The Art of Travel: Essays on Travel Writing

by Philip Dodd and Philip Dodds

Book Overview

First published in 1982. The Art of Travel is the first collection of critical essays to be devoted to British travel writing. It attempts to give a sense of the wealth of such writing, to map some of its forms and conventions and, implicitly, to claim a place for travel writing in any revised definition of literature. For this collection, travel includes sea voyages, European tours, commissioned enquiries into social conditions, and urban writing;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138963860
• ISBN13: 9781138963863
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"