Authors:Z. Von Martels, Zwender Von Martels,
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: travel, fiction, studies, writing, history, brill, intellectual, observation, scholarly, fact, literary, tradition, discovery
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $147.00
ISBN-10: 9004101128
ISBN-13: 9789004101128

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.