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- catalog abstract ""A much-needed response to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as an historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes and encounters in world history. The contributors to the volume include historians of art and of science, anthropologists, literary critics and mainstream cultural historians. The subjects of their essays include European explorations of South America, India, Mexico and the South Seas; mountaineering in the Himalayas; science fiction; American post-war travel fiction; and space travel. Voyages and Visions is truly interdisciplinary; it is also essential reading for anyone interested in travel and travel literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Voyages & visions".
- catalog contributor b10964930.
- catalog contributor b10964931.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""A much-needed response to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as an historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes and encounters in world history. The contributors to the volume include historians of art and of science, anthropologists, literary critics and mainstream cultural historians. The subjects of their essays include European explorations of South America, India, Mexico and the South Seas; mountaineering in the Himalayas; science fiction; American post-war travel fiction; and space travel. Voyages and Visions is truly interdisciplinary; it is also essential reading for anyone interested in travel and travel literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-329) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Jaś Elsner and Joan-Pau Rubiés -- From Mt Ventoux to Mt Masaya : the rise and fall of subjectivity in early modern travel narrative / Jesús Carrillo -- Futility in the New World : narratives of travel in sixteenth-century America / Joan-Pau Rubiés -- 'Rubbing up against others' : Montaigne on pilgrimage / Wes Williams -- The philosopher as traveller : Bernier's Orient / Peter Burke -- Looking for Virgil's tomb : the end of the grand tour and the cosmopolitan ideal in Europe / Melissa Calaresu.".
- catalog description "Precision and curiosity in scientific travel : James Rennell and the Orientalist geography of the new Imperial Age (1760-1830) / Michael T. Bravo -- 'The ghost in Chapultepec' : Fanny Calderón de la Barca, William Prescott and nineteenth-century Mexican travel accounts / Nigel Leask -- Partners : guides and Sherpas in the Alps and Himalayas, 1850s-1950s / Peter H. Hansen -- The European journey in postwar American fiction and film / Kasia Boddy -- Per ardua ad astra : authorial choice and the narrative of interstellar travel / Edward James.".
- catalog extent "vii, 344 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Voyages and visions.".
- catalog identifier "1861890206".
- catalog isFormatOf "Voyages and visions.".
- catalog isPartOf "Critical views".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Reaktion Books,".
- catalog relation "Voyages and visions.".
- catalog subject "G156 .V69 1999".
- catalog subject "Travel History.".
- catalog subject "Travel in literature.".
- catalog subject "Travelers' writings.".
- catalog subject "Voyages and travels History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Jaś Elsner and Joan-Pau Rubiés -- From Mt Ventoux to Mt Masaya : the rise and fall of subjectivity in early modern travel narrative / Jesús Carrillo -- Futility in the New World : narratives of travel in sixteenth-century America / Joan-Pau Rubiés -- 'Rubbing up against others' : Montaigne on pilgrimage / Wes Williams -- The philosopher as traveller : Bernier's Orient / Peter Burke -- Looking for Virgil's tomb : the end of the grand tour and the cosmopolitan ideal in Europe / Melissa Calaresu.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Precision and curiosity in scientific travel : James Rennell and the Orientalist geography of the new Imperial Age (1760-1830) / Michael T. Bravo -- 'The ghost in Chapultepec' : Fanny Calderón de la Barca, William Prescott and nineteenth-century Mexican travel accounts / Nigel Leask -- Partners : guides and Sherpas in the Alps and Himalayas, 1850s-1950s / Peter H. Hansen -- The European journey in postwar American fiction and film / Kasia Boddy -- Per ardua ad astra : authorial choice and the narrative of interstellar travel / Edward James.".
- catalog title "Voyages & visions".
- catalog title "Voyages and visions : towards a cultural history of travel / edited by Jaś Elsner and Joan-Pau Rubiés.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".