A Book of Travellers' Tales
Author : Eric Newby
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780330293907
Travelers' Tales Alaska
Author : Bill Sherwonit
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1885211961
Book Description
Travel anthology on Alaska.
Travelers' Tales Thailand
Author : James O'Reilly
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1932361804
Book Description
Winner of the Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book, this newly designed collection paints a unique portrait of a complex and captivating land. One contributor lives as a monk for a month, gaining an inside look at monastic life. Another discovers Bangkok’s riverine pleasures, a world away from its car-choked streets. Yet another finds refuge as the houseguest of an isolated tribesman. Through these engaging personal stories, readers witness how Thailand satisfies just about any traveler’s hunger for the exotic, the beautiful, the thrillingly different. Writers include Pico Iyer, Norman Lewis, Diane Summers, Simon Winchester, Ian Buruma, Thalia Zepatos, and Tim Ward. “The breadth and color of the collective portrait [the contributors] provide of Thailand is remarkable.” — Los Angeles Times
Spain
Author : Lucy McCauley
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781885211781
Book Description
What's it like to be there? "Travellers' Tales" gives the best possible answer through the true stories of other travelers. Journey into Spain with some of the world's best writers, and discover a country of heightened senses, bougainvillea blossoming in crimson and orange, and air pungent with sizzling olive oil. A sensuous journey into a land of mystery and beauty.
Travelers' Tales Nepal
Author : Rajendra S. Khadka
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781885211149
Book Description
Gathers stories by Peter Matthiessen, Jimmy Carter, Diane Summers, Broghtonoburn, Meg Lukens Noonan, and Jan Morris describing their adventures inepal.
Travellers' Tales
Author : Jon Bird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 1134912978
Book Description
Most of us, at various moments in our lives, either adopt a `tourist' identity of are framed within another's tourist experience. Travellers' Tales investigates the future for travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and critical discourses of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration; collecting and representing other cultures. Travellers' tales oscillate between the thrill of novel experiences and unexpected pleasures, and the alienation and loneliness of exile in a strange land. The contributions review recent work on the discourses of tourism, travel and cultural politics; the effects of global interactions and local resistances, and the ways in which records, memorials and signs have all been used to describe the experience of encountering the `other'.
Travellers' Tales
Author : Bertil Scali
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Luggage industry
ISBN : 9780500022504
Book Description
This deluxe illustrated volume brings together tales of the world's most celebrated owners of Louis Vuitton luggage.
America
Author : Fred Setterberg
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781885211286
Book Description
A portrait of the nation through tales of travelers who have traversed the breadth and depth of America the beautiful.
Travelers' Tales Central America
Author : Larry Habegger
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781885211743
Book Description
These stories of travel in Central America -- Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama -- are adventurous and quirky, sobering and enlightening. Readers visit a Panamanian island known for its wildlife; glimpse the wealthy Generation X repatriates of Nicaragua; and meet a charming Guatemalan revolutionary. Authors include Paul Theroux, Jennifer Harbury, Ronald Wright, Joan Didion, Randy Wayne White, and Rigoberta Menchu. Travelers' Tales Central America provides a new window into this astonishingly beautiful and complex part of the world. "For the thoughtful traveler, these books are an invaluable resource." -- Pico Iyer
Travelers' Tales Japan
Author : Donald W. George
Publisher : Travelers' Tales Guides
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781932361254
Book Description
What is it about Japan that so beguiles foreigners? It is a small country and yet an economic powerhouse, a land of great natural beauty -- from green-cloaked mountains to glistening rice paddies -- a place of intricate arts and crafts and amazing cuisine, and home to a people whose kindness and sensitivity surprise westerners at each turn. It is no wonder that Japan simultaneously astonishes, delights, and frustrates travelers, and the diverse tales in this book reveal the nation in all its contradictions: a place of tranquil temples and high-tech toilets, exquisite ancient inns and lurid love hotels, where electric baths sit beside indoor ski slopes, and cherry blossoms fall on kindly grandmothers, cynical salarymen, wise monks, and wild lovers alike. Gathered in this collection are pieces by several notable authors, each offering anecdotes that tell of encounters to be had or avoided, each with uncommon insight to enrich the traveler's experience.
