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Film, Video Marvelous Country, Precious & Horrible: Honduras through Travel Writing from the 19th Century

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Title

  • Marvelous Country, Precious & Horrible: Honduras through Travel Writing from the 19th Century

Summary

  • Travel books from the past have the appeal of communicating vivid experiences of places and people, especially exotic or from remote locations. The analysis of such books written on Honduras during the nineteenth century clearly shows the influence of the romantic aesthetics distinctive of the period. Deeply moving and sometimes contradictory images bring to life a country of dreams and nightmares. This research explores the many transfigurations of the country through travel writing and the possibility of an alternative reading on the threshold between reality and fiction.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2012-02-09.

Headings

  • -  Architecture, Landscape
  • -  Cities, Towns
  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Government, World Affairs

Notes

  • -  Classification: Auxiliary Sciences of History.
  • -  Hector Leyva Carlas.
  • -  Recorded on 2012-02-09.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688803

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Marvelous Country, Precious & Horrible: Honduras through Travel Writing from the 19th Century. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-09, 2012. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688803/.

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Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2012) Marvelous Country, Precious & Horrible: Honduras through Travel Writing from the 19th Century. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-09. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688803/.

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Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Marvelous Country, Precious & Horrible: Honduras through Travel Writing from the 19th Century. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-09, 2012. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688803/>.