Surveying exotic travel writing in Europe from late antiquity to the age of discover, The Witness and the Other World illustrates the fundamental human desire to change places, if only in the imagination. Mary B. Campbell looks at works by pilgrims, crusaders, merchants, discoverers, even armchair fantasists such as Mandeville, as well as the writings of Marco Polo, Columbus, and Walter Raleigh. According to Campbell, these travel accounts are exotic because they bear witness to alienated experiences; European travelers, ...
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Surveying exotic travel writing in Europe from late antiquity to the age of discover, The Witness and the Other World illustrates the fundamental human desire to change places, if only in the imagination. Mary B. Campbell looks at works by pilgrims, crusaders, merchants, discoverers, even armchair fantasists such as Mandeville, as well as the writings of Marco Polo, Columbus, and Walter Raleigh. According to Campbell, these travel accounts are exotic because they bear witness to alienated experiences; European travelers, while claiming to relate fact, were often passing on monstrous projections. She contends that their writing not only documented but also made possible the conquest of the peoples whom she travelers described, and she shows how travel literature contributed to the genesis of the modern novel and the modern life sciences.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x0x9; Cornell University Press, 1988; no later printings indicated; x, 285pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; minor wear to edges of navy blue cloth boards, silver foil titling remains bright and bold; text very good throughout. Minor wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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1st edn. 8vo. Original silver lettered blue cloth (page edges lightly spotted-otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover). Pp. x + 285, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Collectible First Edition Near Fine Hardcover Near Fine Mylar Dust Jacket Clean 285 pp NOT a library copy NOT Price clipped Except for some light fade spots on the outer edges of the boards this book is fine. No writing in the book No signatures or underlines. Fascinating study of Medieval Spiritual and Wonder travel and pilgrimage, From Christian woman like Egeria travel to Jerusalem and Adamnan, Saint Columba's successor to Giants and pigmies in Mandeville and even Raleigh and the Earthly Paradise and El Dorado Maps illus. See our Scans. Three Geese In Flight Celtic Myth since 1977.
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