TRAVELS INTO PRINT by Innes M. Keighren, Charles W. J. Withers, Bill Bell ( 9780226429533 )

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Title:

TRAVELS INTO PRINT
EXPLORATION, WRITING, AND PUBLISHING WITH JOHN MURRAY, 1773 - 1859

By:

Innes M. Keighren, Charles W. J. Withers, Bill Bell

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0226429539

ISBN 13:

9780226429533

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Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

11 May, 2015

Pages:

392

Description:

In eighteenth - and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors. This book takes readers on a journey into the nature of exploration.

Synopsis:

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors. They were works of both artistry and industry - products of the complex, and often contested, relationships between authors and editors, publishers and printers. These books captivated the reading public and played a vital role in creating new geographical truths. In that age of global wonder and of expanding empires, there was no publisher more renowned for its travel books than the House of John Murray. Drawing on detailed examination of the John Murray Archive of manuscripts, images, and the firm's correspondence with its many authors - a list that included such illustrious explorers and scientists as Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell, and literary giants like Jane Austen, Byron, and Sir Walter Scott - Travels into Print considers how journeys of exploration became published accounts and how travelers sought to demonstrate the faithfulness of their written testimony and to secure their personal credibility.This fascinating study in historical geography and book history takes modern readers on a journey into the nature of exploration, the production of authority in published travel narratives, and the creation of geographical authorship - a journey bound together by the unifying force of a world-leading publisher.

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15 colour plates, 25 halftones, 1 table

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University of Chicago Press

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