British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 3, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780333973745
Subjects: Historical geography; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1700 to c 1800; Business / Economics / Finance; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; United Kingdom, Great Britain; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Europe - Great Britain - General; International - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Commerce; Explorers; Great Britain; History; Merchant marine; Merchants
First sentence: Eighteenth-century British travellers have been much talked about in recent decades.