Classic travel writing Books
Bhavan Books & Prints From Pole to Pole
Book SynopsisPre-1923 historical reproduction curated for quality, with quality assurance to remove digitization errors. Despite efforts, occasional errors may be present. Book brought back into print for cultural importance and preservation. Bibliobazaar edition.
£35.62
Headline Publishing Group The Little Book of Wanderlust: Travel quips &
Book SynopsisThe ultimate travel companion for voracious voyagers.Do you yearn for a life off the beaten track? Brought to you by Wanderlust, the original travel magazine, this bite-sized guide is jam-packed with trivia, facts and quotes to help cure even the most serious cases of itchy feet. Find out which country has a museum dedicated exclusively to Pot Noodles, which country has more islands than any other nation and which holiday destination you're likely to prefer based on whether you're an extrovert or an introvert. With inspiring quotes from seasoned travellers, The Little Book of Wanderlust is the perfect gift for jetsetters and journeyers.Table of ContentsDepartures • Take Off • Culture Shock • Bucket List • Trailblazers • Homeward Bound.
£6.93
The American University in Cairo Press Description of Egypt: Notes and Views in Egypt
Book SynopsisThe great nineteenth-century British traveler Edward William Lane (1801–76) was the author of a number of highly influential works: An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), his translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1839–41), Selections from the Kur-an (1843), and the Arabic–English Lexicon (1863–93). Yet in 1831, publication of one of his greatest works, Description of Egypt, was delayed, and eventually dropped, mainly for financial reasons, by the publishing firm of John Murray. The manuscript was sold to the British Library by Lane’s widow in 1891, and was salvaged for publication as a hardcover book, in 2000, by Jason Thompson, nearly 170 years after its completion. Now available in paperback, this book, which takes the form of a journey through Egypt from north to south, with descriptions of all the ancient monuments and contemporary life that Lane explored along the way, will be of interest to both ancient and modern historians of Egypt, and is an essential companion to his Manners and Customs.Trade Review‘’Jason Thompson’s exact and dedicated edition deserves much praise.’’—ASTENE Bulletin“A major work’’—Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly"A valuable snapshot of the ruins in the 1820s before clearance and in some cases, destruction."—Morris Bierbrier, Egyptian ArchaeologyTable of ContentsContentsMap of Egypt ixList of Figures xiList of Tables xvList of Abbreviations xviiNote on Transliteration, Translation, and Dates xix Acknowledgments xxiIntroduction 1Part One: Egyptology and Pharaonism to 19301. Egyptology and Pharaonism in Egypt before Tutankhamun 192. Nationalizing Tutankhamun 513. Western Egyptology in Egypt in the Wake of Tutankhamun, 1922–1930 814. Egyptian Egyptology and Pharaonism in the Wake of Tutankhamun, 1922–1930 109Part Two: Tourism and Islamic, Coptic, and Greco–Roman Archaeologies5. Consuming Antiquity: Western Tourism between Two Revolutions, 1919–1952 1376. In the Shadow of Egyptology: Islamic Art and Archaeology to 1952 1677. Copts and Archaeology: Sons of Saint Mark / Sons of the Pharaohs 1978. Alexandria, Egypt, and the Greco–Roman Heritage 229Part Three: Egyptology and Pharaonism to Nasser’s Revolution9. Contesting Egyptology in the 1930s 26310. Pharaonism and Its Challengers in the 1930s and 1940s 29511. Egyptology in the Twilight of Empire and Monarchy, 1939–1952 32912. Conclusion 355Notes 369Bibliography 449Index 481
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bradshaw’s Canals and Navigable Rivers: of
Book SynopsisA facsimile edition of Bradshaw’s Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales. In the Victorian era, the name Bradshaw became synonymous with reliable information on travelling the nation's blossoming network of railways. Published in 1904, Canals and Navigable Rivers was the first guide to planning journeys on the inland waterways of England and Wales. Noting bridges, locks, distances and commercial use, it explores the routes, operation and history of the network, and gives commentary on the areas through which it passed. Compiled at a time when the railways had largely supplanted the waterways, it paints a fascinating portrait of the Edwardian canal system as it began to fall into gentle decay. This facsimile edition of the original book now offers a different perspective for canal boaters and walkers, and gives invaluable information about waterways now lost.Trade Review'Congratulations to [Old House] on republishing this, which is the most important source book for all canal historians. And at such a low price too - only GBP15 - which is only a fraction of the amount I paid for my copy twenty years ago.' --Peter Brown, Railway & Canal Historical Society
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Ashgrove Publishing Ltd Yellow Bear or Red Dragon
Book SynopsisIn June of 1922, Marguerite Harrison, and American journalist and spy embarked from North America on what was to be an epic journey to Japan, Korea, China, Mongolia and Siberia. It was in Siberia that she was arrested by the Bolsheviks, sent 4,000 kilometres to Moscow and imprisoned there, first in the notorious Lubyanka and later in Butrykra Prison. She was threatened with a charge of espionage which could carry the death sentence or at a minimum, ten years' exile in Siberia. Ultimately, the US Government interceded and she was released. Red Bear or Yellow Dragon is one of the finest sources on Japanese society and culture in the 1920s and also offers a rare glimpse into life in the Asian steppes. Harrison undertook a highly dangerous 1,400 km trip from Beijing to Mongolia's capital, Ulan Bator, through the Great Khingan Mountains and over the Gobi Desert to Chita in Siberia. She wrote: 'Most of the roads I followed were bloodstained road - some grim reminders of the World War and Revolution, others with fresh traces of blood shed since the peace.' Marguerite undertook this arduous journey to chronicle the peoples and politics of what she sensed as a stirring of new movements in Asia - the eternal sphinx - that were to severely challenge the West in the coming decades and which continue to do up to the present age.
