Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars
A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 1982
- ISBN-13
- 9780199878536
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Travel literatureBritish literature between the warsLiterary criticism
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1983)
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