Far-Fetched Facts: The Literature Of Travel And The Idea Of The South Seas by Neil Rennie

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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. Rennie traces continuities from the Odyssey to the twentieth century, and stresses the interplay of fact and fiction in a literature with a notorious tendency to stray from the truth. In the process, he provides close readings of various accounts of the mutiny on the Bounty as well as writings by and about Cook, Bougainville, Defoe, Swift, Byron, Melville, Loti, and Stevenson. This 1998 Clarendon Press Paperback is in fair condition. Owner's Name inside; Annotated. Dog-eared; annotated with both highlighter and pen. ISBN: 9780198186274 SKU: 1578271 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book. Show more