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Ebury Publishing The Way Of The White Clouds
Book Synopsis'It tells of terrible journeys, of men masked against the sun (riding through ethereal regions with their feet frozen), of welcoming fog-girt monasteries lit by butter lamps at the journey's end' New Statesman The Way of the White Clouds is the remarkable narrative of a pilgrimage which could not be made today. Lama Anagarika Govinda was among the last to journey through Tibet before its invasion by the Chinese. His unique account is not only a spectacular and gloriously poetic story of exploration and discovery, it is also invaluable for its sensitive and clearly presented interpretation of the Tibetan tradition.'Why is it that the fate of Tibet has found such a deep echo in the world? There can only be one answer: Tibet has become the symbol of all that present-day humanity is longing for' Lama Anagarika GovindaTrade ReviewA hypnotic picture of the Tibet which has vanished * New Statesman *A vivid and moving portrait of a country that has bewitched travellers for centuries...a profound and compelling portrait * Sunday Telegraph *
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Pan Macmillan Poems for Travellers
Book SynopsisPaul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast. He divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.
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Eland Publishing Ltd Smelling the Breezes: A Journey through the High
Book SynopsisSmelling the Breezes is an inspiring adventure, that throws down a gauntlet about what can be achieved in a family holiday. Rather than give a leaving party, Ralph and Molly Izzard had their own plans about how to say goodbye to their home in the Middle East. They would walk the three-hundred mile spine of the Lebanese mountains, camping where ever they stopped with their four children, two donkeys and Elias (their gardener-nursemaid-friend) as their sole travelling companions.Trade ReviewThis is the way to travel four children and two donkeys and this is the way to write a travel book. Birmingham Evening Post
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Renard Press Ltd A Hanging: And An Appeal for Publishing the Truth
Book SynopsisGeorge Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. A Hanging, the ninth in the Orwell’s Essays series, tells the story of the execution of an unnamed convict in Burma. With the veracity of the story unknown, but thought to be loosely based on Orwell’s own experiences in Burma, the haunting tale leaves the reader contemplating the heavy topic of colonialism, and the right of one to take the life of another.Trade Review'One of Orwell’s earliest essays, but already a demonstration of his superb and subtle craftsmanship.' (Los Angeles Times)
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John Murray Press The Cruel Way: A John Murray Journey
Book SynopsisINTRODUCED BY FIONA MOZLEY, Booker-shortlisted author of ElmetWITH EXCERPTS FROM ALL THE ROADS ARE OPEN BY ANNEMARIE SCHWARZENBACH'We were both travellers - she always running away from an emotional crisis (not seeing that she was already wishing for the next), I always seeking far afield the secret of harmonious living, or filling up time by courting risk, caught by the clean sharp "taste" it gives to life.'In 1939, adventurer and writer Ella Maillart set off on an epic drive from Geneva to Kabul, accompanied by journalist and photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who later became an antifascist and lesbian icon. The two women travelled partly to escape the coming war in Europe, embarking on a daring, and often dangerous, journey through regions where European women were a rarity. But Schwarzenbach was also fighting a losing battle with morphine addiction, and the women's close but often troubled relationship takes centre stage in the narrative as the journey progresses through Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan. Encountering breathtaking landscapes, ancient ruins and nomadic peoples, The Cruel Way is a gripping, lyrical and deeply empathetic portrait of places, people and friendship. Brought together for the first time with excerpts from All the Roads are Open, Annemarie Schwarzenbach's parallel account of the journey.
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John Murray Press A Time of Gifts: A John Murray Journey
Book SynopsisINTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.' In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his 'great trudge', a year-long journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Three decades later he wrote A Time of Gifts, the sparklingly original account of the first part of this youthful adventure, which took him through the Low Countries, up the Rhine, through Germany, down the Danube, through Austria and Czechoslovakia, and as far as Hungary.Alone, carrying only a rucksack and with a small allowance of only a pound a week, Fermor had planned to sleep rough - to live 'like a tramp, a pilgrim, or a wandering scholar' - but a chance introduction in Bavaria led to comfortable stays in castles, and provided a glimpse of the old Europe of princes and peasants.Hailed as a masterpiece, A Time of Gifts is in part a coming-of-age memoir, but it is also a rich and compelling portrait of a continent that - despite its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers and grand cities - was soon to be swept away by war, modernisation and profound social change. 'Not only is this journey one of physical adventure but of cultural awakening. Architecture, art, genealogy, quirks of history and language are all devoured -- and here passed on -- with a gusto uniquely his' COLIN THUBRON, SUNDAY TIMES'One of the most romantic books of the twentieth century, Patrick Leigh Fermor's account of a long walk across Europe is also a literary treasure, a rich blend of action and observation' GUARDIANTrade Review[Fermor's] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic of what we might call the 'literature of the leg' * Robert Macfarlane, Waitrose Weekend *
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Eland Publishing Ltd The Turkish Embassy Letters: 1716-1718
Book SynopsisMary Montagu was one of the most extraordinary characters in the world. She was a self-educated intellectual, a free spirit, a radical, a feminist but also an entitled aristocrat and a society wit with powerful friends at court. In 1716 she travelled across Europe to take up residence in Istanbul as the wife of the British ambassador. Her letters remain as fresh as the day they were penned: enchanted by her discoveries of the life of Turkish women behind the veil, by Arabic poetry and by contemporary medical practices - including inoculation. For two years she lovingly observed Ottoman society as a participant, with affection, intelligence and an astonishing lack of prejudice.Trade Reviewone of the best narrative travel books ever written by an Englishwoman. Dervla Murphy
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Crescent House Snow on the Equator Paperback: Mount Kenya,
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Alma Books Ltd Rome, Naples and Florence
Book SynopsisFew writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of Napoleon’s armies, and he continued to travel and to live in Italy until a few months before his death. Some of his visits lasted only a few weeks, others continued for years, and he spent the last decade of his life as French Consul in Civitavecchia – yet he was never a tourist in the ordinary sense of the word. Italy, for Stendhal, was never a mere treasure trove of ruins, museums and galleries: it was the life of the country which fascinated him, its spirit, the inner workings of its heart and mind. This picture – or rather this living dream – of Italy he created is as fresh and tantalizing today as it was almost two centuries ago.
