Crusoe's Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918
- ISBN-10
- 0192894692
- ISBN-13
- 9780192894694
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 291
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-10-21
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Bill Bell
Description
Surveys 'mobile readers' in the age of the British Empire to explore what books meant to shipboard readers, Scottish emigrants, convicts en route to Australia, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War.
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