Author: Bibliothèque publique de Neuchâtel
Publisher: Bibliothèque Neuchâtel
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : fr
Pages : 270

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Author: Michel Schlup
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 245

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Author: Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère
Publisher: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques - CTHS
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Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : fr
Pages : 644

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L'esprit de découverte s'est perpétué et développé à travers les temps, notamment dans le cadre des grands voyages d'exploration de l'âge classique et des Lumières. Aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, l'idée principale consiste à parfaire sa connaissance du monde. C'est l'âge d'or des voyageurs savants, philosophes et naturalistes. Avec le XIXe siècle, l'intérêt gagne les hommes et les moeurs.

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004490612
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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The present volume looks at the relation between travel writing and cultural memory from a variety of perspectives, ranging from theoretical concerns with genres and conventions to detailed analyses of single texts. As befits the topic, the contributions roam far and wide, both geographically and historically. Some detail early Portuguese voyages of discovery, particularly to the East. Others depict encounters between Early, and not so early, Modern Western travelers and their Other interlocutors. Still others focus on travel writings as literature. Voyages and voyaging in literature form the subject of the last category of essays gathered here. Amongst the authors discussed are Fernão Mendes Pinto, Jean de Sponde, Furtado de Mendonça, Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, Elsa Morante, Ingeborg Bachmann, Sophia Andresen, Paul Claudel, Graham Greene, Valéry Larbaud, David Mourão-Ferreira, J.M.G. le Clézio, José Saramago, Michel Leiris, and Claude Lévi-Strauss. The volume concludes with an essay by the French-Lebanese author Salah Stétié.

Author: François Angelier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782756401560
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : fr
Pages : 766

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Pendant des siècles, se mettre en route ou s'embarquer releva du défi téméraire, voire de l'inconscience suicidaire. Pourtant, guidés par l'appât du gain, animés d'un grand désir de sciences ou ivres d'un vif appétit de merveilles, voués à la conversion des peuples ou poussés par l'évasion hors d'un monde misérable, des hommes et des femmes, parfois des familles entières, se mirent en route vers des horizons inconnus. S'échelonnant entre deux cataclysmes (les invasions mongoles au XIIIe siècle et le cataclysme atomique du XXe), ce Dictionnaire des voyageurs et des explorateurs occidentaux permet au lecteur de découvrir, outre les figures classiques du voyage et de l'exploration (de Marco Polo à Alexandra David- Néel, en passant par Colomb, Cook, Ross, Charcot, etc.), toute une cohorte bigarrée de missionnaires dominicains et de conquistadors espagnols, d'amiraux anglais et de coureurs des bois canadiens, de diplomates italiens et de globe-trotters allemands, d'alpinistes autrichiens et de corsaires hollandais. Un livre magistral sur la grande parade des conquérants de la planète.

Author: Alan S. Kaye
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 1575060191
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1075

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This large, 2-volume work presents more than 50 authoritative articles by leading specialists on a wide variety of ancient, medieval, and modern languages and dialects of the greater Near East and Africa, from a variety of language families. The articles are concise descriptive narratives presenting the basics of the phonology of the languages and dialects, with an emphasis on the phonological processes operative in them. A major goal of the work is a definite statement on the language and/or dialect in question with regard to genetics, typology, and/or universal elements. Of interest to general linguists as well as those specializing in Afro-Asiatic languages.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : fr
Pages : 436

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Author: Jamʻīyah al-Jughrāfīyah al-Miṣrīyah
Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : fr
Pages : 892

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Languages : fr
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Author: Fabio D'Angelo
Publisher: Fabio D'Angelo
ISBN: 8894361209
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 457

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The first volume of Viaggiatori “Curatele” series seeks to recreate some scientific dialogues, namely meetings, exchanges and acquisition of theoretical and practical scientific knowledge, thus linking the cultural, historical and geographical context of America, Asia, Europe and Mediterranean Sea between the 16th and the 20th century. More specifically, the main objective is to consider the role of travellers as passeurs, as “intermediaries” for building and allowing the circulation of knowhow and the practical and theoretical knowledge from one continent to another.