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Travel: literature and guidebooks

Reference

Literature of travel and exploration: an encyclopedia
Useful not only as a source of background information, but also as a way to identify travel narratives about particular places. Also lists editions and translations of travel narratives in the entries for individual writers.

Trade, travel, and exploration in the Middle Ages: an encyclopedia
This encyclopedia has solid coverage of many writers, places and concepts important in medieval travel. Includes suggested further readings, editions and translations of major authors/texts. More up-to-date than the entries in the Dictionary of the Middle Ages.

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