Explorers of Space Anthology: Eight Stories of Science Fiction by Robert Silverberg (Editor)
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Overview: For centuries readers have found pleasure in wondrous tales of expeditions to far-off places. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, before the era of printed books, such narratives as those of Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville circulated widely in Europe in manuscript form. It mattered very little that Marco Polo’s story of adventures in the Orient was authentic while Mandeville’s far more flamboyant account turned out to be a clever literary hoax; both books, and others like them, were eagerly sought. In the sixteenth century came the huge printed anthology of Giambattista Ramusio, a compilation of dozens of explorers’ narratives, and then the immense collection edited by Richard Hakluyt, which published the exploits of Columbus, the Cabots, Drake, Raleigh, and hundreds of others. These books were succeeded by even larger gatherings of first-hand tales of exploration in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—the many-volumed collections of Samuel Purchas, John Churchill, Alexander Dalrymple, and others.
Genre: Sci-Fi | Fantasy
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