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Penguin Books Ltd Hindoo Holiday
Book SynopsisA highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley''s time in IndiaIn the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the Private Secretary to the Maharajah of Chhokrapur. Knowing almost nothing of India, he discovers Hindu culture, festivals and language, and reveals the fascinating attitudes of the Palace staff on women, marriage. the caste system and death. At the heart of Hindoo Holiday is the wonderfully unpredictable figure of his Highness the Maharajah Sahib who, ultimately, just wants ''someone to love him''.
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HarperCollins Publishers If You Were There Missing People and the Marks
Book SynopsisOne of the non-fiction books of the year.' Andrew O' Hagan A powerful, evocative and deeply personal journey into the world of missing peopleWhen Francisco Garcia was just seven years old, his father, Christobal, left his family. Unemployed, addicted to drink and drugs, and adrift in life, Christobal decided he would rather disappear altogether than carry on dealing with the problems in front of him. So that's what he did, leaving his young wife and child in the dead of night. He has been missing ever since.Twenty years on, Francisco is ready to take up the search for answers. Why did this happen and how could it be possible? Where might his father have gone? And is there any reason to hope for a happy reunion? During his journey, which takes him all across Britain and back to his father's homeland of Spain, Francisco tells the stories of those he meets along the way: the police investigators; the charity employees and volunteers; the once missing and those perilously at risk around usTrade Review‘It had me rapt. A compassionate and dogged work of journalism and memoir that will stay with me.’ Maeve Higgins, author of Maeve in America ‘I was blown away by this book’s gentle wisdom and incredible research. You will love this amazing book.’ Megan Nolan, author of Acts of Desperation ‘A pilgrimage through the many heartlands of missing, told with the empathy of someone knows all too well the eternal loss of missing. One of those books you can’t put down, gripped by the need to get to the end of the story, as is Garcia himself. A read-it-in-an-afternoon book with a surprising ending that stays with you long after you’ve turned the last page.’ Jo Youle, CEO of Missing People 'This book is a fascinating insight into the complex layers of what it is to be missing and the deep reverberations felt by the families waiting for news. The author shines light on the myriad of issues that result in someone disappearing, with the compassion and empathy of someone with true lived experience.' Kirsty Hillman, Lost Contact supervisor at Missing People ‘This is a beautiful exploration of unresolved grief, and the power and tenacity of those the missing leave behind.’ New Statesman ‘The experience of reading If You Were There is like standing on a beach witnessing the tide pull in and out around you, the landscape forever oscillating between a close, intimate environment and a wide expanse, peopled, on this occasion, with swathes of the missing…’ Guardian, Book of the Day
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HarperCollins Publishers All the Wide Border
Book SynopsisA Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England–Wales border: Britain’s deepest faultline. Trade Review‘I loved this book. Mike Parker weaves together a great deal of wide reading, hard thinking and soulful tramping in his funny, thoughtful and evocative investigation of the Welsh–English border.’ Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession and Peep Show ‘Delightful and perceptive … Poses searching questions about identity, culture and political power.’ Waterstones Books of the Year ‘A joyful canter through the Marches. Delightfully engaging. Blending history, literature and personal anecdote, Mike Parker writes with energy and wit.’ TLS ‘No-one maps the secrets of the UK quite like Mike Parker.’ Ayesha Hazarika ‘A brilliant, fascinating book; Parker is funny and lyrical whilst always choosing brutal truth over sentimentality.’ Miles Jupp 'Classic Parker – a delicious, learned tour through a fascinating place.' Tom Bullough, author of Sarn Helen ‘Genuinely great.’ Adrian Chiles 'I gobbled this up.' Jude Rogers ‘A beautifully written journey through the history and landscape of the border country and a clear-eyed analysis of its physical and psychological dividing line – the best kind of travelogue.’ Richard King, author of Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962–97 ‘This enthralling journey beautifully celebrates our ancient frontier land and is a present-day reminder of its’ enduring duty.’ Tudur Owen, BAFTA winning comedian and presenter ‘I was often overcome by “fierce wonder”. Fine writing indeed.’ John Sam Jones, author of The Journey is Home ‘Engaging, entertaining and very readable.’ Nation.Cymru ‘A likeable, highly literate companion.’ New Welsh Review ‘A kind of mini-biography of the British psyche emerges from Parker's work, its learning lightly worn and its tales well told, full of interest and incident’ Horatio Clare
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HarperCollins Publishers All the Wide Border
