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Far-Fetched Facts: The Literature of Travel and the Idea of the South Seas
Far-Fetched Facts is a fascinating look at travel literature, both real and imaginary, from classical times, via early accounts of the new world, to later accounts of the South Sea islands that lay beyond. Rennie traces continuities from the Odyssey to the twentieth century, and stresses the interplay of fact and fiction in a literature with a notorious tendency to stray from the truth. In the process, he provides close readings of various accounts of the mutiny on the Bounty as well as writings by and about Cook, Bougainville, Defoe, Swift, Byron, Melville, Loti, and Stevenson..
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A Far-Fetched Story
What's a frugal, no-nonsense grandmother to do, with a harsh winter approaching and the woodpile stacked higher than the very windowsills? Send the family out for even more firewood, dearie, that's what. But when the boy, the girl, the parents, and even the baby come back from the forest empty-handed and full of excuses, Grandmother knows a tall tale when she hears five of them! Find out how a spool of far-fetched stories (plus, mysteriously, the remains of a dress, two shirts, a gown, and one baby-sized polka-dotted sash) lead to a homespun treasure that makes for the warmest - and coziest - of endings..
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Far-Fetched Facts: The Literature of Travel and the Idea of the South Seas. (book reviews): An article from: Utopian Studies
This digital document is an article from Utopian Studies, published by Society for Utopian Studies on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1442 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Far-Fetched Facts: The Literature of Travel and the Idea of the South Seas. (book reviews) Author: Michael J. Tolley Publication:Utopian Studies (Refereed) Date: January 1, 1997 Publisher: Society for Utopian Studies Volume: v8 Issue: n1 Page: p220(3) Article Type: Book Review Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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