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Zbigniew Białas Capt.Lewis'Razor On the basis of chosen travel narratives (mainly Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799 -1804 and The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition) the author anatomises the somatics of travel writing, looks into textual and extra-textual evidence and argues, remembering the etymology of the word "e/motion," that - compulsive travelling is a "moving" manifestation of death-wish.
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Zbigniew Białas Capt.Lewis'Razor On the basis of chosen travel narratives (mainly Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799 -1804 and The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition) the author anatomises the somatics of travel writing, looks into textual and extra-textual evidence and argues, remembering the etymology of the word "e/motion," that - compulsive travelling is a "moving" manifestation of death-wish.