Book SynopsisA Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the EnglandWales border: Britain's deepest faultline.There is a line on the map: to one side Wales, small, rugged and stubborn; on the other England, crucible of the most expansionist culture the world has ever seen. It is a line that has been dug, debated, defined and defended for twenty centuries.All the Wide Border is a personal journey through the places, amongst the people, and across the divides of the border between England and Wales. Taking in some of our loveliest landscapes, and our darkest secrets, this is a region of immeasurable wonder and interest. It is here that the deepest roots and thorniest paradoxes of Britishness lie. The border between the countries, even as a concept, is ragged, jagged and many-layered.Garlanded author Mike Parker has adored and explored these places his entire life. Born in England but settled in Wales, he finTrade Review‘I loved this book. Mike Parker weaves together a great deal of wide reading, hard thinking and soulful tramping in his funny, thoughtful and evocative investigation of the Welsh–English border.’ Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession and Peep Show ‘Delightful and perceptive … Poses searching questions about identity, culture and political power.’ Waterstones Books of the Year ‘A joyful canter through the Marches. Delightfully engaging. Blending history, literature and personal anecdote, Mike Parker writes with energy and wit.’ TLS ‘No-one maps the secrets of the UK quite like Mike Parker.’ Ayesha Hazarika ‘A brilliant, fascinating book; Parker is funny and lyrical whilst always choosing brutal truth over sentimentality.’ Miles Jupp 'Classic Parker – a delicious, learned tour through a fascinating place.' Tom Bullough, author of Sarn Helen ‘Genuinely great.’ Adrian Chiles 'I gobbled this up.' Jude Rogers ‘A beautifully written journey through the history and landscape of the border country and a clear-eyed analysis of its physical and psychological dividing line – the best kind of travelogue.’ Richard King, author of Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962–97 ‘This enthralling journey beautifully celebrates our ancient frontier land and is a present-day reminder of its’ enduring duty.’ Tudur Owen, BAFTA winning comedian and presenter ‘I was often overcome by “fierce wonder”. Fine writing indeed.’ John Sam Jones, author of The Journey is Home ‘Engaging, entertaining and very readable.’ Nation.Cymru ‘A likeable, highly literate companion.’ New Welsh Review ‘A kind of mini-biography of the British psyche emerges from Parker's work, its learning lightly worn and its tales well told, full of interest and incident’ Horatio Clare
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HarperCollins Publishers Literary Landscapes Paris Embark on a captivating
Book SynopsisFrom Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature.The book is an elegant photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous literary restaurants and storied streets of Europe's favourite tourist destination.Literary Landscapes: Paris takes this major European city and with picture perfect photography, compiles an album of memorable views linked to the words of Parisian authors, or writers who made Paris their home. It looks at places where books were written, discussed over dinner, and where ultimately the books are sold.There are the theatres of Molière, Dumas and Beaumarchais along with the incredible Palais Garnier opera house and the legend of Le Fantome by Gaston Leroux.There are the revered bookshops of the Latin Quarter including the idiosyncratic Shakespeare & Co.There are the classic grand structures referenced in Victor Hugo novels (and still there) or the mean streets of George Orwell's Down and Out in Pa
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Vintage Publishing A Time in Rome
Book SynopsisElizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and land-owner. She travelled a great deal, dividing most of her time between London and Bowen's Court, the family house in County Cork which she inherited. Her first book, a collection of shorts stories, Encounters, was published in 1923. The Hotel (1926) was her first novel. She was awarded the CBE in 1948, and received honorary degrees from Trinity College, Dublin in 1949, and from Oxford University in 1956. The Royal Society of Literature made her a Companion of Literature in 1965. Elizabeth Bowen died in 1973.Trade ReviewA still ludicrously underrated genius of 20th-century British-Irish writing -- Simon SchamaOne of the last century's greatest woman writers * Guardian *Her writings convey the flavour of literary London in the Thirties and Forties * Observer *A matchless writer * Independent *
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Vintage Publishing Maugham W Gentleman In The Parlour
Book SynopsisWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXSomerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with an urbane, wry style all his own.Trade ReviewThere enough raw material to sate his imagination and the journey itself takes on the contours of a story worth recording. Among the coolly-observed descriptions of ruined pagodas there's the added treat of Maugham's catty thoughts on his craft * Sunday Herald (Glasgow) *Maugham's finest travel book...As the urbane novelist wends his way through tropic climes, he reads Proust under the mosquito netting, listens to stories of passion and madness from British colonials gone to seed, and bears up under the merciless sun, sipping at a gin and bitters and laying out a hand of solitaire * Washington Post *An elegant writer's notebook, imaginative, crammed with impressions and ideas received simply and directly, without the filtering screens of literariness or Englishness... he writes with majestic plainness * The Times *A delightful book - It contains vivid travel impressions, some autobiographical confidences, and the plots for a dozen novels * Spectator *
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Vintage Publishing The Road to Oxiana
Book SynopsisRobert Byron was born in England in 1905 into a family distantly related to Lord Byron. He attended Eton and Merton College, Oxford, and wrote several other travel books before his untimely death in 1941 when his ship to West Africa was torpedoed while serving as a correspondent for a London newspaper during World War II. Among his other books are The Station (1928), The Byzantine Achievement (1929), and First Russia, Then Tibet (1933).Trade ReviewA brilliantly-wrought expression of a thoroughly modern sensibility, a portrait of an accidental man adrift between frontiers * New York Review of Books *The Road to Oxiana is part travelogue, part aesthetic manifesto and part social observation; it remains the most thoroughly readable of all books. And Byron is the ideal companion, witty, charming, irascible, and content to leave and be left alone * The Times *The Road to Oxiana is an informed, somewhat high-flown account of the early Islamic architecture of Persia and Afghanistan wrapped in a comic narrative that ensured a far wider readership... Funny, didactic and biting, Byron's masterpiece transports us across the world and, better still, across the decades to splendidly alien lands * Independent *My favourite travel book is Robert Byron's The Road To Oxiana, which started a new wave of travel writing. I took it on my first trip to Iran. I always take books about the places I'm visiting: I sat in a ruined mosque now populated by sheep and read Byron's wonderful descriptions of it. I think that sowed a seed for the Travel Bookshop -- Sarah Anderson, founder of The Travel BookshopI love literary travel books and this is the best one in the English language. Scholarly, eccentric and wildly opinionated -- Tudor Parfitt * Geographical *
