Author: Frances Milton Trollope
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Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Author: Frances Trollope
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Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Suzanne Roberts
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496223969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner 2021 National Indie Excellent Awards Finalist 2020 Bronze Award for Travel Book or Guide from the North American Travel Journalists Association 2020 Bronze Winner for Travel in the Foreword INDIES Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself. Throughout her travels Roberts tries hard not to be a bad tourist, but owing to her cultural blind spots, things don't always go as planned. Fearlessly confessional, shamelessly funny, and wholly unapologetic, Roberts offers a refreshingly honest account of the joys and absurdities of confronting new landscapes and cultures, as well as new versions of herself. Raw, bawdy, and self-effacing, Bad Tourist is a journey packed with delights and surprises--both of the greater world and of the mysterious workings of the heart.

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ISBN: 9780461612493
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 958

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Author: Frances Trollope
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Author: Frances Milton Trollope
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Category : Travelers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Frances Milton 1780-1863 Trollope
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355404170
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Mrs. Frances Trollope
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267347520
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Excerpt from The Robertses on Their Travels, Vol. 2 of 3 Her to look out upon the lovely face of nature, to taste it. Had poor Bertha suffered less, she would probably have borne with less philosophy the annoyance of being associated with people to whom, with all her gentleness, she found it was quite impossible to attach herself. But the fearful agony which every thought turned toward her Irish home was sure to bring back with it, and the horrible dread which occasionally occurred to her, that it was possible that her father might command her return, for the purpose of placing her again under the care of her deeply suspected governess, made her shrink from every thought of complaining of her present quarters, or of doing any thing that might suggest the idea of recalling her. Deep sorrow, or indeed vehement emotion of any kind, developes the faculties and the fee] ings at Bertha's age with wonderful rapidity and could the mother, so suddenly and mysteriously snatched away from her, have been permitted to look back upon her as she was now, she could hardly have recognised the playful, thoughtless creature she had left, in the deeply meditative eye, and the calm and steadfast composure of. 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.

Author: Sophy Roberts
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802149308
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 443

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This “melodious” mix of music, history, and travelogue “reveals a story inextricably linked to the drama of Russia itself . . . These pages sing like a symphony.” —The Wall Street Journal Siberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos—grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, as well as humble Soviet-made uprights that found their way into equally modest homes. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the westernizing influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood. How these pianos traveled into this snowbound wilderness in the first place is testament to noble acts of fortitude by governors, adventurers, and exiles. Siberian pianos have accomplished extraordinary feats, from the instrument that Maria Volkonsky, wife of an exiled Decembrist revolutionary, used to spread music east of the Urals, to those that brought reprieve to the Soviet Gulag. That these instruments might still exist in such a hostile landscape is remarkable. That they are still capable of making music in far-flung villages is nothing less than a miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia follows Roberts on a three-year adventure as she tracks a number of instruments to find one whose history is definitively Siberian. Her journey reveals a desolate land inhabited by wild tigers and deeply shaped by its dark history, yet one that is also profoundly beautiful—and peppered with pianos. “An elegant and nuanced journey through literature, through history, through music, murder and incarceration and revolution, through snow and ice and remoteness, to discover the human face of Siberia. I loved this book.” —Paul Theroux

Author: Jennifer L. Roberts
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ISBN: 9780300094978
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Offering a critical analysis of Smithson's view of time, it provides comprehensive case studies of three of his most influential projects: "The Monuments of Passaic," a sardonic tour of a decaying New Jersey city conducted in the wake of the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act; "Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan," a textual-sculptural-photographic travelogue that coincided with a series of revolutionary discoveries about Maya history; and the Spiral Jetty."--BOOK JACKET.