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Much Have I Travell'd: A Book of Quotations
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by:
Crawford, Kirsty
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Publisher:
Cadogan Guides
Published: November 1, 2003
ISBN: 1860111335
Format:Paperback
Pages:256
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Book Description
From the Back Cover
Much Have I Travell'd is a hugely enjoyable, wide-ranging book of literary, historical and exploration travel quotations and witticisms spanning the centuries from ancient times to present day.
Here are the most interesting and
varied quotations concerning travel in all its guises, from the utterances of pioneers discovering new countries, to historical figures and writers musing upon life, love, death and memory. Quotations from sea, land and space explorers combine with
revealing quotes from great figures such as Julius Caesar, Elizabeth I, Napoleon and Winston Churchill. Beginning with the poets and philosophers of the ancients, Much Have I Travell'd serves as an engrossing voyage through history, chronicling the
sentiments of explorers, writers and commentators through pithy, poignant and often humorous quotes of the time.
It includes quotes from Homer, Chaucer, Daniel Defoe, Shakespeare, Byron, Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen,
Virginia Woolf and H. G. Wells to G. K. Chesterton, Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward, Philip Larkin, and Alex Garland. With intriguing observations from great travelers, both past and present including Freya Stark, Rebecca West and Sir Edmund Hillary, amongst
many others, Much Have I Travell'd will delight both travelers and non-travelers alike.
Product Description:
Cadogan's Much Have I Travell'd is a lively compilation of travel and exploration in all its guises, from the conquering of Mount
Everest to the unforgettable words of the love torn lovers in Brief Encounter. It ranges from the ancient world to the present day including quotes from Alice In Wonderland, Spenser's Faerie Queen, Wordsworth, Keats, Yeats, Blake, Dorothy Parker,Hazlitt,
Samuel Pepys to novelists Austen, Henry Miller and Hemingway, resulting in a beautiful, intelligent and immensely readable book. With a scope that traverses
Xenophon, Jules Verne, Marco Polo, the pioneers of the Wild West, Captain Cook, the Antarctic
explorers, Neil Armstrong, Shakespeare, Dickens,Voltaire and other classical authors; alongside contemporary authors and travellers from Alex Garland to Sara Wheeler, this collection will take the reader from Persia to Wonderland via the rolling southern
seas. An exhilarating mix of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, Much Have I Travell'd is the perfect book for anyone who has travelled or wants to enjoy the riches of travel quotations.
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