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Vintage Publishing Terra Incognita
Book SynopsisA modern classic on exploring and understanding the Antarctic, the most uncharted place on our planet. Terra Incognita is a meditation on the landscape, myths and history of one of the remotest parts of the globe, as well as an encounter with the international temporary residents of the region - living in close confinement despite the surrounding acres of white space - and the mechanics of day-to-day life in extraordinary conditions. Through Sara Wheeler, the Antarctic is revealed, in all its seductive mystery.''Antarctica could hope for no better chronicler: spirited, humorous and highly intelligent, she is also a writer of rare talent'' ObserverTrade ReviewAntarctica could hope for no better chronicler: spirited, humorous and highly intelligent, she is also a writer of rare talent * Observer *Penetrating, vivacious and often amusing, Wheeler's record has a sharp authenticity * The Times *She writes with a consistent wry wit... she never lacks empathy, compassion or generosity for people whose values, background and gender were the polar opposite of hers...What she has done could not be done better * Independent *Her book is an impressive achievement, one genuinely brushed by the ghosts of the past -- Beryl Bainbridge * Literary Review *Terra Incognita deserves to be a bestseller...a wonderful book and terrific corrective to the polar bulldust periodically emitted by Sir Ralph Wotsisname and others of his ilk * Daily Telegraph *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Aran Islands
Book SynopsisThe foremost account of Ireland's cultural and spiritual heritageIn 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged The Playboy and his other major dramas. Yet this book is much more than a stage in the evolution of Synge the dramatist. As Tim Robinson explains in his introduction, If Ireland is intriguing as being an island off the west of Europe, then Aran, as an island off the west of Ireland, is still more so; it is Ireland raised to the power of two. Towards the end of the last century Irish nationalists came to identify the area as the country's uncorrupted heart, the repository of its ancient language, culture and spiritual values. It was for these reasons that Yeats suggested Synge visit the islands to record their way of life. The resuTable of ContentsThe Aran IslandsPlace/Person/Book: Synge's The Aran IslandsAcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextThe Aran IslandsIntroductionPart IPart IIPart IIIPart IVNotes
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Penguin Books Ltd Roughing It
Book SynopsisA fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain''s fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in timber, and writing for a succession of small Western newspapers during the 1860s.
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Penguin Books Ltd A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Book SynopsisBritain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of travel writing Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime''s experience as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour (1724-6) is an invaluable source of social and economic history. But this book is far more than a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution, for Defoe possessed a wild, inventive streak that endows his work with astonishing energy and tension, and the Tour is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world. By employing his skills as a chronicler, a polemicist and a creative writer keenly sensitive to the depredations of time, Defoe more than achieves his aim of rendering ''the present state'' of Britain.
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Penguin Books Ltd A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and
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Penguin Books Ltd Pictures from Italy xxxvii Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisA delightful travelogue in the unique style of one of the greatest writers in the English language In 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year and Pictures from Italy is an illuminating account of his experiences there. He presents the country like a magic-lantern show, as vivid images ceaselessly appear before his - and his readers' - eyes. Italy's most famous sights are all to be found here - St Peter's in Rome, Naples with Vesuvius smouldering in the background, the fairytale buildings and canals of Venice - but Dickens's chronicle is not simply that of a tourist. Avoiding preconceptions and stereotypes, he portrays a nation of great contrasts: between grandiose buildings and squalid poverty, and between past and present, as he observes everyday life beside ancient monuments. Combining thrilling travelogue with piercing social commentary, Pictures from Italy is a revealing depiction of an exciting and disquieting
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Penguin Books Ltd Rural Rides
Book SynopsisTravelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers, and indignant outbursts at the encroaching cities and the sufferings of the exploited poor. Ian Dyck''s new edition places these lively accounts of rural life in the context of Cobbett''s political and social beliefs and reveals the volume as his platform for rural radical reform.
