Classic travel writing Books
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.
£28.50
Penguin Books Ltd I Cant Stay Long
Book Synopsis''They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.''When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in the outside world that remained undiminished throughout his writing life. This enchanting collection of his ''first loves and obsessions'' brings together pieces including recollections of his Gloucestershire childhood celebrated in Cider With Rosie; reflections on life, love and death, such as a moving report from the tragic Welsh village of Aberfan; and evocative travel writings on Tuscany, Mexico and the West Indies, amongst others, before they were transformed by mass tourism. Together they capture a world that is lost forever.''One of Britain''s finest writers'' Daily Mail''There''s a formidable, instant charm in the writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book
£9.49
Penguin Books Ltd The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other
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£13.49
Penguin Books Ltd The Motorcycle Diaries
Book Synopsis''A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac'' Washington Post''It''s true; Marxists just wanna have fun... a revolutionary bestseller'' GuardianAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native Argentina to explore their continent, with only a single 1939 Norton motorcycle to carry them, nicknamed La Poderosa (''the powerful one''). They travelled not to visit the usual tourist attractions, but to meet ordinary people and understand Latin American life. In amidst the tales of youthful adventures - of women, wine, thrilling escapes and the power of friendship - the young Che also learns first-hand about poverty, philosophy and philosophy and forms himself into the man who would become the world''s most famous and admired revolutionary and freedom fighter. ''For every comic escapade of the carefree roustabout there is an equally eye-opening moment in the development of the future revolutionary leader. By the end of the journey, a politicized Guevara has emerged to predict his own legendary future'' TimeTrade ReviewIt's true; Marxists just wanna have fun...A revolutionary bestseller * Guardian *For every comic escapade of the carefree roustabout there is an equally eye-opening moment in the development of the future revolutionary leader. By the end of the journey, a politicized Guevara has emerged to predict his own legendary future * Time *The vision of the noble loner, whether freedom-fighter or biker...gives hope to world-weary revolutionaries and non-revolutionaries alike. * Telegraph *A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac * Washington Post *
£9.49
Penguin Books Ltd The Cosmography and Geography of Africa
Book SynopsisThe first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat''s guide to Africa.In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the process taking the name Johannes Leo Africanus. Acclaimed in the papal court for his learning, Leo would in time write his masterpiece, The Cosmography and the Geography of Africa.The Cosmography was the first book about Africa, and the first book written by a modern African, to reach print. It would remain central to the European understanding of Africa for over 300 years, with its descriptions of lands, cities and peoples giving a singular vision of the vast continent: its urban bustle and rural desolation, its culture, commerce and warfare, its magical herbs and strange animals.Yet it is not a mere catalogue of the exotic: Leo also invited his readers to acknowledge the similarity and relevance of these lands to the time and place they knew. For this reason, The Cosmography and Geography of Africa remains significant to our understanding not only of Africa, but of the world and how we perceive it.
£13.49
Yale University Press The Works of Samuel Johnson Vol 9
Book SynopsisIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
£104.50
Yale University Press Transports Travel Pleasure Imaginative
Book SynopsisIn this exploration of the era of the Grand Tour, contributors from the fields of history, art history, literary history and theory, science history and anthropology investigate the experiences of travellers and their ways of understanding and representing their encounter with the foreign.
