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Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger
An Anthology
Häftad, 2011
455 kr
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‘Travellers to the Middle East from Burkhardt to Thesiger’ is a compendious anthology of travellers' writings produced during the high tide of Britain’s involvement in the Middle East. The anthology contains extracts from many of the canonical travel texts of the period, including passages by T. E. …
Creating Irish Tourism
The First Century, 1750-1850
Häftad, 2011
435 kr
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Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers, ‘Creating Irish Tourism’ charts the development of tourism in Ireland from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the country's emergence as a major European tourist destination a century later. The work shows how the Irish tourist …
Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941
Av Robert Dixon, Christopher Lee
Inbunden, 2011
1227 kr
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This is the first illustrated edition of the diaries kept by Australian-born photographer and film maker Frank Hurley about his work on the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, his two expeditions to Papua in the 1920s, and his experiences during the First and Second World Wars. While …
Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941
Av Robert Dixon, Christopher Lee
Häftad, 2011
448 kr
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This is the first illustrated edition of the diaries kept by Australian-born photographer and film maker Frank Hurley about his work on the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, his two expeditions to Papua in the 1920s, and his experiences during the First and Second World Wars. While …
Interpersonal Encounters in Contemporary Travel Writing
French and Italian Perspectives
Inbunden, 2014
1329 kr
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This critical study examines the theme of interpersonal encounter in a range of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century travel writing written in French and Italian. Structured typologically, each chapter focuses on a typical activity that brings traveller-protagonists into contact with …
Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway
Inbunden, 2014
1329 kr
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‘Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway’ presents an account of the development of tourism in nineteenth-century Norway and considers the ways in which women travellers depicted their travels to the region. Tracing the motivations of various groups of women …
Interpersonal Encounters in Contemporary Travel Writing
French and Italian Perspectives
Häftad, 2015
486 kr
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This critical study examines the theme of interpersonal encounter in a range of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century travel writing written in French and Italian. Structured typologically, each chapter focuses on a typical activity that brings traveller-protagonists into contact with …
Alternative Modernities in French Travel Writing
Engaging Urban Space in London and New York, 1851–1986
Av Gillian Jein
Inbunden, 2016
1329 kr
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Ever since human beings first travelled, cities have constituted important material and literary destinations. While the city has formed a key theme for scholars of literary fiction, travellers’ writings on the western city have been somewhat neglected by travel studies. However, travel writing …
Travel Writings of Marguerite Blessington
The Most Gorgeous Lady on the Tour
Av Aneta Lipska
Inbunden, 2017
1287 kr
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This book derives from the conviction that Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) merits scholarly attention as a travel writer, and thus offers the first detailed analysis of Blessington’s four travel books: ‘A Tour in The Isle of Wight, in the Autumn of 1820’ (1822), ‘Journal of a Tour through the …
Keywords for Travel Writing Studies
A Critical Glossary
Av Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2285 kr
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Keywords for Travel Writing Studies draws on the notion of the ‘keyword’ as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society to present 100 concepts central to the study of travel writing as a literary form. Each entry in the volume is …
Alternative Modernities in French Travel Writing
Engaging Urban Space in London and New York, 1851–1986
Av Gillian Jein
Häftad, 2019
486 kr
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Ever since human beings first travelled, cities have constituted important material and literary destinations. While the city has formed a key theme for scholars of literary fiction, travellers’ writings on the western city have been somewhat neglected by travel studies. However, travel writing …
Travel Writings of Marguerite Blessington
The Most Gorgeous Lady on the Tour
Av Aneta Lipska
Häftad, 2019
486 kr
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This book derives from the conviction that Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) merits scholarly attention as a travel writer, and thus offers the first detailed analysis of Blessington’s four travel books: ‘A Tour in The Isle of Wight, in the Autumn of 1820’ (1822), ‘Journal of a Tour through the …
Charles de Foucauld’s Reconnaissance au Maroc, 1883–1884
A Critical Edition in English
Inbunden, 2020
2194 kr
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Reconnaissance au Maroc is Charles de Foucauld’s adventurous account of his Moroccan explorations. For eleven months in 1883–84, Foucauld travelled through a country then off-limits to Europeans, documenting its landscape and charting its waterways. He travelled in disguise as a Russian rabbi, …
Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970
A Semiology and Sociocultural History
Av David Scott
Inbunden, 2021
1358 kr
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This book studies design in airline travel posters of the 1920–1970: period. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural cultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information and fantasy to create seductive images/texts. The book is lavishly illustrated in colour, the images …
Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine
Av Gary Fisher, David Robinson
Inbunden, 2021
1421 kr
