TRUTH AND IMAGINATION IN EARLY TRAVEL LITERATURE-ANALYSIS OF P.G. ADAMS’ BOOK “TRAVELERS AND TRAVEL LIARS”
This article introduces Percy G. Adams’ book “Travelers and Travel Liars”, 1660–1800, a pioneering exploration of the role of deception in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century travel literature. Adams demonstrates how fabricated accounts, exaggerations, and plagiarisms influenced European knowledge of distant lands and peoples. The article presents a chapter-by-chapter overview of Adams’ work, situates it within the broader intellectual context of the Enlightenment, and highlights how both contemporary philosophers and later scholars from Uzbekistan, Russia, and America have examined the intersection of truth, fiction, and cultural representation in travel narratives.
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