£42.75
Random House USA Inc Eighty Days Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bislands
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLEROn November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day—and heading in the opposite direction by train—was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland. Each woman was determined to outdo Jules Verne’s fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days. The dramatic race that ensued would span twenty-eight thousand miles, captivate the nation, and change both competitors’ lives forever. The two women were a study in contrasts. Nellie Bly was a scrappy, hard-driving, ambitious reporter from Pennsylvania coal country who sought out the most sensational news stories, often going undercover to expose social injustice. Genteel and elegant, Elizabeth Bisland had be
£13.49
Little, Brown Book Group Chasing Mammon
Book SynopsisMoney as a weapon. Money as revenge. Money as a substitute for sex and love. Money as status ... This intriguing and extraordinarily well-written book is cheering for those of us who aren''t rich, and will go happily to our graves without ever pulling down 300,000 per annum'' Simon Hoggart, LITERARY REVIEW''How we chase Mammon defines us. Because, like it or not, we are what we earn,'' CHASING MAMMON is the first travel book ever written about the uses of money and the attitudes of the wheelers and dealers in the international marketplace. Douglas Kennedy spent a year loitering with intent in six very disparate financial realms, including the Casablanca bourse (where stocks and bonds are listed on a blackboard), the squeaky-clean Singapore money markets, the Sydney futures market and the first Hungarian stock exchange to open since 1948. From the ''New Age'' City folk in London, unsure whether greed really is good for you, to the tireless toilers of Wall Street, Knnedy''Trade ReviewA sparkling international excursion along the route of all evil * Lloyd Grossman, SUNDAY TIMES *A series of strangely poignant life-accounts from those who wait at the banquet but do not sit at the feast * NEW STATESMAN AND SOCIETY *A travel writer of witty talent and originality, who steers a risky but well-plotted course away from the obvioius .. a timely and engaging book * DUBLIN SUNDAY TRIBUNE *Fascinating and funny * TODAY *
£17.67
Random House USA Inc Travels in Alaska
Book SynopsisThe famed American adventurer, geologist, and naturalist recounts his experiences, impressions, and discoveries during four trips to Alaska between 1879 and 1890.
£13.99
WW Norton & Co Points Unknown The Greatest Adventure Writing of
Book Synopsis"A great treasure-trove of daunting human courage, frailty, and persistence in the face of the unknown."—Library JournalTrade Review"Points Unknown celebrates crampons, testosterone and the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity. I was gripped." Sara Wheeler, The Daily Telegraph - "This is a great volume, perfect for the armchair adventurer." The Sunday Times
£15.19
Methuen Publishing Ltd In Search of London
Book SynopsisIn his classic book on London, H. V. Morton turns his traveller's intuition and his reporter's eye for detail on the city that fascinated him since childhood.Trade Review" 'The master of his genre, often imitated but never matched. His books are genuine classics.' Jan Morris"
£10.44
Faber & Faber Europe
Book SynopsisEurope has been widely acclaimed as among the finest achievements of 'one of our greatest living writers' (The Times). A personal appreciation, fuelled by five decades of journeying, this is Jan Morris at her best - at once magisterial and particular, whimsical and profound. It is a matchless portrait of a continent.Trade Review"'This is Jan Morris's finest book.' Michael Leapman, Country Life 'At the height of her incomparable form... Imagine listening to a great raconteur on a good evening. The contributions are cogent, pertinent and articulate, controversial but never overbearing... Who would not wish to be of the company?' Michael Dibdin, Sunday Times"
£11.69
Faber & Faber Travels with a Typewriter A Reporter at Large
Book SynopsisIn mid-career, Michael Frayn took up his old trade of journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles for the Observer about some of the places in the world that interested him. He wanted to describe ''not the extraordinary but the ordinary, the typical, the everyday'', and his accounts became the starting point for some of the novels and plays he wrote later. From a kibbutz in Israel to summer rains in Japan, bicycles in Cambridge to Notting Hill at the end of the 1950s, they are glimpses of a world that sometimes seems tantalisingly familiar, sometimes vanished forever. Michael Frayn is the celebrated author of fifteen plays including Noises Off, Copenhagen and Afterlife. His bestselling novels include Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Spies, which won the Whitbread Best Novel Award and Skios, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. All writers of fiction should be
