Travel Fact and Travel Fiction

Studies on Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery and Observation in Travel Writing
Herausgeber: Martels, Z R W M von

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Produktbeschreibung

"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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill / Brill NV
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 164mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9789004101128
• ISBN-10: 9004101128
• Artikelnr.: 20973760

Autorenporträt

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.