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Literature of travel and exploration : an encyclopedia / Jennifer Speake, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; London : Fitzroy Dearborn, [2003]Copyright date: c 2003Description: 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 157958425X (Volume 1)
  • 9781579584252 (Volume 1)
  • 1579584241 (Volume 2)
  • 9781579584245 (Volume 2)
  • 1579584403 (Volume 3)
  • 9781579584405 (Volume 3)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 910.403 LIT 22
Contents:
Volume 1. A-F -- Volume 2. G-P -- Volume 3. R-Z.
Summary: "Connoisseurs of travel writing and those planning a trip will delight in this new encyclopedia. Entries describe journeys, voyages, and routes; world travelers and their writings in diaries, letters, logbooks, and postcards; remarkable destinations; geographers and cartographers; and contemporary travel writers and their works. Author entries include biographical profiles. Each entry is complete with a list of references and further readings. Volume one contains two listings that are useful for browsing the three-volume set -- an alphabetical listing of entries and a thematic list of entries. Volume three has a bibliography of all works and articles referenced in the entries as well as a general index."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Reference (NB) Reference (NB) Central Library Second Floor Baccah 910.403 LIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan Volume 1 000001773
Reference (NB) Reference (NB) Central Library Second Floor Baccah 910.403 LIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan Volume 2 000001769
Reference (NB) Reference (NB) Central Library Second Floor Baccah 910.403 LIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan Volume 3 000001768
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Volume 1. A-F -- Volume 2. G-P -- Volume 3. R-Z.

"Connoisseurs of travel writing and those planning a trip will delight in this new encyclopedia. Entries describe journeys, voyages, and routes; world travelers and their writings in diaries, letters, logbooks, and postcards; remarkable destinations; geographers and cartographers; and contemporary travel writers and their works. Author entries include biographical profiles. Each entry is complete with a list of references and further readings. Volume one contains two listings that are useful for browsing the three-volume set -- an alphabetical listing of entries and a thematic list of entries. Volume three has a bibliography of all works and articles referenced in the entries as well as a general index."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.

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