinating tales of North Africa and the Middle East. Part I includes three separate volumes that include the writings of Volume 1: Sarah Wilson, The Fruits of Enterprise Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia (1825); Volume 2 Barbara Hofland, The Young Pilgrim, or Alfred C...

    $5,100.00

  • WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITINGS IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, PART I VOL 1
    CARL THOMPSON / FRANCESCA SAGGINI / LOIS CHABER
    Continuing the series on Women's Travel Writings, this two-part collection presents some fascinating tales of North Africa and the Middle East.  Part I includes three separate volumes that include the writings of Volume 1: Sarah Wilson, The Fruits of Enterprise Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia (1825); Volume 2 Barbara Hofland, The Young Pilgrim, or Alfred ...

    $1,480.00

  • WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITINGS IN INDIA 1777–1854
    CARL THOMPSON
    The ‘memsahibs’ of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public, however, are the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century precursors to the memsahibs of the Victorian and Edwardian era. Yet Brit...

    $1,480.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO TRAVEL WRITING
    CARL THOMPSON
    As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries; travel writing is now a crucial focus for discu...

    $1,380.00

  • SHIPWRECK IN ART AND LITERATURE
    CARL THOMPSON
    Tales of shipwreck have always fascinated audiences, and as a result there is a rich literature of suffering at sea, and an equally rich tradition of visual art depicting this theme. Exploring the shifting semiotics and symbolism of shipwreck, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume provide a history of a major literary and artistic motif as they consider how depictions hav...

    $1,380.00