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From the outer world / edited by Oscar Handlin and Lilian Handlin.
Van Pelt Library E169.12 .F738 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, American.
- Travelers' writings.
- United States--Civilization--20th century.
- United States.
- Civilization.
- United States--Foreign public opinion.
- Developing countries--Literatures.
- Developing countries.
- Genre:
- Literatures.
- Physical Description:
- 491 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- Oscar and Lilian Handlin show how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States. Many accounts are newly translated from Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Spanish, and include such authors as Rabindranath Tagore, V. S. Naipaul and Octavio Paz.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [485]-488).
- ISBN:
- 0674326393
- 0674326407
- OCLC:
- 34583954
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