The old arm-chair, a restrospective panorama of travels by land and sea
Author : Old arm-chair
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 1854
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Author : Old arm-chair
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 1854
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Author : Fred Arthur Neale
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Page : 382 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Asia
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Author : Alison Byerly
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 2012-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472028766
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.
Author : SHIPWRECKS.
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 1860
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Publisher : Department of Public Instruction for Upper Canada by Lovell & Gibson
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 1847
Category : School libraries
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Author : Ontario. Department of Education
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 1857
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Author : Philip Henry Gosse
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Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Marine animals
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Author : Tony O'Dempsey
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9971697904
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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Page : 692 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 1858
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Author : James Bain (fl. 1817-1839.)
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Page : 90 pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 1858
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