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Exhibition:

Voyages: a journey in books

In the modern world, travel is a near universal experience, and the theme of journeys, quests and travels pervades western literature and history. With contemporary political events, the subject of migration is in the headlines, alongside reminders of travel as a leisure, educational and scientific activity.

This exhibition draws on Eton College Library’s holdings of manuscripts, printed books and literary archives alongside materials from the wider College Collections to explore historical travels through documentary and other evidence, and reflect on travel as a literary theme and an act of the mind and imagination as well as the body. Objects have been selected to suggest a wide range of ways to think about travel: pilgrimage, roads, voyages of exploration and scientific discovery, grand tours and cultural travels, colonies and empire, borders and bureaucracy, migration, word and image, factual and fictionalised accounts, poetry.

Highlights include: a manuscript of the Odyssey that belonged to the uncle of Amerigo Vespucci … a portolan chart … the voyages of James Cook … a model of the Beagle … a grand tour passport … the first book printed in Antarctica … unpublished materials by the 20th-century Etonian explorer Wilfred Thesiger … a travelling library.

This free exhibition has been extended until 25 May 2018, and is open by appointment Monday to Friday, 9.30-5.00. To book, please contact us at [log in to unmask] or 01753 370590. Parking is available on request.

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