A Book of Voyages Never previously published in this country, A Book of Voyages presents writings by various travelers, annotated and introduced by Patrick O’Brian. John Bell tells us of his day’s hunting with the Manchu empero
| TITLE | : | A Book of Voyages |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.83 (971 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0393089584 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 336 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2013-05-20 |
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Honoring Patrick O’Brian’s centenary, a collection of his favorite travel pieces, replete with perils, discomforts, and exotic pleasures. Never previously published in this country, A Book of Voyages presents writings by various travelers, annotated and introduced by Patrick O’Brian. Most are taken from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; O’Brian felt that, unlike Elizabethan or Victorian accounts, these writings were relatively unknown in our time.
On her journey through the Crimea, Lady Craven witnesses barbaric entertainments in the court of the Tartar Khan. John Bell tells us of his day’s hunting with the Manchu emperor in 1721 outside Peking. An English woman in Madras gives us a detailed description of the extraordinary costume and body decoration of a high-born Indian woman, wife of a nabob.
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Editorial : “This isn’t like any other travel anthology: it is the miraculously provided answer to the now unaskable question, 'Mr. O’Brian, what are you reading?' And what he was reading wasn’t boring. Here is both a glimpse into a vanished era and a complex and, alas, equally vanished mind.” (Richard Snow)
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