Passengers of history

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  • Published 20120904
  • ISBN: 9781921922596
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

‘The first feeling when writing other cultures…is a loss of authority.’
– Eva Hornung

‘I met a traveller from an antique land…’
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Stephanie Green

Dr Stephanie Green is Deputy Head of School in the School of Humanities at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. A cultural historian and creative...

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