Author: Alison Glenny
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988531298
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The magnetic process -- Drift -- Footnotes to The heroic age -- Footnotes to A history of the atmosphere -- Footnotes to A history of the cryosphere -- Footnotes to A history of the honeymoon -- Footnotes to A history of climate -- Appendix 1. Magnetic traces -- Appendix 2. Correspondence.
The Farewell Tourist
Author: Alison Glenny
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988531298
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The magnetic process -- Drift -- Footnotes to The heroic age -- Footnotes to A history of the atmosphere -- Footnotes to A history of the cryosphere -- Footnotes to A history of the honeymoon -- Footnotes to A history of climate -- Appendix 1. Magnetic traces -- Appendix 2. Correspondence.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988531298
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The magnetic process -- Drift -- Footnotes to The heroic age -- Footnotes to A history of the atmosphere -- Footnotes to A history of the cryosphere -- Footnotes to A history of the honeymoon -- Footnotes to A history of climate -- Appendix 1. Magnetic traces -- Appendix 2. Correspondence.
The Dark Tourist
Author: Dom Joly
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472146050
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon, where instead of swapping marbles in the schoolyard, he had a shrapnel collection -- the schoolboy currency of Beirut. Dom's upbringing was interspersed with terrifying days and nights spent hunkered in the family basement under Syrian rocket attack or coming across a pile of severed heads from a sectarian execution in the pine forests near his home. These early experiences left Dom with a profound loathing for the sanitized experiences of the modern day travel industry and a taste for the darkest of places. In this brilliantly odd and hilariously told travel memoir, Dom Joly sets out on a quest to visit those destinations from which the average tourist would, and should, run a mile. The more insalubrious the place, the more interesting is the journey and so we follow Dom as he skis in Iran on segregated slopes, spends a weekend in Chernobyl, tours the assassination sites of America and becomes one of the few Westerners to be granted entry into North Korea. Eventually Dom journeys back to his roots in Beirut only to discover he was at school with Osama Bin Laden. Funny and frightening in equal measure, this is a uniquely bizarre and compelling travelogue from one of the most fearless and innovative comedians around.
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472146050
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon, where instead of swapping marbles in the schoolyard, he had a shrapnel collection -- the schoolboy currency of Beirut. Dom's upbringing was interspersed with terrifying days and nights spent hunkered in the family basement under Syrian rocket attack or coming across a pile of severed heads from a sectarian execution in the pine forests near his home. These early experiences left Dom with a profound loathing for the sanitized experiences of the modern day travel industry and a taste for the darkest of places. In this brilliantly odd and hilariously told travel memoir, Dom Joly sets out on a quest to visit those destinations from which the average tourist would, and should, run a mile. The more insalubrious the place, the more interesting is the journey and so we follow Dom as he skis in Iran on segregated slopes, spends a weekend in Chernobyl, tours the assassination sites of America and becomes one of the few Westerners to be granted entry into North Korea. Eventually Dom journeys back to his roots in Beirut only to discover he was at school with Osama Bin Laden. Funny and frightening in equal measure, this is a uniquely bizarre and compelling travelogue from one of the most fearless and innovative comedians around.
