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  • Description: Between 1849 and 1851, Gustave Flaubert and Maxime du Camp undertook a literary and cultural journey through the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. Their route included Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Greece, and Italy. Driven by aesthetic, documentary, and philological motivations, the journey represented an intellectual rite of passage and a formative experience of engaging with Oriental otherness. Their accounts, especially Flaubert’s “Voyage en Orient,” belong to the broader corpus of nineteenth-century travel literature
  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1821–1880
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
  • Internet: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert
  • Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43444
  • Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Flaubert, Gustave. Voyage en Orient. Paris: Charpentier, 1910.
Source: anthologialitt.com

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Gustave Flaubert

Precursori, Forerunners, Précurseurs
Viaggi stravaganti, Weird travels, Voyages insolites
Globetrotter contemporanei, Contemporary globetrotters, Globetrotteurs contemporains
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