£8.54
Faber & Faber Caesars Vast Ghost
Book SynopsisLose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the idyllic South of France by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. ''Full of stories, landscapes, comedy, history, heresies, animals, food, drink, and songs of the Midi.' Patrick Leigh Fermor ''A richly characteristic bouillabaisse by our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean, our old Prospero of the south.'' Richard Holmes Provence, Southern France. Celebrated writer and poet Lawrence Durrell made the Midi his home for more than thirty years: and in his final book, he shares his most evocative, dazzling memories of life as a local. A seductive blend of travelogue, poet''s notebook, and intimate autobiography, Durrell guides us through the rich layers of human history that lie beneath the region''s legendary landscapes. From stories of magic and mythology infusing the rolling vineyards and vivid lavender fieldsTrade Review'Full of stories, landscapes, comedy, history, heresies, animals, food, drink, and songs of the Midi.' - Patrick Leigh Fermor
£9.49
Faber & Faber Prosperos Cell
Book SynopsisLose yourself in this glorious memoir of the island jewel of Corfu by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.''In its gem-like miniature quality, among the best books ever written.'' New York TimesIn his youth, before he became a celebrated writer and poet, Lawrence Durrell spent four transformative years on the island jewel of Corfu, fascinated by the idyllic natural beauty and blood-stained ancient history within its rocky shores.While his brother Gerald collected animals as a budding naturalist - later fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals and filmed as The Durrells in Corfu - Lawrence fished, drank and befriended the local villagers.After World War II catapulted him back into a turmoiled world, Durrell never forgot the wonders of Corfu. Prospero''s Cell is his magical evocation of the blazing Aegean landscape, brimming with memories of the places and pTrade Review'Invades the reader's every sense ... Remarkable.' - Victoria Hislop'These days I am admiring and re-admiring Lawrence Durrell.' - Elif Shafak'Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.' - Richard Holmes'Corfu could not have found a fitter chronicler.' - Daily Telegraph'A charming idyll ... Delightful.' - Sunday Times
£10.44
Faber & Faber Reflections on a Marine Venus
Book SynopsisLose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the Greek island of Rhodes after World War II by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. ''A magician ... Durrell enchants.'' The Times ''A lovely book ... Makes people feel happy ... [So] pleasurable.'' Observer ''A poet's intoxication with landscape, a humanist's appetite for history, and an eye for character worthy of a novelist He excites a longing to leave for Rhodes at once.' Sunday TimesWorld War II is finally over, and after four torturous years serving the Crown in Egypt, Lawerence Durrell seeks peace in the landscapes he has loved ever since his youth in Corfu: Mediterranean islands. He is posted to the Greek island of Rhodes, and from his first dip in the dazzling blue Aegean - which jolts his soul awake for the first time in years - he immerses himself in the rhythms and moods of localTrade Review'Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.' - Richard Holmes'Masterly ... Casts a spell.' - Jan Morris'Incandescent.' - Andre Aciman'Invades the reader's every sense ... Remarkable.' - Victoria Hislop'A poet's intoxication with landscape, a humanist's appetite for history, and an eye for character worthy of a novelist . He excites a longing to leave for Rhodes at once.' - Sunday Times
£9.49
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies Worlds of Knowledge in Womens Travel Writing
Book SynopsisWorlds of Knowledge rediscovers the works of authors from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and challenges the frequent focus in travel studies on English-language texts. Written by experts in a wide range of fields, this interdisciplinary volume sheds new light on the range, innovation, and erudition of travel narratives by women.
£15.26
British Library Publishing The Globetrotter Victorian Excursions in India
Book SynopsisThe fascinating story of the first generation of 'Globetrotters' - leisure tourists with a keen interest in experiencing authentic culture, brought to life with first hand accounts and beautiful illustrations of the views and artefacts of their travels.
