The first major study of travel writing as a literary form and of travel as a cultural phenomenon. Weaving biography, history, and literary criticism together, Cocker explores the lives and works of a dozen major explorer/writers and paints fascinating portraits of the places that have obsessed them. Photographs.
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The first major study of travel writing as a literary form and of travel as a cultural phenomenon. Weaving biography, history, and literary criticism together, Cocker explores the lives and works of a dozen major explorer/writers and paints fascinating portraits of the places that have obsessed them. Photographs.
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Add this copy of Loneliness and Time: the Story of British Travel to cart. $19.99, new condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by Pantheon.
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New. Size: 6x1x9; [Stated First American Edition] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. ix, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations; 24 cm. Mark Cocker offers a fertile mixture of biography, history, and literary criticism in his portraits of some of the most prominent twentieth-century British explorer-writers-including Wilfred Thesiger, Laurens van der Post, Gavin Maxwell, and Lawrence Durrell-and of the places-Greece, Tibet-that obsessed them.
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