03498cam a2200601 i 4500 23537576 BJBSDDR 20250514122608.0 ta 240126s2024 njuab b 001 0deng d 2024931587 9780691266398 (hardcover) 0691266395 (hardcover) (OCoLC)on1427337314 YDX eng rda YDX BDX IH9 OCLCO OQX OCLCO JQW UOK YDX OCLCO IG# MWD GSU PSC OCO GYG DLC eng lccopycat PN 56 L776 2024 809.9332 Literary journeys : mapping fictional travels across the world of literature / John McMurtrie, general editor. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2024. 255 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent still image sti rdacontent cartographic image cri rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Men lcdgt Book editors lcdgt Includes bibliographical references and index. Quests & explorations -- The age of travel -- Postmodern movements -- Contemporary crossings. "A beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twenty-five hundred years. From Homer's Odyssey, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and Cervantes's Don Quixote to Melville's Moby-Dick, Kerouac's On the Road, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, some of the most powerful works of fiction center on a journey. Extending to the ends of the earth and spanning from ancient Greece to today, Literary Journeys is an enthralling book that takes you on a voyage of discovery through some of the most important journeys in literature. In original essays, an international team of literary critics, scholars, and other writers explore exciting, dangerous, tragic, and uplifting journeys in more than seventy-five classic and popular works of fiction from around the world. Chronologically arranged and gorgeously illustrated throughout with paintings, engravings, photographs, and maps in full color, this captivating book will appeal to readers who have travelled widely, who are planning a trip, or who love armchair travel. Contributors include Robert McCrum, Susan Shillinglaw, Maya Jaggi, Robert Holden, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Alan Taylor, Michael Bourne, Sarah Mesle--and dozens more"-- Provided by publisher. Travel in literature. Literary journeys. Geography in literature. Geography and literature. Viajes en la literatura 15869 Viajes literarios 42065 Geografía en la literatura 26510 Voyage dans la littérature. Voyages littéraires. Géographie dans la littérature. Géographie et littérature. Geography in literature. sears Travel in literature. sears Plot summaries. lcgft Illustrated works. lcgft Ouvrages illustrés. rvmgf McMurtrie, John, 1969- editor 41921 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 123365 123365 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-05-07 0 PN 56 L776 2024 00000192780 2025-05-07 00:00:00 1 2025-05-07 BK