£35.82
Lutterworth Press We Etruscans Old and New in a Forgotten Landscape
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£25.20
John Murray Press The Story of San Michele
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary and enduring memoir of Axel Munthe, a travel bestseller since first published in 1929, captures the spirit and feel of an eraTrade ReviewOne of the most fascinating of books, wise in its appraisal of men, overflowing with humour and edged with irony, sharper than a surgeon's knife. There are chapters which are veritable de Maupassant plots in their concise and dramatic realism. * New York Herald Tribune *Told with a power and an honesty which makes this a very remarkable document. * TLS *The Story of San Michele has style, wit, humour, great knowledge of the world, mixed with that strange simplicity of mind that is often the attribute of genius. * Observer *Romantic, realistic, pitiful and enchanting, this is the record of a citadel of the soul ... all fantasy does it seem? Impossible? Absurd? But San Michele stands there on the hill for witness. A miracle? Well, every work of art is a miracle, and every beautiful thing the shrine of a realized dream. * Daily Telegraph *A most interesting and lovable revelation, enchantingly described. * Punch *I have found Dr Munthe's reminiscences intensely interesting and enjoyable, and it is hard to convey their charm of mingled pathos and humour or their multiplicity of appeal. * Illustrated London News *It is an amazing book: wonderfully beautiful at times, appallingly horrible at others. For horrors he rivals Poe, recounting his gruesome experiences with a quiet simplicity which is strikingly effective. * Western Mail *'A beautifully written series of episodes from Paris to Capri, ...recounting the author's struggle to discover what he desires from life.' - Matthew Linnecar * Geographical *There is enough material here to furnish the writers of sensational short stories with plots for the rest of their lives. * Daily News *
£10.44
The Crowood Press Ltd Politics of Washing
Book SynopsisThe beautiful city of Venice has been a fantasy land for people from around the globe for centuries, but when Polly Coles and her family left England for Venice, they discovered a city caught between modern and ancient life. The Politics of Washing is a fascinating window into the strange and unique place Venetians call home.Trade Review'No one should go to Venice without reading this book.' Blueguides.com 'No book as thoughtful, perceptive and humane on Venice...has appeared since William Dean Howells wrote his Venetian Life in 1886.' -- Jonathan Keates Times Literary Supplement 'More cerebral than most Venetian travelogues or fictions...Coles clearly has ample knowledge but also the wit to have travelled light.' -- Caroline Jackson The Spectator 'Eloquent.' The New York Times 'A riveting account of ordinary life in an extraordinary place, packed with charming anecdotes that will have readers hooked on Venetian life.' -- Woodburn Independent 'The Politics of Washing is a readable memoir, at times funny, enjoyable, and feels very real.' Luxury Reading 'A funny, humbling tale of one family's attempt to live in one of the most beautiful places in the world.' Cayocosta72 Book Reviews Paul White, deputy vice-chancellor, University of Sheffield, is reading Polly Coles' The Politics of Washing: Real Life in Venice (Robert Hale, 2013). "Coles' background is in teaching and anthropology, and she recently moved with her family (including her Italian husband) to Venice. Here she brilliantly unmasks the prejudices and idiosyncrasies of the Venetians themselves, as well as mass tourism's impact on the city. Coping with Italian bureaucracy is never easy, but the added complexities of formal and informal rules governing life in a city that is slowly dying as a real place of residence are fascinating. Recommended for anyone about to visit or revisit Venice: I've been there many times and I now see the city in new ways." -- Paul White Times Higher Education
£9.49
Edinburgh University Press Highland Journeys
Book Synopsis`Simple congratulations are in order at the outset, to the editors and publisher [...] of the projected Collected Works of James Hogg. It has taken a long time for Hogg to be recognised as one of the most notable Scottish writers, and it can fairly be said that the process of getting him into full and clear focus is still far from complete. That process is immeasurably helped by the provision of proper and unbowdlerised texts (in many cases for the first time), and in this the ongoing Collected Works with be a milestone [..] we have an author of unique interest, force, and originality.''Edwin Morgan, Scottish Literary Journal`Edinburgh University Press are also to be praised for the elegant presentation of the books. It is wonderful that at last we are going to have a collected edition of this important author without bowdlerisation or linguistic interference [...]