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Frederic Regard
British Narratives of Exploration [PDF ebook]
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Features a collection of essays that focus on British travel narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries. This work investigates how the early explorers” sense of self was destabilised by encounters with the Other.

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Format PDF ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9781317316305 ● Editor Frederic Regard ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4446576 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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