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11 produkter
For the Love of Grief
E-bok, 2012
53 kr
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For the Love of Grief is a raw and honest account of personal grief. Anecdotes from the authors own experiences pepper the book, and Manley offers insight into the generally-accepted stages of grief. Having lost close friends and relatives herself, the author shares stories from her own journey and …
Saddling the Dogs
Journeys Through Egypt and the Near East
Av Deborah Manley, Diane Fortenberry
E-bok, 2021
141 kr
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In the absence of horses, saddle the dogs. This Arab proverb, suggesting the uncompromising determination of nomads to keep moving, whatever the obstacles, epitomizes also the travelling ethos of many early visitors to the 'exotic East'. The journeys examined here are linked by the light they shed …
Trans Siberian Railway
Traveller'S Anthology
Häftad, 2009
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185 kr
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No railway journey on Earth can equal the Trans-Siberian between Moscow and Vladivostok. It is not just its vast length and the great variety of the lands and climes through which it passes. It is not just its history as the line that linked the huge territories which are Russia together. It is a …
Malta: A Traveller's Anthology
A Traveller's Anthology
Av Deborah Manley, Deborah Manley
Häftad, 2010
175 kr
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Few countries are as marked by their history as the Maltese islands of Malta and Gozo. Each period of Maltas turbulent historynot least its heroic role during the Second World Warhas added to its rich cultural fabric. Deborah Manleys selection of extracts reveals how generations of writers have …
Cairo Anthology
Two Hundred Years of Travel Writing
Inbunden, 2013
197 kr
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Cairo has long been recognized as one of the great cities of the world, and many travelers have recorded their descriptions of it over the centuries--from the early eye-witness account of Herodotus to the reflections of Sir Richard Burton, Florence Nightingale, and Mark Twain. A Cairo Anthology …
Women Travelers on the Nile
An Anthology
Inbunden, 2016
185 kr
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Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni and Sophia Poole, spoke Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of …
Egypt & The Nile
Av Deborah Manley, Sahar Abdel Hakim m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
206 kr
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No land on earth has been so long observed as Egypt, which was attracting awestruck travelers back in the days of Herodotus and Julius Caesar. Then came pilgrims to Sinai, crusaders and Napoleon, followed by the grand tourists of the eighteenth century, and those less grand with Thomas Cook in the …
Traveling through Sinai
From the Fourth to the Twenty-first Century
Häftad, 2009
298 kr
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Sinai has long attracted travelers to its ancient caravan routes and haunting landscapes, and visitors have frequently left written accounts of their experiences. In this wide-ranging anthology, Deborah Manley and Sahar Abdel- Hakim have collected dozens of accounts and observations from travelers …
Nile Anthology
Travel Writing Through the Centuries
Av Deborah Manley, Sahar Abdel-Hakim
Inbunden, 2015
189 kr
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The stretch of the longest river in the world that nurtured the world's first great civilization has drawn and impressed visitors since ancient times. The Greeks were fascinated by the mysterious annual flood of the Nile that brought both water and nourishing silt to the lands along its banks, …
