Literature of travel and exploration :
Literature of travel and exploration : an encyclopedia /
Jennifer Speake, editor.
- 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
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.
157958425X (Volume 1) 9781579584252 (Volume 1) 1579584241 (Volume 2) 9781579584245 (Volume 2) 1579584403 (Volume 3) 9781579584405 (Volume 3)
Travel writing--Encyclopedias.
Voyages and travels--Encyclopedias.
--Reading book
910.403 / LIT
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.
157958425X (Volume 1) 9781579584252 (Volume 1) 1579584241 (Volume 2) 9781579584245 (Volume 2) 1579584403 (Volume 3) 9781579584405 (Volume 3)
Travel writing--Encyclopedias.
Voyages and travels--Encyclopedias.
--Reading book
910.403 / LIT