LONELINESS AND TIME: The Story of British Travel Writing

By Mark Cocker

Book Overview

A study of travel writing as a literary art examines the lives and works of a dozen major travel writers, including Wilfred Thesiger, Gavin Maxwell, Laurens van der Post, and Lawrence Durrell. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679422420
• ISBN13: 9780679422426
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Pantheon
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

A great history and more

This is a great history of British 20th Century travel writing, and more. As the book's subtitle says, it's the "story" of British travel writing. And the story includes philosophical, psychological, and literary commentary that exceeds in intellectual content anything else I've read. Highly recommended.