. These books of Hogg have been wonderfully presented and edited. Hogg''s own idiosyncratic style has been left untouched.''Ian Crichton Smith, Studies in Scottish Literature`It may take some time, but when the current Collected Works reaches its culmination, Hogg''s great novel should seem a little less oddly unique, and some other astounding books [...] may receive their share of belated glory.''Liam Mcillvanney, London Review of Books`[T]he Stirling/South Carolina edition of Hogg''s works is proving one of the major scholarly publishing events of the decade.'' Penny Fielding, Studies in Hogg and his World`A quiet revolution in Scottish literary studies has been going on over the past 10 years. The Stirling/South Carolina research edition of the collected works of James Hogg has been steadily forcing a reassessment of one of our best-known but least-read authors.''James Robertson, The HeraldHogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804. Here he vividly depicts his experiences, including a narrow escape from a Navy press-gang, and the scene during preparations for Sacrament Day with one minister preaching in English and another in Gaelic. Hogg also explains aspects of Gaelic culture such as the waulking songs, and he describes the trade in kelp, lucrative to the landowners but back-breaking and ill-paid for the workers. Hogg had hoped to become a sheep-farmer on the Isle of Harris. At the same time he was concerned about the depopulation of the Highlands and was critical of negligent or absentee landlords. Highland Journeys makes a refreshing contribution to our understanding of early nineteenth-century travel writing.`Chastity, carnality, carnage and carnivorousness are among his favourite subjects, and dance together in his writings to the music of a divided life. [...] The later-eighteenth century was a time when [Scotland] had taken to producing writers and thinkers of world consequence. One of these - though long disregarded as such, long unimaginable as such - was Hogg.''Karl Miller, Times Literary Supplement`The Ettrick Shepherd [...] was much more comfortable to be with than James Hogg, the author of obsessive, experimental fictions which either satirised or ignored the decencies of polite letters. To some degree even these could be bowdlerised and domesticated, as many of them were in the Victorian collections of Hogg''s fiction published after his death, and passed off as written by `the Ettrick Shepherd''. But one in particular, and for my money the best of them---TheThree Perils of Woman - was immediately recognised as irredeemable by its first reviewers, and until last year had never been reprinted. [...] [The new] collected edition [...] will eventually run to some thirty volumes. The first three came out last year [in 1995], and are magnificent: spaciously designed, scrupulously edited and thoughtfully introduced, with Antony Hasler''s Introduction to The Three Perils of Woman especially illuminating. The two volumes published along with The Three Perils of Woman are much less disturbing than that book but immensely engaging. The Shepherd''s Calendar is a volume of anecdotes and sketches or rural life in the Borders [...]. A Queer Book is a volume of poems. [...] There is a strangeness about some of these poems that recalls the self-consciousness of Hogg''s best fiction.'' John Barrell, The London Review of Books`Everything about the Edinburgh-Scott is clear, and coherent; when one argues with its premises, one does so at least from a position of confident understanding of their rationale. The same can be said of the exemplary Stirling/South Carolina Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg. The case is both similar and different, here, however: a major Scottish writer whose work has never been subject to serious editorial scrutiny is being put on the map internationally (it can be no surprise that both editions have received co-sponsorship and substantial funding from the United States); in complete contrast to the Edinburgh Waverley, in Hogg''s case we have a collected edition containing works some of which have never previously been reprinted, and for which there is no complex textual evolution to be encountered and negotiated. Unlike other volumes in the Stirling/South Carolina Edition, the Lay Sermons are textually very simple [...]. This is a welcome addition to the series, essential to its completeness, but not one of the most exciting of the volumes. It is hard to see it arousing the same level of critical discussion as has followed the re-publication of The Three Perils of Woman under the joint editorship of David Groves, Antony Hasler, and Douglas Mack, for example, or Gillian Hughes''s previous volume, Tales of the Wars of Montrose. Even here, some of Hogg''s characteristic narrative complexities surface, however. [...] It is a little hard to know what to do with such apparently wanton and provocative narratorial disturbance, the more so as it does not seem to issue in corresponding equivocation in the body of the Sermons themselves. The editor, wisely it seems to me, refrains from attempting a resolution of the inconsistency at this point; it is a notable example of the restraint and good judgment which characterizes her work, a measuredness that keeps it well clear of the strain of over-ingenious interpretation which has accompanied Hogg''s just re-positioning at the centre of nineteenth-century Scottish literary-critical scrutiny over the past few years.'' Susan Manning, Eighteenth-Century ScotlandTrade ReviewThis publication of the original texts in full, with further details and themed essays, throws fascinating new light on the area and our understanding of 18th-century travel writing. -- Country Life Magazine This publication of the original texts in full, with further details and themed essays, throws fascinating new light on the area and our understanding of 18th-century travel writing.
