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This is a mixture of biography, history and literary criticism which studies travel-writing as both a literary form and a cultural phenomenon. It focuses in particular on five writers - Harry St John Philby, Wilfred Thesiger, Laurens van der Post, Gavin Maxwell and the Himalayan explorer, Frederick Bailey - and analyzes the relationship between their lives and their works, identifying a number of key themes that recur in the experience of all the writers. The author posits the idea of the traveller as a social type and considers their role within British society. He also looks at the way in which foreign landscapes and their inhabitants have been used by British travel-writers as a source of image and fantasy, as well as a means to self-definition and as a vehicle to communicate their own literary and political vision. Mark Cocker's previous books include a biography of the soldier and naturalist, Richard Meinertzhagen.
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- PublisherMartin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0436199874
- ISBN 13 9780436199875
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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LONELINESS & TIME : British Travel Writing in the Twentieth Century
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: NEW - COLLECTIBLE. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Archival Photographs (illustrator). First Edition, First Thus. BRAND NEW & Collectible w/a whisper of discoloration to text blocks. First Edition. Silver embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/New; under mylar. An analysis of travel writing as a unique genre & cultural/philosophical phenomenon. Selected writings show authors' absence of preoccupation with the familiar, and full engagement with his/her new surroundings, and how Greece and Tibet, in particular, lured & captured the British mind in the 20th century. 294 pgs in 10 chapters. For this work, British author and naturalist Mark Cocker (1959 -) examined writings of Harry St John Philby, Winfred Thesiger, Laurens va der Post, Gavin Maxwell, Lawrence Durrell, Patrick Leigh Fermor, and, Himalayan explorer Frederick Bailey. Seller Inventory # 020434
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