Author: Henry SwinburnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Travels Through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776... by Henry Swinburne
Author: Henry SwinburneTravels Through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776
Author: Henry SwinburnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
France on the Eve of Revolution
Author: John LoughPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317189744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Before the Terror and then the Napoleonic Wars made it impracticable to travel through France, many young British men and women were able to watch at first hand the changes taking place in French society an the agitations that were becoming increasingly loud for reform. This book, originally published in 1987, is a study of France in these crucial years seen through the eyes of the travellers. It marries the travellers’ accounts to analysis of the political state of France to produce a book equally illuminating of British taste and attitudies to France, and of the French political and social scene.
The Bibliographer's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature
Author: Francis Adams HyettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature: Parishes and towns: Abenhall
Author: Francis Adams HyettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature--Supplement to the Bibliographer's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature
Author: Sir Francis Adams HyettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Ecology and Literatures in English
Author: Françoise BessonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152752339X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
In all latitudes, writers hold out a mirror, leading the reader to awareness by telling real or imaginary stories about people of good will who try to save what can be saved, and about animals showing humans the way to follow. Such tales argue that, in spite of all destructions and tragedies, if we are just aware of, and connected to, the real world around us, to the blade of grass at our feet and the star above our heads, there is hope in a reconciliation with the Earth. This may start with the emergence, or, rather, the return, of a nonverbal language, restoring the connection between human beings and the nonhuman world, through a form of communication beyond verbalization. Through a journey in Anglophone literature, with examples taken from Aboriginal, African, American, English, Canadian and Indian works, this book shows the role played by literature in the protection of the planet. It argues that literature reveals the fundamental idea that everything is connected and that it is only when most people are aware of this connection that the world will change. Exactly as a tree is connected with all the animal life in and around it, texts show that nothing should be separated. From Shakespeare’s theatre to ecopoetics, from travel writing to detective novels, from children’s books to novels, all literary genres show that literature responds to the violence destroying lands, men and nonhuman creatures, whose voices can be heard through texts.
A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel: The old world
Author: Edward Godfrey CoxPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer SpeakePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1425
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.