£85.50
Orion Publishing Co The Wilder Shores Of Love
Book SynopsisThe classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa.Trade ReviewTheir true stories, first told grippingly by Blanch in 1954, are amazing...makes you realise that we, with our wimpish long-haul packages and compulsory travel insurance, don't know we're born. -- Val Hennessy * DAILY MAIL *
£9.99
McFarland & Company Americans and the Making of the Riviera
Book SynopsisFrom the inception of American tourism in the late 18th century, this volume explores over 200 years of American fascination with the French Riviera. Beginning with Thomas Jefferson who visited the south of France in 1787, it follows America's journey from a tourist minority to one of the formative forces of this resort region.
£29.41
National Geographic Kids How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis
Book SynopsisAppealing art and descriptive text bring Lewis and Clark alive for young adventurers. Carefully chosen text from Lewis and Cark's actual journals opens a fascinating window into this country's exciting history.
£7.70
University of Toronto Press A Happy Holiday
Book SynopsisA Happy Holiday argues that overseas tourism offered people the chance to explore questions of identity during this period, a time in which issues such as gender, nation, and empire were the subject of much public debate and discussion.Trade Review'Morgan's valuable study of English Canadians and transatlantic tourism in the early decades of the Dominion combines travel literature, tourism history, and attitudinal studies... It makes an important contribution to our understanding of tourism, of cultural bonds within British Empire, and of identity formation in Canada's early decade.' -- Edward MacDonald H-Canada July 20, 2011
£70.55
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma The Diario of Christopher Columbuss First Voyage
Book SynopsisThis edition of the "Diario" is the first translation based on the original manuscript, which is an abstraction done in the 1530s by Las Casas from a poor copy of Columbus' journal. The Spanish text is complete with strike-outs, interpolations and corrections.
£26.06
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Colossus of Maroussi
Book SynopsisHenry Miller’s landmark travel book, now reissued in a new edition, is ready to be stuffed into any vagabond’s backpack.Trade Review"One of the five greatest travel books of all time. (Pico Iyer) Miller captures the spirit and warmth of the resilient Greek people in his story of a wartime journey from Athens to Crete. (National Geographic) Miller’s Colossus of Maroussi, a paean to Greece drawn out of a nine-month visit…is the gestation time for a human and, in Miller’s case, for the imaginative re-creation of a country, a culture and his own fierce energies. (Richard Eder, The New York Times)"
£11.39
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Radicals on the Road The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s
Book SynopsisIn the 1930s, the discourse of travel furthered divergent and conflicting ideologies and travel writers of the time revealed as much in their texts. This study explores both the intentional political rhetoric and the more oblique, almost unconscious subtexts of Waugh, Orwell, Greene and West.
£27.30
Syracuse University Press Turkey Egypt and Syria
Book SynopsisVividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli¯ Nu‘ma¯ni¯ (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian, Nu‘ma¯ni¯ took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and manuscripts.Trade ReviewA work of surprising complexity. The detailed notes, the appendices, the multilingual and multinational research that the translator has done. . . . The results have made the translation far more usefully accessible than the plain text could ever have been, as a primary source for scholars of Middle Eastern intellectual and cultural history of the period. Nu‘mani was one of India’s most creative and enterprising intellectuals at the turn of the 20th century. His travelogue to the Ottoman lands, a classic of Urdu literature, is a riveting account of his experiences as he met a wide range of individuals, visited schools and libraries, and collected scholarly materials with enthusiasm. Bruce’s lucid translation, supported by excellent notes and appendices, is without question a work that will at once inform and entertain. Bruce achieved a masterful translation of an influential late 19th century Urdu text of Shibli Noumani, his travel account of Turkey, Egypt and Syria in 1892. Readings an Indian Muslims proud observations of progress and reform in the ethnically mixed cities ruled by Ottoman Caliph Abdulhamid II will be essential to understand the late 19th century Pan-Islamism during an era of empire, race and geopolitics.
