Featuring some of the greatest travellers in human history, this survey uses succinct accounts of the most epic journeys in the premodern world as lenses throug
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'Expansive and accessible, Peter Stearns' Sexuality in World History offers a much needed introduction to histories of sexuality from a global perspective.' –