Travel Fact and Travel Fiction: Studies on Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery and Observation in Travel Writing

This volume contains 18 articles by different authors on examples of travel writing from Classical Antiquity (Herodotus) until the first half of the 19th century. Central themes are fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery and observation. Herodotus, Egeria, Rubruck, Marco Polo, Columbus, Joachim Du Bellay, Busbequius, Gryphius, Goethe and Dickens are discussed, among others.