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Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
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Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Esta es la historia, en fin, de una trayectoria de auténtica humanidad, la de un hombre polifacético como pocos, narrada con profundidad y pasión, lográndose un texto que desborda la condición de biografía para convertirse "seguramentecomo le hubiera gustado al propio Figari" en un ensayo histórico-filosófico que puede resultarnos efectivamente contemporáneo. Esta es la reedición de El Doctor Figari, cuya primera edición se publicó en 2002, y quese encontraba agotada desde hace mucho tiempo. En este libro se narra la peripecia de un auténtico "hombre universal", una suerte de ?Leonardo? uruguayo, ávido de saberes, oficios y pasiones. De ese modo, no es solo al reconocido plást...