A traveller's year : 365 days of travel writing in diaries, journals and letters /: 365 days of travel writing in diaries, journals and letters. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Travis Elborough, Nick Rennison.
• Other Names: Elborough, Travis compiler.; Rennison, Nick 1955- compiler.
• Contents: Themes include; Journeys westward in America - diaries of people who travelled as emigrants to the West; Eighteenth and nineteenth-century travellers' encounters with the remains of earlier cultures eg; Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, pre-Columbian Americas; What you might call 'anthropological' traveling eg. Darwin on Tierra del Fuegians and a nineteenth; century Italian who was one of the first to travel into New Guinea; Travellers in first phase of imperial expansion eg. 17th century diaries of East India Company; merchants travelling to India and Japan; Travellers discovering part of their own country is as foreign to them as abroad eg Orwell going north; Entries which reflect classic eras of travel writing eg. the Thirties with Waugh, Robert Byron, Graham; Greene etc or Eighties with Bruce Chatwin; Religious sightseeing - nineteenth-century Europeans and Americans travelling to Holy Land; Travellers who hate travelling and fill their diaries with complaints about how bloody awful abroad is; and how dreadful the ways of foreigners are; People travelling to Britain from elsewhere and finding it a foreign country; Heroic deaths in the sun and on the ice; Scientific investigation; Aristocratic and artistic self-improvement (especially to Paris, Venice, and Rome); 18th century women travellers and wives of East India Company staff; Luxury leisure, package tours and backpacking.
• Publisher Details: London : Frances Lincoln Limited Publishers
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 910.4; Travelers' writings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781781012017
• Related ISBNs: 9780711236080
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• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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