Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
Farmington Hills, Mi Gale 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780810393615
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0810393611
Series Statement:
Dictionary of literary biography v. 166
Content:
Sir Samuel White Baker (1821-1893) - Lady Mary Anne Barker (1831-1911) - Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) - Marguerite, Countess of Blessington (Margaret Power Farmer Gardiner) (1789-1849) - George Borrow (1803-1881) - Lady Annie (Allnut) Brassey (1838-1922) - Viscount James Bryce (1838-1922) - Lady Isabel Arundell Burton (1831-1896) - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) - William Francis Butler (1838-1910) - Louisa Stuart Costello (1799-1870) - Robert Curzon (1810-1873) - Charles Dickens - Lady Lucie Duff Gordon (1821-1869) - Frances Minto (Dickinson) Elliot (1820-1898) - Elizabeth Anne (McCaul) Finn (1825-1921) - Sir Francis Galton ((1822-1911) - Anna Jameson (1794-1860) - Alexander William Kinglake (1809-1891) - Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894) - Edward Lear (1812-1888) - Anna Leonowens (1834-1914) - David Livingstone (1813-1873) - Emmeline Lott (dates unknown) - John MacGregor (1825-1892) - Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) - Louisa Anne Meredith ( 1812-1895) - Florence Nightingale 91820-1910) - Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888) - Julia Pardoe ( 1804-1862) -Sophia Poole (1804-1891) - Marianne Postans (circa 1810-1865) - Mary Jane Grant Seacole (1805-1881) - John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) - Frances Trollope (1779-1863) - Mary Louisa Whately (1824-1889) - Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885).
Content:
Essays on writers of tour memoirs, which were the precursors of contemporary guidebooks, including accounts by women travelers. The distinction between traveler and tourist played a part in the development of the literature of travel. Discusses the impact of technology on the travel industry, including advancements in ocean travel and the railway. These nineteenth-century British travel writers provided ethnographic or scientific data of great use to scholars
Note:
Original 437 p
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Mode of access: Internet.
Language:
English
URL:
Available via Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
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