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In the Encyclopedia of Travel Literature , an expert sketches the lives and achievements of explorers, adventurers, novelists, and poets from l450 to the present and describes, critiques, and quotes from their works. Before visual media, readers learned about foreign countries, exotic realms, other peoples, and intrepid adventurers through travel writers. Here you'll read about Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, who died in 1817 on his return trip from Mecca and was buried still disguised as a Muslim; George Sand, who scandalized ...

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Encyclopedia of Travel Literature 2000, ABC-CLIO, New York

ISBN-13: 9780874369403

Hardcover