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Fodor's Amsterdam

Author : Fodor's Travel Guides

Publisher : Fodor's Travel

Page : 746 pages

File Size : 36,28 MB

Release : 2013-03-05

Category : Travel

ISBN : 0891419594

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Amsterdam's greatest charm may also be its greatest enigma: how can such a gracious, historical treasure house also multitask as the most offbeat metropolis in the world? From Rembrandts to rock and roll, the city has always been a mesmerizing mix of old and new. Now, as this new edition reveals, Amsterdam and the entire Netherlands is being dramatically revamped for the 21st century by artisanal trendmakers, designers, star chefs, and future-forward architects. Fodor's curated coverage includes the best of the country beyond Amsterdam, including Haarlem, the Hague, Delft, and Rotterdam. Expanded Coverage: The year 2013 will be a banner one for Amsterdam, as two top museums will unveil massive renovations: the Rijksmuseum (home of Rembrandt’s Nightwatch) and the Stedelijk (a modern-art collection). New write-ups showcase the city’s hip “outlier” neighborhoods: North Amsterdam, the Eastern Drydocks, and the gentrifying De Wallen “Red Light” district. The dining chapter dishes on the burgeoning school of Amsterdam cuisine (turbot on a bed of beetroot and sea nettles, anyone?), and a “Netherlands Today” section focuses on high-profile topics such as the changes for “vice visitors” (laws concerning sex and drugs), contemporary design, and immigration. Illustrated Features: Packed with gorgeous color photos, this new edition will add images of iconic recent Amsterdam buildings, such as the Nemo science center designed by Renzo Piano, the ARCAM center for architecture, and Delugan Meissl’s Eye Film Institute, along with new design-centric hotels such as the Conservatorium and the Andaz Amsterdam. A two-page feature presents top Dutch designers. Discerning Recommendations: This edition offers savvy advice and recommendations from local writers to help travelers make the most of their time. Fodor's Choice designates our “best picks,” from hotels to nightlife and beyond. “Word of Mouth” quotes provide valuable insights from fellow travelers.



Colonial Memory

Author : Sarah De Mul

Publisher : Amsterdam University Press

Page : 181 pages

File Size : 18,40 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9089642935

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Sarah De Mul is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) in the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Leuven. Her publications and research interests are in the field of comparative postcolonial studies, with a particular focus on gender, memory, and empire in Neerlandophone and Anglophone literature.



KeeKee's Big Adventures in London, England

Author : Shannon Jones

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 15,64 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Calico cats

ISBN : 9780999066195

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"Travel lovers buckle up and get ready to explore in KeeKee's Big Adventures in London, the 5th picture book in the award-winning KeeKee's Big Adventures series. Join KeeKee, the globe-trotting calico kitty, on her latest brilliant adventures in London. Along with her friend Willamb Sheepspeare, she'll whisk readers through the majesty of England's capital city—from Big Ben to Buckingham Palace to a proper English tea. (Pass the scones, please!) Explorers big and small will have a jolly good time trying out fun British expressions, peeking into royal culture, and navigating London's beautiful streets on a double-decker bus. In the back of this brightly illustrated book, you'll find a kid-friendly guide map of London, a glossary of British terms, and more details on KeeKee's favorite places. It's the perfect getaway for kids and families who love travel, adventure and exploring the world around them. Keep your eyes peeled for KeeKee's colorful hot air balloon."--



Travel Writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930

Author : Alison E. Martin

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 19,17 MB

Release : 2017-01-06

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1317330412

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This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of travelers whose work ranges across what is now Germany and Austria, the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium, the Dutch East Indies and Suriname, the contributors highlight the interrelations between the regional and the global and the role alterity plays in both spheres. They therefore offer a transnational and transcultural perspective on the ways in which the foreign was mediated to audiences back home. By combining a narrative perspective on travel writing with a socio-historically contextualized approach, essays emphasize the importance of textuality in travel literature as well as the self-positioning of such accounts in their individual historical and political environments. The first sustained analysis to focus specifically on these neighboring cultural and linguistic areas, this collection demonstrates how topographies of knowledge were forged across these regions by an astonishingly diverse range of travelling individuals from professional scholars and writers to art dealers, soldiers, (female) explorers, and scientific collectors. The contributors address cultural, aesthetic, political, and gendered aspects of travel writing, drawing productively on other disciplines and areas of scholarly research that encompass German Studies, Low Countries Studies, comparative literature, aesthetics, the history of science, literary geography, and the history of publishing.



