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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Eccentric Traveller ...
Author: Eccentric Travellers
Author: John KeayPublisher: John Murray
ISBN: 9780719561641
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This is a classic account of obsessives abroad. Madder than the maddest scientists, eccentric travellers made exploration popular. Who could resist the naturalist who wrestled with boa constrictors, or the evangelist who stomped the Hindu Kush stark naked?
Cincinnati Magazine
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Author: United States. Patent OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1572
Book Description
Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office
Author: United States. Patent OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
Book Description
The Arabian Desert in English Travel Writing Since 1950
Author: Jenny WalkerPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000807576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Broadly this book is about the Arabian desert as the locus of exploration by a long tradition of British travellers that includes T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger; more specifically, it is about those who, since 1950, have followed in their literary footsteps. In analysing modern works covering a land greater than the sum of its geographical parts, the discussion identifies outmoded tropes that continue to impinge upon the perception of the Middle East today while recognising that the laboured binaries of “East and West”, “desert and sown”, “noble and savage” have outrun their course. Where, however, only a barren legacy of latent Orientalism may have been expected, the author finds instead a rich seam of writing that exhibits diversity of purpose and insight contributing to contemporary discussions on travel and tourism, intercultural representation, and environmental awareness. By addressing a lack of scholarly attention towards recent additions to the genre, this study illustrates for the benefit of students of travel literature, or indeed anyone interested in “Arabia”, how desert writing, under the emerging configurations of globalisation, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism, acts as a microcosm of the kinds of ethical and emotional dilemmas confronting today’s travel writers in the world’s most extreme regions.
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Author: USA Patent OfficeEccentric America
Author: Jan FriedmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A guide to all things wacky, weird, curious, and bizarre in the U.S.A., featuring approximately 1,000 festivals, attractions, tours, shopping, restaurants, hotels, and eccentric environments. photos. 51 maps.
An Anthology of Women's Travel Writing
Author: Shirley FosterPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719050176
Category : Travel writing
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This anthology aims to challenge stereotypes of women travellers. Rather than simply presenting writings by Victorian women who travelled bravely around the world disregarding social convention and danger, the editors present a range of writing and possible ways of being a woman traveller. As well as the 'eccentric' woman traveller, the editors have included writings by those who might be seen as failed travellers, cautious and conventional travellers and those who did not conform to the adventurous heroine stereotype. Because travelling as a woman and writing as a woman presents the author with a number of textual problems which must be negotiated, Foster and Mills have chosen to include writings which confronted these problems and which resolved them (or did not resolve them) in different ways.These textual problems include the depiction of other women, the representation of spatial relations, the negotiations undertaken in relation to the adventure heroine narrative and character and the position taken by the author in relation to the representation of knowledge. These issues are all crucial in relation to travel writing by women , and the women, whose writing has been collected together in this anthology have made bold decisions in relation to them.
Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger
Author: Geoffrey P. NashPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 9780857288783
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.