Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars
- ISBN-10
- 0198020325
- ISBN-13
- 9780198020325
- Series
- Abroad
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982-06-17
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Paul Fussell
Description
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.
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