Mission Amsterdam

Author : Catherine Aragon

Publisher :

Page : 66 pages

File Size : 45,9 MB

Release : 2015-06-01

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9780989226707

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Mission Amsterdam takes your young travelers through the famous sights of the Dutch capital, engaging them with an exciting scavenger hunt as you explore city landmarks together. Say "tot ziens" (goodbye) to a trip filled with the stress of keeping everyone entertained. Instead, say "hallo" (hello) to a memorable vacation, with your kids actively engaged in exploring the landmarks of Amsterdam with you. Imagine, not only will your kids want to sightsee, together you'll uncover the intriguing histories of sights like the Van Gogh Museum, Royal Palace, Rijksmuseum, and many more. Mission Amsterdamensures a fun trip for everyone with a captivating, spy-theme scavenger hunt packed with fun activities and the fascinating stories behind the city's landmarks. Mission Amsterdam is a must-have book for kids visiting Amsterdam! Be sure to check out our other books for Paris, Rome, Barcelona, London, New York, and Washington, D.C. Here's what Amazon customers have to say about other books in the Scavenger Hunt AdventureTMseries: "This book was flat out fantastic. We took a family trip with two adults and one seven year old. I was worried that he would be bored looking at the museums and sights. This book made a huge, huge difference." -Chinagrl "This book helped make our trip...with 6th graders fun and fulfilling. We weren't sure how our kids would take to going to all the museums and landmarks...but this book had us visiting many sites more than once. They were so excited to find each item in the book." -CC in SF "Great for teenagers! I love these books! My kids are 12, 14 and 16 so I was afraid they might think they were "baby" books, but they are enjoying them." -Marilyn Thomas





Book Club Journal

Author : Sanne Vliegenthart

Publisher : Mitchell Beazley

Page : 81 pages

File Size : 37,69 MB

Release : 2021-05-06

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1784727741

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Book Description

Books connect us: we rave about our favourites to anyone who will listen, pass on our well-thumbed copies to friends and get together in book clubs to chat through our opinions This ebook will allow you to gather your thoughts on the books you have read, with 50 templates to download and fill in. You will also find advice on how to organize a successful book club, pick your discussion topics and make the most of your reading time, plus 200 book recommendations arranged into 20 themed reading lists, carefully curated by Sanne Vliegenthart, book reviewer and creator of hugely popular book videos at Books and Quills. Find Sanne on Twitter, Instagram and Youtube @booksandquills This ebook is not an exact replica of the physical book. All templates from the book are available as downloadable pdfs to print and fill in.



Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer

Author : Petra Broomans

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 30,27 MB

Release : 2024-10-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9027246548

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Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer addresses the multifaceted concept of cultural transfer through travel writing, with the aim of expanding our knowledge of modes of travel in the past and present and how they developed, as did the way in which travel was reported. Travel as both factual and fictional— with authors and narratives moving between different worlds— is one of the many devices that demonstrate the fluidity of the genre. This fluidity accounts for the manifold and powerful influence of travel writing on processes of cultural transfer. This volume also illustrates that cultural transfer is frequently linked to issues of power, colonialism and politics. The various chapters investigate the transmission of other cultures, ideas and ideologies to the writer’s own cultural sphere and consider how the processes of cultural transfer interact with the forms and functions of travel writing.



Tracing Slavery

Author : Markus Balkenhol

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 22,48 MB

Release : 2021-08-13

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1800731612

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Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while there is growing official attention to the country’s slavery past (monuments, festivals, ritual occasions), many interlocutors showed little interest in the topic. Developing the notion of “trace” as a seminal notion to explore this paradox, this book follows the issue of slavery in everyday realities and offers a fine-grained ethnography of how people refer to this past – often in almost unconscious ways – and weave it into their perceptions of present-day issues.