Exploration, Travel & Travel History
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There is No Foreign Land – It is the Traveller Who Is Foreign
1:00pm | Saturday 24 March 2012| Tickets: | Duration: | Venue: |
| £N/A | 1 Hour | {related_entries id="evnt_loca"}There is No Foreign Land – It is the Traveller Who Is Foreign{/related_entries} |
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Peter Whitfield’s new book, Travel: a Literary History, tours the historical motives for travel and travel writing – religion, conquest, gold, glory, adventure, aesthetics, science, sex, hedonism, poetry and wisdom – but shows how these overt motives have almost always been accompanied by that of self discovery – the discovery of the foreignness within ourselves.
Peter Whitfield is the author of more than a dozen works of history, literary criticism and poetry, including A Universe of Books: Readings in World Literature, and English Poetry: a New Illustrated History.