Old Worlds

Old Worlds
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 0804743371
ISBN-13 : 9780804743372
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Book Synopsis Old Worlds by : John Michael Archer

Download or read book Old Worlds written by John Michael Archer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aligns ancient and early modern European travel narratives and historical surveys of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and Russia with texts that contributed to English ideas about those regions: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Love's Labour's Lost, Milton's Paradise Lost and Muscovia, and Dryden's Aureng-Zebe.


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