Book Description
A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.
Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 1982-06-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0199878536
A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.
Author : J. W. Stoye
Publisher :
Page : 1460 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 1949
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Stoye
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300041804
This delightful book by John Stoye allows us to accompany the seventeenth-century traveler on his journeys into France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands
Author : Clare Howard
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : History
ISBN :
"English Travellers of the Renaissance" by Clare Howard. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Americans
ISBN :
Author : Anthony Paul Bale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019873378X
Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology is a comprehensive volume that consists of three sections: concise introductory essays written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of supporting bibliographies organised by type of voyage. This anthology presents some texts for the first time in a modern edition. The first section consists of six companion essays on 'Places, Real and Imagined', 'Maps the Organsiation of Space', 'Encounters', 'Languages and Codes', 'Trade and Exchange', and 'Politics and Diplomacy'. The organising principle for the anthology is one of expansive geography. Starting with local English narratives, the section moves to France, en-route destinations, the Holy Land, and the Far East. In total, the anthology contains 26 texts or extracts, including new editions of Floris & Blancheflour, The Stacions of Rome, The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye, and Chaucer's Squire's Tale, in addition to less familiar texts, such as Osbern Bokenham's Mappula Angliae, John Kay's Siege of Rhodes 1480, and Richard Torkington's Diaries of Englysshe Travell. The supporting bibliographies, in turn, take a functional approach to travel, and support the texts by elucidating contexts for travel and travellers in five areas: 'commercial voyages', 'diplomatic and military travel', 'maps, rutters, and charts', 'practical needs', and 'religious voyages'.
Author : John Walter Stoye
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : Emily Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019883540X
How can we think more deeply about our travels? This was the question that inspired Emily Thomas' journey into the philosophy of travel. Part philosophical ramble, part travelogue, The Meaning of Travel begins in the Age of Discovery, when philosophers first started taking travel seriously. It meanders forward to consider Montaigne on otherness, John Locke on cannibals, and Henry Thoreau on wilderness. On our travels with Thomas, we discover the dark side of maps, how the philosophy of space fuelled mountain tourism, and why you should wash underwear in woodland cabins... We also confront profound issues, such as the ethics of 'doom tourism' (travel to 'doomed' glaciers and coral reefs), and the effect of space travel on human significance in a leviathan universe. The first ever exploration of the places where history and philosophy meet, this book will reshape your understanding of travel.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3846051764
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Author :
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1426214995
This beautifully illustrated, fact-filled book takes you on a trip around the United States and Canada. Presenting experiences in villages, neighborhoods, and regions that cover the breadth of North America's great global diversity - Chinatowns and Little Italys, of course, but also Polish, German, French, Russian, and Japanese enclaves - as well as landscapes that make you think you could very well be in New Zealand or Provence or Tuscany.