Cocker, Mark - Loneliness and Time: The Story of British Travel Writing

New York, Pantheon Books, 1992. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the two-tone, tan cloth over boards, light brown cloth-backed, bright and shiny dust jacket, evocative and pictorial. From the publisher blurb, "'Refreshing, original and eminently readable' (The Literary Review), Loneliness and Time is a pioneering study of travel writing as a literary form and of travel as a cultural phenomenon. Mark Cocker offers a fertile mixture of biography, history, and literary criticism in his portraits of some of the most prominent twentieth-century British explorer-writers - including Wilfred Thesiger, Laurens van der Post, Gavin Maxwell, and Lawrence Durrell - and of the places - Greece, Tibet - that obsessed them." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. ix [1], 2-294 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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