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Traveling in PlaceTraveling in Place

Traveling in Place

A History of Armchair Travel

Bernd Stiegler

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How a house arrest in 18th century France led to a new genre of travel literature involving close reportage of small places requiring little or no travel, and how the genre developed over the ensuing centuries.

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OL Work ID
OL17365507W

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travelliteratureTravel in literatureLiterature, history and criticism

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