Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700
To the East and Back Again
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
Av Montserrat Piera, Temple University) Piera, Montserrat (Associate Professor of Medieval Spanish
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Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2018-07-26
- Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
- Vikt596 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieConnected Histories in the Early Modern World
- Antal sidor316
- FörlagArc Humanities Press
- ISBN9781942401599