Travel Fact and Travel Fiction: Studies on Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery, and Observation in Travel WritingZ. R. W. M. von Martels BRILL, 1994 - 246 pagina's "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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The Art of Herodotus and the Margins of the World | 1 |
Travel Descriptions in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius | 16 |
Alexander the Great and Ancient Travel Stories | 30 |
Egeria the Voyager | 39 |
Travel Fact and Travel Fiction in the Voyages of Columbus | 94 |
Different Readings of Hannos Voyage from the Renaissance | 111 |
Joachim Du Bellay | 120 |
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