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Travel accounts and travelogues dating from the 16th to 19th centuries.
Collection includes reports of missionary reports; accounts of pilgrimages,
educational voyages, artisan's wanderings, concrete data and statistics,
descriptions of resorts, spas, courts an curiosities, anecdotes and social commentaries.
The literature documents European mentalities and the dynamics of intercultural
encounters (that sometimes resulted in collisions).
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