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Going places : a reader's guide to travel narratives / Robert Burgin.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burgin, Robert, author.
- Series:
- Real stories
- Real stories series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxx, 572 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara : Libraries Unlimited, [2013]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Travel narratives have become a surprising popular and varied category of books: Amazon.com has well over a quarter million titles in its travel category. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narrative and explains why so many readers are drawn to them.
- Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives is a valuable resource that readers' advisors in all types of libraries can use to assist patrons in finding nonfiction books of interest to them. It will also serve to help users better understanding their own reading interests.
- The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as readalikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well as book general reader will enjoy browsing. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- A sense of place
- Quests
- The journey
- Getting there is half the fun
- The expatriate life
- Travel humor
- Travel adventure.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Burgin, Robert. Going places.
- ISBN:
- 161069385X
- 9781610693851
- OCLC:
- 795760565
- Publisher Number:
- 99990106545
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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