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Penguin Books Ltd Flaubert in Egypt A Sensibility on Tour Penguin
Book SynopsisFlaubert's unforgettable memoirs of travels abroadAt once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a “sensibility on tour,” Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer’s impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of Flaubert’s traveling companion, Maxime Du Camp, Francis Steegmuller reconstructs his journey through the bazaars and brothels of Cairo and down the Nile to the Red Sea.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Penguin Books Ltd A Tramp Abroad Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisTwain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical tidbits, and historical anecdotes in a consistently entertaining narrative. Cast in the form of a walking tour through Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, A TRAMP ABROAD includes among its adventures a voyage by raft down the Neckar and an ascent of Mount Blanc by telescope, as well as the author's attempts to study art - a wholly imagined activity Twain 'authenticated' with his own wonderfully primitive pictures included in this volume.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series Trade Review“[A Tramp Abroad] is delicious, whether you open it at the sojourn in Heidelberg, or the voyage down the Neckar on a raft, or mountaineering in Switzerland, or the excursion beyond the Alps into Italy.” —William Dean Howells
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Penguin Publishing Group Sailing Alone Around the World Penguin Classics S
Book SynopsisThe classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly. Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable – and entertaining – travel narratives of all time. Setting off alone from Boston aboard the thirty-six-foot wooden sloop Spray in April 1895, Captain Slocum went on to join the ranks of the world’s great circumnavigators – Magellan, Drake, and Cook. But by circling the globe without crew or consorts, Slocum would outdo them all: his three-year solo voyage of more than 46,000 miles remains unmatched in maritime history for its courage, skill, and determination.Sailing Alone around the World recounts Slocum’s wonderful adventures: hair-raising encounters with pirates off Gibraltar and savage Indians in Tierra del Fuego; raging tempests and treacherous coral reefs; flyinTable of ContentsSailing Alone Around The WorldList of IllustrationsIntroduction by Thomas PhilbrickSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the Text and IllustrationsSailing Alone around the WorldChapter IA blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivitiesYouthful fondness for the seaMaster of the ship Norhtern LightLoss of the AquidneckReturn home from Brazil in the canoe LiberdaleThe gift of a "ship"The rebuilding of the SprayConundrums in regard to finance and calkingThe launching of the SprayChapter IIFailure as a fishermanA voyage around the world projectedFrom Boston to GloucesterFitting out for the ocean voyageHalf of a dory for a ship's boatThe run from Gloucester to Nova ScotiaA shaking up in home watersAmong old friendsChapter IIIGood-by to the American coastOff Sable Island in a fogIn the open seaThe man in the moon takes an interest in the voyageThe first fit of lonelinessThe Spray encounters La VaguisaA bottle of wine from the SpaniardA bout of words with the captain of the JavaThe steamship Olympia spokenArrival at the AzoresChapter IVSqually weather in the AzoresHigh livingDelirious from cheese and plumsThe pilot of the PintaAt GibraltarCompliments exchanged with the British navyA picnic on the Morocco shoreChapter VSailing from Gibraltar with assistance of her Majesty's tugThe Spray's course changed from the Suez Canal to Cape HornChased by a Moorish pirateA comparison with ColumbusThe Canary IslandsThe Cape Verde IslandsSea lifeArrival at PernambucoA bill against the Brazilian governmentPreparing for the stormy weather of the capeChapter VIDeparture from Rio de JaneiroThe Spray ashore on the sands of UruguayA narrow escape from shipwreckThe boy who found a sloopThe Spray floated but somewhat damagedCourtesies from the British consul at MaldonadoA warm greeting at MontevideoAn excursion to Buenos AiresShortening the mast and bowspritChapter VIIWeighing anchor at Buenos AiresAn outburst of emotion at the mouth of the PlateSubmerged by a great waveA stormy entrance to the straitCaptain Samblich's happy gift of a bag of carpet-tacksOff Cape FrowardChased by Indians from Fortescue BayA miss-shot for "Black Pedro"Taking in supplies of wood and water at Three Island CoveAnimal lifeChapter VIIIFrom Cape Pillar into the PacificDriven by a tempest toward Cape HornCaptain Slocum's greatest sea adventureReaching the strait again by way of Cockburn ChannelSome savages find the carpet-tacksDanger from firebrandsA series of fierce williwawsAgain sailing westwardChapter IXRepairing the Spray's sailsSavages and an obstreperous anchorA spider-fightAn encounter with Black PedroA visit to the steamship ColombiaOn the defensive against a fleet of canoesA record of voyages through the straitA chance cargo of tallowChapter XRunning to Port Angosto in a snow-stormA defective sheet-rope places the Spray in perilThe Spray as a target for a Fuegian arrowThe island of Alan ErricAgain in the open PacificThe run to the island of Juan FernandezAn absentee kingAt Robinson Crusoe's anchorageChapter XIThe islanders of Juan Fernandez entertained with Yankee doughnutsThe beauties of Robinson Crusoe's realmThe mountain monument to Alexander SelkirkRobinson Crusoe's caveA stroll with the children of the islandWestward ho! with a friendly galeA month's free sailing with the Southern Cross and the sun for guidesSighting the MarquesasExperience in reckoningChapter XIISeventy-two days without a portWhales and birdsA peep into the Spray's galleyFlying-fish for breakfastA welcome at ApiaA visit from Mrs. Robert Louis