Encyclopedia of Travel Literature

by Christopher K. Brown

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874369401
• ISBN13: 9780874369403
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 10.3"