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Author Keighren, Innes M., author.

Title Travels into print : exploration, writing, and publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859 / Innes M. Keighren, Charles W.J. Withers, and Bill Bell.

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
©2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Exploration and narrative: travel, writing, publishing, and the House of Murray -- Undertaking travel and exploration: motives and practicalities -- Writing the truth: claims to credibility in exploration and narrative -- Explorers become authors: authorship and authorization -- Making the printed work: paratextual material, visual images, and book production -- Travel writing in the marketplace -- Assembling words and worlds.
Summary Innes M. Keighren is a senior lecturer in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Bringing Geography to Book: Ellen Semple and the Reception of Geographical Knowledge. Charles W.J. Withers is the Ogilvie Professor of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason. Bill Bell is professor of bibliography at Cardiff University. He is the general editor of the four-volume Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland and editor of The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society.
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Subject John Murray (Firm)
John Murray (Firm)
Murray London.
Travelers' writings -- Publishing -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Travelers' writings.
Publishing.
England.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Travelers' writings -- Publishing -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Travel -- History -- 18th century.
Travel.
Travel -- History -- 19th century.
Travel writing -- History -- 18th century.
Travel writing.
Travel writing -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Withers, Charles W. J., author.
Bell, Bill, 1961- author.
Other Form: Print version: Keighren, Innes M. Travels into print 9780226429533 (DLC) 2014029845 (OCoLC)885313482
ISBN 9780226233574 (electronic book)
022623357X (electronic book)
9780226429533 (print)
0226429539
Standard No. 40025044378