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Travels to terra incognita : the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides in early modern travellers' accounts c. 1600 to 1800
- Author
- Rackwitz, Martin, 1970-
- Title
- Travels to terra incognita : the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides in early modern travellers' accounts c. 1600 to 1800 / Martin Rackwitz.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Münster ; New York : Waxmann, c2007.
- Description
- 633 p. : ill. ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- Series
- Internationale Hochschulschriften, Bd. 472
- Notes
- A studt based on "more than 400 accounts of travellers to Scotland from Great Britain, Germany, France, and Scandinavia, covering the period from the late Middle Ages until about 1800."--p. 21.. CD-ROM contains Appendix 1, biographies of the travellers, and 2, maps tracing their journeys. Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Kiel, 2004. Includes bibliographical references (p. 529-549) and index. Text in English; summary in German.
- Subject headings
- Highlands (Scotland)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800. Hebrides (Scotland)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- ISBN
- 9783830916994 (pbk.) 383091699X (pbk.)