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Category : Railroad travel
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Railway Traveller's Handy Book of Hints, Suggestions, and Advice, Before the Journey, on the Journey, and After the Journey
Author: The Railway Traveller's Handy Book of Hints, Suggestions and Advice Before the Journey, on the Journey and After the Journey
Author: Jack SimmonsThe Railway Traveller's Handy Book of Hints, Suggestions and Advice Before the Journey, on the Journey and After the Journey
Author: Jack SimmonsPublisher:
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Category : Railroad travel
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Railway Traveller's Handy Book of Hints, Suggestions, and Advice
Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266740476
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Excerpt from The Railway Traveller's Handy Book of Hints, Suggestions, and Advice: Before the Journey, on the Journey, and After the Journey The extension and ramification of railroads through out the habitable globe, together with the daily increase of railway traffic, are matters of notoriety. Most persons undertake a journey at least once in the course of the year, and it is no exaggeration to state that every man, woman, and child may be ranked as a railway traveller. Nay, more, there are those who pass the greater part of their lives in a railway carriage, flitting incessantly from one station to another, and only breaking off their travels at night, to resume them on the morrow. If, therefore, rail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Railway Traveller's Handy Book
Author: Osprey PublishingPublisher: Old House Books
ISBN: 9781908402349
Category : Railroad travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the aftermath of the 'Railway Mania' of the 1840s Britain boasted an unrivalled network of train services. While many people were amazed and excited by the prospect of travelling by these technological marvels, as with all novelties there were many nervous or bewildered others. This 'handy book', published in 1862, provided suggestions for making the most of the journey. Offering advice about the best travelling costume, the dangers involved in sitting on top of the carriages, how to approach conversation with fellow passengers and, crucially, how to ensure that your wife follows the strict timetable, it gives a charming and entertaining insight into how the early railways were viewed by their Victorian passengers.
Pathologies of Travel
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004333304
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The essays collected here not only contribute to our understanding of the conception and application of a variety of medical ideas, showing how they depended on beliefs about climate and corporeal constitution as well as often inconsistent data or récits culled from travellers and geographically dispersed case histories, but also open up illuminatingly complex perspectives on the uncertainties and dangers of the phenomenon of modern travel.
Crossing Borders in Victorian Travel
Author: Barbara FranchiPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152750963X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
How did Victorian travellers define and challenge the notion of Empire? How did the multiple forms of Victorian travel literature, such as fiction, travel accounts, newspapers, and poetry, shape perceptions of imperial and national spaces, in the British context and beyond? This collection examines how, in the Victorian era, space and empire were shaped around the notion of boundaries, by travel narratives and practices, and from a variety of methodological and critical perspectives. From the travel writings of artists and polymaths such as Carmen Sylva and Richard Burton, to a reassessment of Rudyard Kipling’s, H. G. Wells’s and Julia Pardoe’s cross-cultural and cross-gender travels, this collection assesses a broad range of canonical and lesser-studied Victorian travel texts and genres, and evaluates the representation of empires, nations, and individual identity in travel accounts covering Europe, Asia, Africa and Britain.
Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England
Author: Stefan Fisher-HøyremPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031092856
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of religion and belief, it offers an innovative rethinking of the history of secularisation that will appeal to students, scholars, and everyone interested in secularity, Victorian culture, the history of technology, and the temporalities of modernity. Stefan Fisher-Hyrem (PhD) is a historian and Senior Academic Librarian at the University of Agder, Norway.
The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850–1901
Author: Heidi LiedkePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319958615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book brings together theories of spatiality and mobility with a study of travel writing in the Victorian period to suggest that ‘idleness’ is an important but neglected condition of subjectivity in that era. Contrary to familiar stereotypes of ‘the Victorians’ as characterized by speed, work, and mechanized travel, this books asserts a counter-narrative in which certain writers embraced idleness in travel as a radical means to ‘re-subjectification’ and the assertion of a ‘late-Romantic’ sensibility. Attentive to the historical and literary continuities between ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’, the book reconstructs the Victorian discourse on idleness. It draws on an interdisciplinary range of theorists and brings together a fresh selection of accounts viewed through the lens of cultural studies as well as accounts of publication history and author biography. Travel texts from different genres (by writers such as Anna Mary Howitt, Jerome K. Jerome and George Gissing) are brought together as representing the different facets of the spectrum of idleness in the Victorian context.
Author: Edward Stanford