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Description

A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.

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First Sentence

IN 1916 oranges, like other exotic things that had to travel by sea, were excessively rare in England.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Paul Fussell (Author)

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  1. essays
  2. history
  3. litcrit
  4. literature biography
  5. nonfiction
  6. travel
  7. uk3 
 

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