Imagining the world mythical belief versus reality in global encounters
by
Dathorne, O. R., 1934-
Title
:
Imagining the world mythical belief versus reality in global encounters
Author
:
Dathorne, O. R., 1934-
ISBN
:
9780313033803
Personal Author
:
Dathorne, O. R., 1934-
Publication Information
:
Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1994.
Physical Description
:
1 online resource (x, 241 p.)
Contents
:
1. Europe Invents a New World -- 2. European Myth Exported -- 3. Discovering West and East in Literature -- 4. African Voyages: "Discovery" of Europe.
Abstract
:
This is a study of the manner in which certain mythical notions of the world become accepted as fact. Dathorne shows how particular European concepts such as El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, a race of Amazons, and monster (including cannibal) images were first associated with the Orient. After the New World encounter they were repositioned to North and South America. The book examines the way in which Arabs and Africans are conscripted into the view of the world and takes an unusual, non-Eurocentric viewpoint of how Africans journeyed to the New World and Europe, participating in, what may be.
Subject Term
:
Discoveries in geography.
Voyages and travels.
Geographical myths.
Social Science.
Geography -- Travel.
TRAVEL -- Essays & Travelogues.
Wereldbeeld.
Reisbeschrijvingen.
Découvertes géographiques.
Voyages.
Mythes géographiques.
Entdeckungsreise.
Mythisches Land.
Fiktiver Reisebericht.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Electronic Access
:
Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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IYTE Library | E-Book | 275964-1001 | G95 .D38 1994 | Online |