StevensonAt VailimaSamoan hospitalityArrested for fast ridingAn amusing merry-go-roundTeachers and pupils of Papauta CollegeAt the mercy of sea-nymphsChapter XIIISamoan royaltyKing MalietoaGood-bye to friends at VailimaLeaving Fiji to the southArrival at Newcastle, AustraliaThe yachts of SydneyA ducking on the SprayCommodore Foy presents the sloop with a new suit of sailsOn to MelbourneA shark that proved to be valuableA change of courseThe "Rain of Blood"In TasmaniaChapter XIVA testimonial from a ladyCruising round TasmaniaThe skipper delivers his first lecture on the voyageAbundant provisionsAn inspection of the Spray for safety at DevonportAgain at SydneyNorthward bound for Torres StraitAn amateur shipwreckFriends on the Autralian coastPerils of a coral seaChapter XVArrival at Port Denison, QueenslandA lectureReminiscences of Captain CookLecturing for charity at CooktownA happy escape from a coral reefHome Island, Sunday Island, Bird IslandAn American pearl-fishermanJubilee at Thursday IslandA new ensign for the SprayBooby IslandAcross the Indian OceanChristmas IslandChapter XVIA call for careful navigationThree hours' steering in twenty-three daysArrival at the Keeling Cocos IslandsA curious chapter of social historyA welcome from the children of the islandsCleaning and painting the Spray on the beachA Mohammedan blessing for a pot of jamKeeling as a paradiseA risky adventure in a small boatAway to RodriguezTaken for AntichristThe governor calms the fears of the peopleA lectureA convent in the hillsChapter XVIIA clean bill of health at MauritiusSailing the voyage over again in the opera-houseA newly discovered plant named in honor of the Spray's skipperA party of young ladies out for a sailA bivouac on deckA warm reception at DurbanA friendly cross-examination by Henry M. StanleyThree wise Boers seek proof of the flatness of the earthLeaving South AfricaChapter XVIIIRounding the "Cape of Storms" in olden timeA rough ChristmasThe Spray ties up for a three months' rest at Cape TownA railway trip to the TransvaalPresident Kruger's odd definition of the Spray's voyageHis terse sayingsDistinguished guests on the SprayCocoanut fiber as a padlockCourtesies from the admiral of the Queen's navyOff for St. HelenaLand in sightChapter XIXIn the isle of Napoleon's exileTwo lecturesA guest in the ghost-room at Plantation HouseAn excursion to historic LongwoodCoffee in the husk, and a goat to shell itThe Spray's ill luck with animalsA prejudice against small dogsA rat, the Boston spider, and the cannibal cricketAscension IslandChapter XXIn the favoring current of Cape St. Roque, BrazilAll at sea regarding the Spanish-American warAn exchange of signals with the battle-ship OregonOff Dreyfus's prison on Devil's IslandReappearance to the Spray of the north starThe light on TrinidadA charming introduction to GrenadaTalks to friendly auditorsChapter XXIClearing for homeIn the calm beltA sea covered with sargassoThe jibstay parts in a galeWelcomed by a tornado off Fire IslandA change of planArrival at NewportEnd of a cruise of over forty-six thousand milesThe Spray again at FairhavenAppendixLines and Sail-Plan of the "Spray"Her pedigree so far as knownThe lines of the SprayHer self-steering qualitiesSail-plan and steering-gearAn unprecedented featA cheer to would-be navigatorsNotes
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Penguin Books Ltd The Travels
Book SynopsisMarco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different societies he encountered: their religions, customs, ceremonies and way of life; on the spices and silks of the East; on precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts. He tells the story of the holy shoemaker, the wicked caliph and the three kings, among a great many others, evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Rea
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Penguin Books Ltd Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness
Book SynopsisIn 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion and sexual practices, as well as the only eyewitness account ever written of a Viking ship cremation.Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab travellers such as Ibn Fadlan journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Their fascinating accounts describe how the numerous tribes and peoples they encountered traded furs, paid tribute and waged wars. This accessible new translation offers an illuminating insight into the world of the Arab geographers, and the medieval lands of the far north.Trade ReviewExceptional...a fascinating book, with a nugget of curious information on each page, adding up to a picture that turns preconceptions on their head...Delightful and intriguing * The Scotsman *
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Penguin Books Ltd Out of Africa
Book SynopsisIn 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed. Karen Blixen was forced to return to Denmark in 1931 and it was there that she wrote this classic account of her experiences. A poignant farewell to her beloved farm, Out of Africa describes her strong friendships with the people of her area, her affection for the landscape and animals, and great love for the adventurer Denys Finch-Hatton.Written with astonishing clarity and an unsentimental intelligence, Out of Africa portrays a way of life that has disappeared for ever.Trade ReviewCompelling...a story of passion...and a movingly poetic tribute to a lost land -- The Times
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Penguin Books Ltd Waugh in Abyssinia Penguin Modern Classics
Book SynopsisA witty account of Waugh''s time in Abyssinia as a war correspondentIn 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent rubbing shoulders with less-than-honest officials, Arab spies, pyjama-wearing radicals and disgruntled journalists. Witty, lucid and penetrating, Evelyn Waugh captures the dilemmas and complexities of a feudal society caught up in twentieth-century politics and confrontation.
