Road to Egdon Heath

Bevis examines a wide range of English, European, and North American texts, literary works as well as religious, scientific, and travel writing. He surveys the literature on mountain climbing, sea voyages, desert travel, and polar exploration, and its metaphorical uses in poetry and fiction. Relying on Addison''s term "the Great" rather than "the sublime," he shows how works such as Darwin''s jour...