Travels into print : exploration, writing, and publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859

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The work Travels into print : exploration, writing, and publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Travels into print : exploration, writing, and publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859

Title remainder

exploration, writing, and publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859

Statement of responsibility

Innes M. Keighren, Charles W.J. Withers, and Bill Bell

Creator

• Keighren, Innes M

Contributor

• Withers, Charles W. J.
• Bell, Bill, 1961-

Author

• Bell, Bill, 1961-
• Withers, Charles W. J.

Subject

• Travel writing -- History -- 19th century
• Travelers' writings -- Publishing -- England -- History -- 18th century
• Travel -- History -- 18th century
• Travelers' writings -- Publishing -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Travel -- History -- 19th century
• Travel writing -- History -- 18th century

Language

eng

Summary

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors. They were works of both artistry and industry—products of the complex, and often contested, relationships between authors and editors, publishers and printers. These books captivated the reading public and played a vital role in creating new geographical truths. In an age of global wonder and of expanding empires, there was no publisher more renowned for its travel books than the House of John Murray. Drawing on detailed examination of the John Murray Archive of manuscripts, images, and the firm’s correspondence with its many authors—a list that included such illustrious explorers and scientists as Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell, and literary giants like Jane Austen, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott—Travels into Print considers how journeys of exploration became published accounts and how travelers sought to demonstrate the faithfulness of their written testimony and to secure their personal credibility. This fascinating study in historical geography and book history takes modern readers on a journey into the nature of exploration, the production of authority in published travel narratives, and the creation of geographical authorship—a journey bound together by the unifying force of a world-leading publisher.--

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Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

University Press Scholarship eBooks