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Penguin Books Ltd Travels with Charley
Book SynopsisIn 1960, John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck with his dog Charley to rediscover and chronicle his native USA, from Maine to California.He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of the American people. Moving through the woods and deserts, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses, Steinbeck observed - with remarkable honesty, insight and a humorous eye - the gamut of America and the people who inhabited it.His 10,000-mile journey took him through almost forty states, where he saw things that made him proud, angry, sympathetic and elated. A rugged and passionate adventure of self-identity, Steinbeck''s vision of the changing world still speaks to us prophetically through the decades.''Delightful. This is a book to be read slowly for its savor.'' The Atlantic
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Penguin Books Ltd Remote People Penguin Modern Classics
Book SynopsisPerhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for The Times. It continues with subsequent travels throughout Africa, where natives rub shoulders with eccentric expatriates, settlers with Arab traders and dignitaries with monks. Interspersed with these colourful tales are three ''nightmares'' which describe the vexations of travel, including returning home.Trade ReviewAn outrageously disdainful, wonderfully funny account ... he wrote like an angel - a fallen one * Irish Times *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Voices of Marrakesh A Record of a Visit
Book SynopsisNobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the rest of his life. In The Voices of Marrakesh, he captures the essence of that place: the crowds, the smells - of spices, camels and the souks - and, most importantly to Canetti, the sounds of the city, from the cries of the blind beggars and the children''s call for alms to the unearthly silence on the still roofs above the hordes. In these immaculately crafted essays, Canetti examines the emotions Marrakesh stirred within him and the people who affected him for ever.Trade ReviewCanetti's feeling for the Orient is perceptible in The Voices of Marrakesh, a unique travel book -- John Bayley * London Review of Books *Cosmopolitan in the tradition of Goethe * New York Times *...this book takes on subtle dimensions as it ponders the inner meaning of new experience * Observer *One of his shortest, most beautiful and most approachable works * Independent *
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Penguin Books Ltd Down and Out in Paris and London
Book SynopsisGeorge Orwell''s vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society.''You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.'' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his ''first contact with poverty''. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris''s vile ''Hôtel X'', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to his readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time - and in doing so, found his voice as a writer.Trade ReviewThe white-hot reaction of a sensitive, observant, compassionate young man to poverty -- Dervla MurphyOrwell was the great moral force of his age * Spectator *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Travels of Sir John Mandeville Penguin
Book SynopsisOstensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan's army, and to have travelled in 'the lands beyond' - countries populated by dog-headed men, cannibals, Amazons and Pygmies. Although Marco Polo's slightly earlier narrative ultimately proved more factually accurate, Mandeville's was widely known, used by Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci and Martin Frobisher, and inspiring writers as diverse as Swift, Defoe and Coleridge. This intriguing blend of fact, exaggeration and absurdity offers both fascinating insight into and subtle criticism of fourteenth-century conceptions of the world.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers tr
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Oxford University Press Pausanias
Book SynopsisPausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias'' Periegesis (description) of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.Trade Review"The stimulating, thoughtful, and well-written essays of this volume will inspire still further work on Pausanias.... For anyone undertaking such work this book will be essential background reading, and it will also be rewarding reading for anyone interested in the era of the Second Sophistic and in the reception of antiquity in the modern age."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Oxford University Press Complete Gentlemen Educational Travel and Family
Book SynopsisThis is the first study to look beyond the Italian Grand Tour to the wider culture of educational travel that thrived among British and Irish landowners between 1650 and 1750. Based on deep archival research, it explores the meanings of continental travel for social mobility, elite formation, landed identity, masculinity and Englishness.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Before Travel 2: Finances, Social Standing and the 'Grand Tour' 3: Learning Abroad 4: Networking Abroad 5: Returns from Travel Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Travel Writing 17001830
Book Synopsis''How is the mind agitated and bewildered, at being thus, as it were, placed on the borders of a new world!'' - William Bartram''Thus you see, dear sister, the manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would have us believe.'' - Mary Wortley MontaguWith widely varied motives - scientific curiosity, commerce, colonization, diplomacy, exploration, and tourism - British travellers fanned out to every corner of the world in the period the Critical Review labelled the ''Age of Peregrination''. The Empire, already established in the Caribbean and North America, was expanding in India and Africa and founding new outposts in the Pacific in the wake of Captain Cook''s voyages. In letters, journals, and books, travellers wrote at first-hand of exotic lands and beautiful scenery, and encounters with strange peoples and dangerous wildlife. They conducted philosophical and political debates in print about slavery and the French Revolution, and their writing often affords unexpected insights into the writers themselves. This anthology brings together the best writing from authors such as Daniel Defoe, Celia Fiennes, Mary Wollstonecraft, Olaudah Equiano, Mungo Park, and many others, to provide a comprehensive selection from this emerging literary genre. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Table of ContentsEUROPE AND ASIA MINOR; THE BRITISH ISLES; AFRICA; THE CARIBBEAN; NORTH AMERICA; AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC
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Oxford University Press Domestic Manners of the Americans
Book Synopsis''it appeared to me that the greatest and best feelings of the human heart were paralyzed by the relative positions of slave and owner''In Domestic Manners of the Americans, Frances Trollope recounts her travels through America between 1827 and 1830, describing her voyage up the Mississippi from New Orleans, a two-year stay in Cincinnati, and a subsequent tour of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. A transatlantic best-seller on publication in 1832, its forthright criticisms of American manners encompassed spitting, religious extremism, ladies'' dress, the relentless pursuit of money, and the unequal treatment of women, slaves, and Native Americans. Witty, satiric, and hugely entertaining, Trollope also had a serious purpose in warning her compatriots of the consequences of democratic freedoms at a time of great social change in England. Deploring slavery and the hypocrisy that sanctioned it, she fuelled abolitionist debate on both sides of the Atlantic and so impressed Trade ReviewIt's a hugely entertaining and informative read, and the new Oxford World Classics edition has all the extras youd expect from this publisher, including an excellent introduction and notes, and even some of the illustrations from the original 1832 edition. Splendid stuff. * Harriet Devine, Shiny New Books *Published in 1832, this feisty journal of a three-year spell in America remains delectably hilarious. * Christopher Hirst, Independent *
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Oxford University Press The Uncommercial Traveller Oxford Worlds Classics
Book SynopsisIn this series of sketches Dickens brings the city of London and its inhabitants vividly to life. His travels take him to the workhouse, the theatre, and further afield to the Liverpool docks and the Paris morgue. Combining autobiography with reportage, the book showcases Dickens's characteristic wit, humour, and social concerns.Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Charles Dickens THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER Map: Dickens;s London Appendix: Textual Variants Explanatory Notes
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The University of Chicago Press Preserving the Self in the South Seas 16801840
Book SynopsisThis volume charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed.
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The University of Chicago Press Preserving the Self in the South Seas 16801840
Book SynopsisThis volume charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed.
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