“Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology” (Oxford): Introduction essay

24/07/2024
“Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology” (Oxford): Introduction essay

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Since remote antiquity, for all kinds of reasons, people have left home and hit the road. Couriers and diplomats, merchants and worshippers crisscrossed the Mesopotamian triangle well before 3000 BC. Even tourists, travelling for pleasure, left graffiti on the Pyramids by 1500 BC. Very early in history, then, travel and writing converged. Homer’s Odyssey, the…

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