Far-Fetched Facts (Paperback: Reprint: 352 pages)
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| Author: | Neil Rennie, Neil Rennie |
| Format: | Paperback: Reprint: 352 pages. |
| Publisher: | Oxford Univ Pr (01/01/1999) |
| ISBN: | 0198186274 |
| ISBN13: | 9780198186274 |
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...[R]ichly informative, literate, witty, well written and full of sharply alert insight....[A] highly valuable and interesting book, from which I for one have learned much and to which I shall return often.
Publisher Notes: Far-Fetched Facts
- Far-Fetched Facts is a fascinating look at travel literature, both real and imaginary, from classical times, via early accounts of the new world, to later accounts of the South Sea islands that lay beyond. Rennie traces continuities from the Odyssey to the twentieth century, and stresses the interplay of fact and fiction in a literature with a notorious tendency to stray from the truth. In the process, he provides close readings of various accounts of the mutiny on the Bounty as well as writings by and about Cook, Bougainville, Defoe, Swift, Byron, Melville, Loti, and Stevenson.
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