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Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic ‘authority’, each contributor writes, from memory during the Covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, ‘accompanied’ …
May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate
Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century
Av Julia Dabbs
Inbunden, 2022
1516 kr
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May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate examines in-depth the writings on art and travel by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Like other American women in the later nineteenth century, due to her gender May was unable to receive the advanced training and exhibition …
British Encounters with Syrian-Mesopotamian Overland Routes to India, 1751-1795
Rethinking Enlightenment Improvement
Inbunden, 2023
1469 kr
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This book argues that eighteenth-century British travel writing on the Syrian-Mesopotamian overland routes to India does more than recount encounters; it challenges Enlightenment assumptions about “improvement.” As travellers moved through Syria and Mesopotamia, describing local peoples, cultures, …
British Encounters with Syrian-Mesopotamian Overland Routes to India, 1751-1795
Rethinking Enlightenment Improvement
Häftad, 2026
486 kr
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This book argues that eighteenth-century British travel writing on the Syrian-Mesopotamian overland routes to India does more than recount encounters; it challenges Enlightenment assumptions about “improvement.” As travellers moved through Syria and Mesopotamia, describing local peoples, cultures, …
Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine
Av Gary Fisher, David Robinson
Häftad, 2022
446 kr
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Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic ‘authority’, each contributor writes, from memory during the Covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, ‘accompanied’ …
Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970
A Semiology and Sociocultural History
Av David Scott
Häftad, 2022
426 kr
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This book studies design in airline travel posters of the 1920–1970: period. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural cultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information and fantasy to create seductive images/texts. The book is lavishly illustrated in colour, the images …
Keywords for Travel Writing Studies
A Critical Glossary
Av Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
653 kr
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Keywords for Travel Writing Studies draws on the notion of the ‘keyword’ as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society to present 100 concepts central to the study of travel writing as a literary form. Each entry in the volume is …
Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History
Av Mary Orr
Inbunden, 2024
1226 kr
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History from below uncovers overlooked protagonists contributing to (inter)national endeavour often against considerable odds. Mrs T. Edward Bowdich then Mrs R. Lee (1791–1856) is indicative. When women allegedly cannot participate in early nineteenth-century scientific exploration, discovery and …
Microtravel
Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection
Av Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1516 kr
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The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic imposed immobility on large sectors of the world’s population, with confinement becoming an everyday reality. The lives of those who previously enjoyed the privileges of being ‘fast castes’ ground to a halt, while at the same time the displacement of more vulnerable …
May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate
Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century
Av Julia Dabbs
Häftad, 2023
486 kr
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May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate examines in-depth the writings on art and travel by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Like other American women in the later nineteenth century, due to her gender May was unable to receive the advanced training and exhibition …
Strongman Eugen Sandow’s World Tour of 1904-1905
The ‘Perfect Man’ in Colonial India and Afro-Asia
Av Carey Watt
Inbunden, 2027
1266 kr
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This book is about strongman and physical culture pioneer Eugen Sandow’s (1867–1925) encounter with colonial Afro-Asia at the turn of the twentieth century, and the fascinating legacy of that encounter. It reveals the significance of Sandow’s 17-month world tour of 1904–1905 (through South Africa, …
Banned Books and Counterfeit Notes
Reading and Writing Against the Penal Colony in French Guiana
Inbunden, 2027
1266 kr
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Banned Books and Counterfeit Notes examines how convicts sent to France’s overseas penal colony in French Guiana used the colonial postal system together with other, unofficial means of communication, to document and challenge lived experiences of transportation and forced labour. Identifying a …
America Magica
When Renaissance Europe Thought it had Conquered Paradise
Av Jean-Marc De Beer, Jorge Magasich-Airola
Häftad, 2007
220 kr
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An enthralling account of the conflicting experiences of discovering the New World, drawing upon the intriguing tales of early discovery and amazing illustrations of the day. The authors invoke the unique exhilaration of exploration, investigating the conflict between the ambitious idealism and …
Virtual Voyages
Travel Writing and the Antipodes 1605-1837
Inbunden, 2010
1300 kr
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'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era of European maritime exploration, these bizarre and captivating tales, with their wildly imaginative visions of …
Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity
Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments
Av Robert Dixon
Häftad, 2013
389 kr
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‘Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity’ is not a biography of Frank Hurley the man; it is instead an examination of the social life of the many marvellous and meaningful things he made as a professional photographer and film maker. The focus of this volume surrounds the media events that …
