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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | PR 1309.T73 T73 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5191678 |
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PR 1309 .S5 D64 1967 The Penguin book of English short stories. | PR 1309 .S5 R85 2017 Ruins & other stories / | PR 1309 .T73 L66 1999 Lonely planet unpacked : travel disaster stories / | PR 1309.T73 T73 2005 Travel writing, 1700-1830 : an anthology / | PR 1330 .W5 1972 "I...": an anthology of diarists / | PR 1342 .F6 1939 The pursuit of poetry : a book of letters about poetry written by English poets, 1550-1930 / | PR 1365 .S7 1963 v.3 The Spectator, |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxx-xxxv).
Contents; Introduction; Note on the Texts; Select Bibliography; Chronology; TRAVEL WRITING; PART I. EUROPE AND ASIA MINOR; 1. CLASSICAL GROUND; 2. DEBATING THE TOUR; 3. SOCIETY AND SENTIMENT; 4. REVOLUTIONARY TOURISM; 5. OFF THE BEATEN TRACK; PART II. THE BRITISH ISLES; 1. THE STATE OF THE NATION; 2. PICTURESQUE TOURISM; 3. SCOTLAND; PART III. AFRICA; 1. THE SLAVE TRADE, 1732-1789; 2. INFANT COLONY, 1794; 3. EXPLORERS, 1790-1822; PART IV. THE CARIBBEAN; 1. NATURAL HISTORY AND AESTHETICS; 2. WORKING TRAVELLERS; 3. PLANTERS; 4. LADIES; PART V. NORTH AMERICA; 1. SURVEYORS AND EXPLORERS.
2. MANNERS AND MORALSPART VI. AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC; 1. PRIVATEERS, 1680-1744; 2. THE COOK EXPEDITIONS, 1768-1780; 3. COLONIZING NEW SOUTH WALES, 1788-1791; 4. THE COMING OF THE MISSIONARIES, 1796-1824; Explanatory Notes.
By the end of the eighteenth century, British travellers had fanned out to every corner of the world, driven by widely varying motives: scientific curiosity, commerce, colonization, diplomacy, exploration, and tourism. In letters, journals, and books, travellers wrote at first-hand of exotic lands and beautiful scenery, and of encounters with strange peoples and wildlife. This anthology brings together the best writing from authors such as Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Olaudah. Equiano, Mungo Park, Maria Nugent and many others, to provide a comprehensive selection from this emerging liter.
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