Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192840517 ISBN 13: 9780192840516

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

By the end of the eighteenth century, British travelers had fanned out to every corner of the world, driven by widely varying motives: scientific curiosity, commerce, colonization, diplomacy, exploration, and tourism. In letters, journals, and books, travelers wrote first-hand of exotic lands and beautiful scenery, and of encounters with strange peoples and wildlife. This anthology brings together the best writing from authors such as Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Olaudah Equiano, Mungo Park, Maria Nugent and many others, to provide a comprehensive selection from this emerging literary genre.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth Bohls is the author of Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 (1995). Ian Duncan has edited editions by Conan Doyle, John Buchan, and Walter Scott for Oxford World's Classics and is the author of Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (2005).

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0192840517
• ISBN 13: 9780192840516
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560
• Editor: Bohls Elizabeth A., Duncan Ian