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Surveying exotic travel writing in Europe from late antiquity to the age of discover, The Witness and the Other World illustrates the fundamental human desire to change places, if only in the imagination. Mary B. Campbell looks at works by pilgrims...



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Campbell has provided a valuable service, not only in attempting to map such distant and difficult terrain but also in drawing attention to its variety, interest, and worth, while at the same time producing a lively and readable book.

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The author follows the path of the travel-writer through twelve centuries. Attitudes and expectations are analyzed from the days when the 'other world' was assumed to be really 'other' and the 'witness' was prepared to encounter all manner of grotesque creatures.... Pleasure as well as profit may be derived from reading this book, not once but twice.

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: 01/05/1991
      ISBN13: 9780801499333, 978-0801499333
      ISBN10: 080149933X
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      Literature: history and criticism Travel writing

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Surveying exotic travel writing in Europe from late antiquity to the age of discover, The Witness and the Other World illustrates the fundamental human desire to change places, if only in the imagination. Mary B. Campbell looks at works by pilgrims...



      Trade Review

      Campbell has provided a valuable service, not only in attempting to map such distant and difficult terrain but also in drawing attention to its variety, interest, and worth, while at the same time producing a lively and readable book.

      * Speculum *

      The author follows the path of the travel-writer through twelve centuries. Attitudes and expectations are analyzed from the days when the 'other world' was assumed to be really 'other' and the 'witness' was prepared to encounter all manner of grotesque creatures.... Pleasure as well as profit may be derived from reading this book, not once but twice.

      * Geographic Journal *

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