English Explorers in the East (1738-1745) - The Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke

In English Explorers in the East (1738-1745). The Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke, Rachel Finnegan examines the influential travel writings of three rival explorers, whose eastern travel books were printed within a decade of each other.

About the author

Rachel Finnegan, PhD (1991), National University of Ireland, was a lecturer at Waterford Institute of Technology (1995-2014) and is now a freelance editor. She has published widely on the Grand Tour, including an edition of Richard Pococke's hitherto unpublished foreign travel correspondence (2011-2013).

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Finnegan
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2019
• EAN: 9789004397774
• ISBN: 978-90-04-39777-4
• No. of pages: 346
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic