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As the first extensive survey of contemporary travel writing, Tourists with Typewriters offers a series of challenging and provocative critical insights into a wide range of travel narratives written in English after the Second World War. The book focuses in particular on contemporary travel writers such as Jan Morris, Peter Matthiessen, V. S. Naipaul, Barry Lopez, Mary Morris, Paul Theroux, Peter Mayle, and the late Bruce Chatwin. It examines some of the reasons for travel writing's enduring popularity and for its particular appeal to present-day readers, many of them also travelers. The book will appeal to general readers interested in a closer examination of travel writing and to academic readers in disciplines such as literary/cultural studies, geography, history, anthropology, and tourism studies.
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- Autor/es Holland, P./Huggan, G.
- ISBN13 9780472087068
- ISBN10 0472087061
- Páginas 261
- Año de Edición 2001
Tourist with typewriters (Critical reflections on contemporary travel writing)
- Autor/a Holland, P./Huggan, G.
- Editorial U. MICHIGAN
- ISBN 9780472087068
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