Author: John Campbell OmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Actions & Travels
Author: Anna JacksonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781869409180
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A brilliant introduction to how poetry works through one hundred poems.Through illuminating readings of one hundred poems - from Catullus to Alice Oswald, Shakespeare to Hera Lindsay Bird - Actions & Travels is an engaging introduction to how poetry works. Ten chapters look at simplicity and resonance, imagery and form, letters and odes, and much more. In Actions & Travels Anna Jackson explains how we can all read (and even write) poetry.
The Great Indian Epics
Author: John Campbell OmanCatalogue of Books, Pictures ...
Author: Gresham CollegeAdministration Actions to Control Federal Travel
Author: Susan S. JackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government travel
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Handbook of Physiology
Author: William Senhouse KirkesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846
Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
An Account of the Life of that Ancient Servant of Jesus Christ, John Richardson
Author: John RichardsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Travels in Paradox
Author: Claudio MincaPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461646375
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This innovative volume focuses on tourism through the twin lenses of cultural theory and cultural geography. Presenting a set of innovative case studies on tourist destinations around the world, the contributors explore the paradoxes of the tourist experience and the implications of these paradoxes for our broader understanding of the problems of modernity and identity. The book examines how tourism reveals the paradoxical ways that places are both mobile and rooted, real and fake, inhabited by those who are simultaneously insiders and outsiders, and both subjectively experienced and objectively viewed. The concepts of travel and mobility long have been used to explain modern identity and social behavior, but this work pushes beyond the established literature by considering the ways that place and mobility are inherently related in unexpected, even contradictory ways. Travel, the international cast of authors contends, occurs 'in place' rather than 'between places.' Thus, instead of offering yet another interpretation of the ways modern societies are distinguished by their mobilities-in contrast to the supposed place-bound quality of traditional societies-the chapters here collectively argue for an understanding of modern identity as simultaneously grounded and mobile. This rich blend of empirical and theoretical analysis will be invaluable for cultural geographers, anthropologists, and sociologists of tourism.
The Travels of Ibn Batūta
Author: Ibn BatutaTravel and Transformation
Author: Garth LeanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317006585
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives. What is surprising, however, is that this association has, on the whole, remained relatively underexplored and unchallenged, with little in the way of a corpus of academic literature surrounding these themes. Instead, much of the literature to date has focused upon describing and categorising tourism and travel experiences from a supply-side perspective, with travellers themselves defined in terms of their motivations and interests. While the tourism field can lay claim to several significant milestone contributions, there have been few recent attempts at a rigorous re-theorization of the issues arising from the travel/transformation nexus. The opportunity to explore the socio-cultural dimensions of transformation through travel has thus far been missed. Bringing together geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers, philosophers, anthropologists, visual researchers, literary scholars and heritage researchers, this volume explores what it means to transform through travel in a modern, mobile world. In doing so, it draws upon a wide variety of traveller perspectives - including tourists, backpackers, lifestyle travellers, migrants, refugees, nomads, walkers, writers, poets, virtual travellers and cosmetic surgery patients - to unpack a cultural phenomenon that has captured the imagination since the very first works of Western literature.