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Traveling in Place: A History of Armchair Travel
By Stiegler, Bernd
- ISBN
- 9780226774671
- Publisher
- Univ. of Chicago
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Reviewed on October 15, 2013 | Social Sciences
Not a look at travel writing in the usual sense, this is a study of the alternatives to describing exotic locations written about by travel writers throughout literature. Stiegler's (German literature, Univ. of Konstanz, Germany) book, translated from the original German by Filkins (literature, Bard Coll. at Simon's Rock), first looks at Xavier de Maistre's Voyage Autour de Ma Chambr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
