Travels Adv Edward Brown Tapa dura - 1973

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. 0824005821 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Facsimile reprint of the 1739 edition, London: J Applebee for A Bettesworth et al. "To separate fiction from fact in a work so resolutely factual in its presentation... is no easy task ... Nevertheless, scholars do accept it as fiction, by John Campbell, Lit.D., a minor but prolific man of letters and friend of Johnson and Boswell. Campbell certainly had the voluminous knowledge to report with authority ... although it is not clear how many voyages he personally took, his other literaary productions consisteed largely of digests of other men's writings on history, politics, and economics. Factual material concerning these subjects does indeed take up most of the book. But, stripped of this, the work bears several interesting resemblances to contemporary fiction of the period. Between the Christian… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.