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Travel Fact and Travel Fiction
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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....
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01 August 1994

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.
Price: $174.00
Pages: 246
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publication Date:
01 August 1994
ISBN: 9789004101128
Format: Other
"...ist der Band eine interessante, Kurzweilige und gut lesbare Lektüre."
Astrid Winterhalder, Anthropos, 1997.
"…erhält der Leser einen Eindruck von der Vielfalt sowohl des Gegenstandes als auch der Aufgaben, die mit seiner Erforschung verbunden sind."
Folker Reichert, Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 2000.
Astrid Winterhalder, Anthropos, 1997.
"…erhält der Leser einen Eindruck von der Vielfalt sowohl des Gegenstandes als auch der Aufgaben, die mit seiner Erforschung verbunden sind."
Folker Reichert, Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 2000.
Zweder von Martels (1954) is Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Department of Classics of the University of Groningen. He has published a full length monograph on the 16th-century Flemish humanist Augerius Gislenius Busbequius (1989). His edition of the Latin letters of Busbequius was published in 1994. He is the editor of Alchemy Revisited (Brill) in 1989.