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  1. Loneliness and time
    the story of British travel writing
    Author: Cocker, Mark
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Pantheon Books, New York

    "Refreshing, original and eminently readable" (The Literary Review), Loneliness and Time is a pioneering study of travel writing as a literary form and of travel as a cultural phenomenon. Mark Cocker offers a fertile mixture of biography, history,... more

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    "Refreshing, original and eminently readable" (The Literary Review), Loneliness and Time is a pioneering study of travel writing as a literary form and of travel as a cultural phenomenon. 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. In scrutinizing the deep drives that impelled these men to the outer reaches, Cocker makes clear the immensely powerful idea of the journey as quest, as pilgrimage, and how it has come to carry mythological and spiritual import. In each portrait, the journey's meaning is unearthed layer by layer, and we see not only how it operates in the lives of the travelers themselves but its importance to the modern industrial and largely secular societies from which these figures emerge Cocker shows how foreign landscapes and their inhabitants have been used by travel writers as a means to self-definition as well as a source of image, fantasy, even self-image. Loneliness and Time illuminates the appeal of travel - the desire to explore the unfamiliar and the strange - that captivates us all

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0679422420
    RVK Categories: HG 729 ; HN 1401
    Edition: 1. American ed.
    Subjects: Geschichte; British; English prose literature; Travel in literature; Travel writing; Travelers' writings, English; Voyages and travels; Geschichte; Englisch; Entdecker; Reiseliteratur
    Scope: IX, 294 S., Ill.
  2. Loneliness and time
    the story of British travel writing
    Author: Cocker, Mark
    Published: c 1992
    Publisher:  Pantheon Books, New York

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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek
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    2021.01007:1
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0679422420
    Edition: 1st American edition
    Subjects: Travelers' writings, English; English prose literature; British; Voyages and travels; Travel writing; Travel in literature
    Scope: ix, 294 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 283 - 288) and index