Far-Fetched Facts the Literature of Travel and the Idea of the South Seas
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
- Publish date: 01/01/1999
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"An energetically researched book and useful in bringing together in one place a large number of early stories about Lost paradise and imagined worlds." -- American Literature. "Richly informative, 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. -- Claude Rawson, Times Literary Supplement 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.
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