Overview
This volume contains 18 articles by different authors on examples of travel writing from Classical Antiquity (Herodotus) until the first half of the 19th century. Central themes are fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery and observation. Herodotus, Egeria, Rubruck, Marco Polo, Columbus, Joachim Du Bellay, Busbequius, Gryphius, Goethe and Dickens are discussed, among others.
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Author: Z.R.W.M. von Martels
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 55
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.638kg
ISBN: 9789004101128
ISBN 10: 9004101128
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 01 August 1994
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
Plates Preface Contributors Introduction: The Eye and the Mind's Eye 1. The Art of Herodotus and the Margins of the World, Detlev Fehling 2. Travel Descriptions in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, M.A. Harder 3. Alexander de Great and Ancient Travel Stories, W.J. Aerts 4. Egeria de voyager, or the Technology of Remote Sensing in Late Antiquity, Andrew Palmer 5. William of Rubruck in the Mongol Empire: Perception and Prejudices, Peter Jackson 6. Marco Polo's Voyages: The Conflict between Confirmation and Observation, Martin Gosman 7. Between Mandeville and Columbus: Tvoyage by Joos van Ghistele, Istvan Bejczy 8. Travel Fact and Travel Fiction in the Voyages of Columbus, Valerie I.J. Flint 9. Different Readings of Hanno's Voyage from the Renaissance to the Seventeent Century- From Pure Erudition to Ideological Debate, Monique Mund-Dopchie 10. Writing in Exile: Joachim Du Bellay, Rome, and Renaissance France, G. Hugo Tucker 11. The Colouring Effec Attic Style and Stoicism in Busbequius's Turkish Letters, Zweder von Martels 13. Barlacus's Description of the Dutch Colony in Brazil, A.J.E. Harmsen 14. Gryphius in Italy, Peter Skrine 15.The Traveller-Author ad his Role in Seventeenth-Century German Travel Accounts, Jill Bepler 16.Thomas Penson: Precursor of the Sentimental Traveller, C.D. van Strien 17. Goethe's and Stolberg's Italian Journeys and the Romanitc Ideology of Art, Roger Paulin 18. The Wheel of Time is Rolling for an End', Jan H.A. Lokin Index
Reviews
'.. .ist der Band eine interessante, Kurzweilige und gut lesbare Lekt]re.'<br>Astrid Winterhalder, Anthropos, 1997.<br>' erhdlt der Leser einen Eindruck von der Vielfalt sowohl des Gegenstandes als auch der Aufgaben, die mit seiner Erforschung verbunden sind.'<br>Folker Reichert, Archiv f]r Kulturgeschichte, 2000.<br>
. ..ist der Band eine interessante, Kurzweilige und gut lesbare Lekture. Astrid Winterhalder, Anthropos , 1997. erhalt der Leser einen Eindruck von der Vielfalt sowohl des Gegenstandes als auch der Aufgaben, die mit seiner Erforschung verbunden sind. Folker Reichert, Archiv fur Kulturgeschichte , 2000.
Author Information
Zweder von Martels (1954) is Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Department of Classics of the University of Groningen. He has published a full length monograph on the 16th-century Flemish humanist Augerius Gislenius Busbequius (1989). His edition of the Latin letters of Busbequius was published in 1994. He is the editor of Alchemy Revisited (Brill) in 1989.
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