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...
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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...
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; First Printing Cornell Paperbacks. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Maps by Susan Danforth, map curator, and monochrome prints reproduced as illustrations by Richard Hurley. Clean and unmarked glossy, black and gray wraps, whisper of wear to some extremities; tight, solid and square binding; internals as new. These exotic travel writings in Europe from late antiquity to the age of discovery illustrate the fundamental human desire to change places, if only in the imagination. The author follows the path of travel writers through twelve-centuuries. She looks at the works by pilgrims, crusaders, merchants, discoverers, even armchair fantasists such as Mandeville, as well as writings by Marco Polo, Columbus, and Walter Raleigh. 285 pages with References and Index. 6 x 9 inches. 1991, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London.
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