Author: Old arm-chairPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The old arm-chair, a restrospective panorama of travels by land and sea
Author: Old arm-chairThe Old Arm-chair
Author: Fred Arthur NealePublisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Are We There Yet?
Author: Alison ByerlyPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472028766
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Are We There Yet? Virtual Travel and Victorian Realismconnects the Victorian fascination with "virtual travel" with the rise of realism in nineteenth-century fiction and twenty-first-century experiments in virtual reality. Even as the expansion of river and railway networks in the nineteenth century made travel easier than ever before, staying at home and fantasizing about travel turned into a favorite pastime. New ways of representing place—360-degree panoramas, foldout river maps, exhaustive railway guides—offered themselves as substitutes for actual travel. Thinking of these representations as a form of "virtual travel" reveals a surprising continuity between the Victorian fascination with imaginative dislocation and twenty-first -century efforts to use digital technology to expand the physical boundaries of the self.
Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea
Author: SHIPWRECKS.A General Catalogue of Books in Every Department of Literature for Public School Libraries in Upper Canada
Author: Publisher: Department of Public Instruction for Upper Canada by Lovell & Gibson
ISBN:
Category : School libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
A general catalogue of books in every department of literature, for public school libraries in Upper Canada. Sanctioned by the Council of Public Instruction. ... With the general provisions of the law and the regulations for the establishment of public libraries, etc
Author: Ontario. Department of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Ocean
Author: Philip Henry GossePublisher:
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Category : Marine animals
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Nature Contained
Author: Tony O'DempseyPublisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9971697904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
How has Singapore's environment and location in a zone of extraordinary biodiversity influenced the economic, political, social, and intellectual history of the island since the early 19th century? What are the antecedents to Singapore's image of itself as a City in a Garden? Grounding the story of Singapore within an understanding of its environment opens the way to an account of the past that is more than a story of trade, immigration, and nation-building. Each of the chapters in this volume focusing on topics ranging from tigers and plantations to trade in exotic animals and the greening of the city, and written by botanists, historians, anthropologists, and naturalists examines how humans have interacted with and understood the natural environment on a small island in Southeast Asia over the past 200 years, and conversely how this environment has influenced humans. Between the chapters are travelers' accounts and primary documents that provide eyewitness descriptions of the events examined in the text. In this regard, Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore provides new insights into the Singaporean past, and reflects much of the diversity, and dynamism, of environmental history globally.
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