The Story of the Voyage
Subtitle: Sea-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780521604260
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Eastern European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Eastern European
First sentence: Relations of voyages and travels have at all times, and in all ages, since the invention of letters, been favourably received by the public: but, perhaps, in no age so well as in the present; writings of this kind being bought up with avidity and read with eagerness, more especially in this island, not only by the learned and polite, but also by the rude and illiterate.