Bancroft's Tourist's Guide
Trapped in Tourist Town
Author: Jennifer DeCuir
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440588686
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
For Cady Eaton, the bright lights of New York City shine far brighter than a town like Scallop Shores, where everyone knows you and nothing new ever happens. She’s finally ready to spread her wings, so when the tourists go home this Labor Day, it’s goodbye, coastal living and hello, Big Apple. Travel writer Burke Sanders is knocking around Maine for the summer on a favor to his editor, and Scallop Shores is just a blip on his map. As a reward, he can pick his next assignment, which will be somewhere far more exciting for sure. But the more time he spends with his local guide, Cady, the more he longs for the things Scallop Shores represents: family, community, and a sense of belonging. She has big dreams and the courage to go after them. Does he have a chance to convince her that everything they need is right in front of them? Sensuality Level: Sensual
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440588686
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
For Cady Eaton, the bright lights of New York City shine far brighter than a town like Scallop Shores, where everyone knows you and nothing new ever happens. She’s finally ready to spread her wings, so when the tourists go home this Labor Day, it’s goodbye, coastal living and hello, Big Apple. Travel writer Burke Sanders is knocking around Maine for the summer on a favor to his editor, and Scallop Shores is just a blip on his map. As a reward, he can pick his next assignment, which will be somewhere far more exciting for sure. But the more time he spends with his local guide, Cady, the more he longs for the things Scallop Shores represents: family, community, and a sense of belonging. She has big dreams and the courage to go after them. Does he have a chance to convince her that everything they need is right in front of them? Sensuality Level: Sensual
Vicos and Beyond
Author: Tom Greaves
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759119767
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In 1952, Professor Allan Holmberg arranged for Cornell University to lease the Hacienda Vicos, an agricultural estate in the central Peruvian highlands on which some 1800 Quechua-speaking highland peasants resided. Between 1952 and 1957 Holmberg, with colleagues and students, initiated a set of social, economic, and agrarian changes, and nurtured mechanisms for community-based management of the estate by the resident peasants. By the end of a second lease in 1962, sufficient political pressure had been brought to bear on a reluctant national government to force the sale of Vicos to its people. Holmberg's twin goals for the Vicos Project were to bring about community possession of their land base and to study the process as it unfolded, advancing anthropological understanding of cultural change. To describe the process of doing both, he invented the term 'participant intervention.' Despite the large corpus of existing Vicos publications, this book contains much information that here reaches print for the first time. The chapter authors do not entirely agree on various key points regarding the nature of the Vicos Project, the intentions of project personnel and community actors, and what interpretive framework is most valid; in part, these disagreements reflect the relevance and importance of the Vicos Project to contemporary applied anthropologists and the contrasting ways in which any historical event can be explained. Some chapters contrast Vicos with other projects in the southern Andean highlands; others examine new developments at Vicos itself. The conclusion suggests how those changes should be understood, within Andean anthropology and within anthropology more generally.
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759119767
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In 1952, Professor Allan Holmberg arranged for Cornell University to lease the Hacienda Vicos, an agricultural estate in the central Peruvian highlands on which some 1800 Quechua-speaking highland peasants resided. Between 1952 and 1957 Holmberg, with colleagues and students, initiated a set of social, economic, and agrarian changes, and nurtured mechanisms for community-based management of the estate by the resident peasants. By the end of a second lease in 1962, sufficient political pressure had been brought to bear on a reluctant national government to force the sale of Vicos to its people. Holmberg's twin goals for the Vicos Project were to bring about community possession of their land base and to study the process as it unfolded, advancing anthropological understanding of cultural change. To describe the process of doing both, he invented the term 'participant intervention.' Despite the large corpus of existing Vicos publications, this book contains much information that here reaches print for the first time. The chapter authors do not entirely agree on various key points regarding the nature of the Vicos Project, the intentions of project personnel and community actors, and what interpretive framework is most valid; in part, these disagreements reflect the relevance and importance of the Vicos Project to contemporary applied anthropologists and the contrasting ways in which any historical event can be explained. Some chapters contrast Vicos with other projects in the southern Andean highlands; others examine new developments at Vicos itself. The conclusion suggests how those changes should be understood, within Andean anthropology and within anthropology more generally.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Gaze's Tourists Gazette
Cook's tourist's handbook to Switzerland
Author: Cook Thomas and son, ltd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Switzerland
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Switzerland
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Classic Brain Twisters
Author: Derrick Niederman
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402723605
Category : Puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
To solve these tantalizing teasers, you'll need to think carefully and logically. No special knowledge is required ... just common sense.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402723605
Category : Puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
To solve these tantalizing teasers, you'll need to think carefully and logically. No special knowledge is required ... just common sense.
Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Northern Italy
Author: Cook Thomas and son, ltd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description