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HOOPER:THE TOURIST'S GAZE P/B (R)
Glenn Hooper
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Description for HOOPER:THE TOURIST'S GAZE P/B (R)
Paperback. Num Pages: 268 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 469.
Travel literature has been described by Jonathan Raban as literature's red-light district . It defies peoples' beliefs, confuses expectations, crosses disciplinary boundaries and is linked to ethnography, journalism and biography. Yet for all that has managed to remain not only a visible but also an increasingly popular literary genre. This anthology makes an entertaining and insightful contribution to this engaging field. It includes extracts from well known writers, such as Thackeray, Boll and Chesterton, but also presents less familiar figures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The seventy pieces collected here both ... Read more
Travel literature has been described by Jonathan Raban as literature's red-light district . It defies peoples' beliefs, confuses expectations, crosses disciplinary boundaries and is linked to ethnography, journalism and biography. Yet for all that has managed to remain not only a visible but also an increasingly popular literary genre. This anthology makes an entertaining and insightful contribution to this engaging field. It includes extracts from well known writers, such as Thackeray, Boll and Chesterton, but also presents less familiar figures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The seventy pieces collected here both ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
268
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781859183236
SKU
V9781859183236
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99-10
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