Tales of Travellers; Or, A View of the World
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Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Voyages and travels
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Travellers' Tales
Author : Jon Bird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 24,90 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'.
Megan's Year
Author : Gloria Whelan
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1410307921
Book Description
Through the voice of a young girl, the life of the people known as Irish Travelers is explored. Megan spends her summers traveling around the Irish countryside with her family. They move from place to place, hauling their camper behind their old car. But they aren't on vacation. This is their way of life. Megan and her family are Travelers. As part of their summer life, Megan's father works odd jobs, from fieldwork to roofing houses. Despite the rough living, Megan loves her life and the freedom that comes from traveling the open road. But at summer's end, when there's no more work to be had, the family moves to the city of Dublin. The camper is parked and they move into a cramped house. Megan and her siblings attend the local school as their parents struggle to make ends meet. And as the seasons pass, Megan counts down the days until she can return to her summer life. Gloria Whelan's other books in the Tales of the World series are Waiting for the Owl's Call, Yuki and the One Thousand Carriers (2008 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal winner), and Yatandou (a Junior Library Guild selection). Ms. Whelan lives in Michigan. Beth Peck earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and has illustrated many books for children, including A Christmas Memory, Just Like Josh Gibson, and Music for the End of Time. Ms. Peck lives in Menomonie, Wisconsin.
Italy
Author : Anne Calcagno
Publisher : Travelers' Tales Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781885211729
Book Description
This collection of the best literature on life and travel in Italy is completely revised and updated, and features articles from authors that include Tim Parks, Patricia Hampl, Mary Taylor Simeti, and others. Illustrations. Maps.
Chance Encounters
Author : Janna Graber
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780990878605
Book Description
Travel never goes quite like we expect. Planes are late, maps are misread and unexpected detours are made. When this happens, the twisting roads of travel can lead to adventures we never imagined - and lessons we never expected to learn. Sometimes, if we're lucky, we cross paths with people who show us life from a different angle or provide kindness when it's needed most. Those we meet while traveling can change our journey, our experiences or even our lives. Come along with some of the world's top travel writers as they share their stories from around the globe. Meet three Americans who help a Belgian woman find her voice Bust a move with harmonica-playing pygmies in Uganda See how a former enemy can become your friend Watch a Kenyan girl face a heartbreaking custom with bravery Learn from a wise young monk as he hikes in Bhutan Marvel at the kindness of strangers on a pilgrimage in Japan Take an unforgettable elevator ride with a courageous woman in Paris. Gain new understanding during an unspoken conversation in Cambodia Experience Nepal through the eyes of a child Take a wild ride in Turkey depending only on the kindness of strangers And many more... Chance Encounters: Travel Tales from Around the World includes works from the following contributors: Rick Neal Kimberley Lovato Michele Peterson Janna Graber Rob Woodburn Cece Romanyshyn Margie Goldsmith Annia Lekka Christina Hamlett Gabriella Brand Rick Zullo Peter Mandel C. Lill Ahrens Nithin Coca Shilpa Gupta Bill Wasserzieher Sofie Couwenbergh James Michael Dorsey Rebeca Dunn-Krahn John A. Kumiski For more information on each contributor, see http: //tinyurl.com/k4q8xsx
Tales of a Female Nomad
Author : Rita Golden Gelman
Publisher : Crown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0307421740
Book Description
The true story of an ordinary woman living an extraordinary existence all over the world. “Gelman doesn’t just observe the cultures she visits, she participates in them, becoming emotionally involved in the people’s lives. This is an amazing travelogue.” —Booklist At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita Golden Gelman left an elegant life in L.A. to follow her dream of travelling the world, connecting with people in cultures all over the globe. In 1986, Rita sold her possessions and became a nomad, living in a Zapotec village in Mexico, sleeping with sea lions on the Galapagos Islands, and residing everywhere from thatched huts to regal palaces. She has observed orangutans in the rain forest of Borneo, visited trance healers and dens of black magic, and cooked with women on fires all over the world. Rita’s example encourages us all to dust off our dreams and rediscover the joy, the exuberance, and the hidden spirit that so many of us bury when we become adults.
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544133404
Book Description
"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." —from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding story about writing and reading. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a feat of striking ingenuity and intelligence, exploring how our reading choices can shape and transform our lives. Originally published in 1979, Italo Calvino's singular novel crafted a postmodern narrative like never seen before—offering not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together, the stories form a labyrinth of literature known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers pursue the story lines that intrigue them and try to read each other. Deeply profound and surprisingly romantic, this classic is a beautiful meditation on the transformative power of reading and the ways we make meaning in our lives. "Calvino is a wizard...There is no halting [this book's] metamorphoses." —New York Times Review of Books
Travelers in the Third Reich
Author : Julia Boyd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1681778432
Book Description
Travelers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, fascists, artists, tourists, and even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler—one so palpable that the reader will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.These are the accidental eyewitnesses to history. Disturbing, absurd, moving, and ranging from the deeply trivial to the deeply tragic, their tales give a fresh insight into the complexities of the Third Reich, its paradoxes, and its ultimate destruction.
Timmy's Terrific Travels (Preschool Book)
Author : Marie Date
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2019-10-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781696353298
Book Description
Children's Travel Book Timmy's Terrific Travels is a charming children's story, which combines creativity with education. The story teaches preschoolers about some of the fascinating worldwide locations in a lighthearted way. For ages 3-5 years. Written in an easy to read rhyming format. Beautifully illustrated throughout. Teaches preschool children about the wonder of travel. Meet Timmy the furry gray mouse, who packs his bags and leaves his house! The adventurous mouse sets off to visit a city every day. Timmy's Terrific Travels follows Timmy, as he goes to London and enjoys a cup of tea, braves the height of the London Eye and visits Big Ben. In Rome, Timmy climbs the 174 steps, which make up the Spanish Steps and visits the Roman Forum. When Timmy goes to New York he sees the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. In total, Timmy visits nine amazing cities and sees some incredible sights in each one.
A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom
Author : John Boyne
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593230167
Book Description
From the bestselling author of A Ladder to the Sky—“a darkly funny novel that races like a beating heart” (People)—comes a new novel that plays out across all of human history: a story as precise as it is unlimited. This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons, one with his father’s violence in his blood, one with his mother’s artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning. Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years. They will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium and journeying across fifty countries to a life among the stars in the third, the world will change around them, but their destinies remain the same. It must play out as foretold. From the award-winning author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies comes A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom, an epic tale of humanity. The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heartbreaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling.