£28.86
Syracuse University Press Turkey Egypt and Syria
Book SynopsisVividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli¯ Nu‘ma¯ni¯ (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian, Nu‘ma¯ni¯ took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and manuscripts.Trade ReviewA work of surprising complexity. The detailed notes, the appendices, the multilingual and multinational research that the translator has done. . . . The results have made the translation far more usefully accessible than the plain text could ever have been, as a primary source for scholars of Middle Eastern intellectual and cultural history of the period. Nu‘mani was one of India’s most creative and enterprising intellectuals at the turn of the 20th century. His travelogue to the Ottoman lands, a classic of Urdu literature, is a riveting account of his experiences as he met a wide range of individuals, visited schools and libraries, and collected scholarly materials with enthusiasm. Bruce’s lucid translation, supported by excellent notes and appendices, is without question a work that will at once inform and entertain. Bruce achieved a masterful translation of an influential late 19th century Urdu text of Shibli Noumani, his travel account of Turkey, Egypt and Syria in 1892. Readings an Indian Muslims proud observations of progress and reform in the ethnically mixed cities ruled by Ottoman Caliph Abdulhamid II will be essential to understand the late 19th century Pan-Islamism during an era of empire, race and geopolitics.
£53.55
The University of Alabama Press On the Trail of the Maya Explorer Tracing the
Book SynopsisIn 1839, John Lloyd Stephens and his travelling companion Frederick Catherwood ventured into the rain forest of Guatemala and braved Indian uprisings, road agents, heat and biting insects in search of the remains of the artistic and cultural civilization of the Maya.
£29.95
The University of Alabama Press The Winter Sailor Francis RStebbins on Floridas
Book SynopsisThis historical adventure details the yearly winter travels of Francis R. Stebbins to Florida's Indian River, from 1878 to 1888. What Stebbins enjoyed most was sailing down the river interviewing townspeople and examining local attractions as he went. He documents a decade of change to the Indian River wilderness.Trade ReviewThe material... provides a wonderful record of the shifting of the coastal lands through that time period, as inlets open and close and human land use shifts accordingly and in response to newly developed technologies. - Patricia C. Griffin, author of Mullet on the Beach: The Minorcans of Florida, 1768-1788
£25.95
University of Alabama Press On the Trail of the Maya Explorer
Book SynopsisIn October 1839, American travel writer John Lloyd Stephens climbed upon a mule in the Mico Mountains of eastern Guatemala to explore an obscure land with ""volcanoes and earthquakes, torn and distracted by civil war."" This title looks at his epic journey to find and describe the lost cities of the Maya.Trade ReviewAuthor Steve Glassman retraces Stephens' route, visiting the same Maya ruins, Spanish colonial towns, markets, and churches, many of them hardly changed in the 170 years since Stephens and Catherwood visited. Intertwining history, anthropology, and the environment, Glassman presents a wonderful tale of Stephens' adventure and his own. This is a fun and informative book for lovers of Mesoamerica who are drawn to the mysteries of the ancient and modern Maya. - American Archaeology
£26.96
University of Missouri Press Mark Twain in Paradise His Voyages to Bermuda
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of Clemens's love affair with Bermuda, a depiction of a celebrated author on recurring vacations. This book sheds light on both Clemens's complex character and the topography and history of the islands. He offers insight into Bermuda's natural environment, traditional stone houses, and romantic past.Trade ReviewA superior travel book.... Bermuda (or at least Mark Twain's Bermuda) became distinct and detailed to me for the first time.... Twainians will want to read it and will talk up its virtues. - Louis Budd, author of Mark Twain: Social Philosopher
£43.65
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Travel Report
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£25.46
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Sahara and Sudan
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£106.25
Eland Publishing Ltd A Cure for Serpents
Book SynopsisThe Duke of Pirajno arrived in North Africa in 1924. For the next eighteen years his experiences as a doctor in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somaliland, provided him with opportunities and experiences rarely given to a European. He brings us stories of noble chieftains and celebrated courtesans, of Berber princes and Tuareg entertainers, of giant elephants, and a lioness who fell in love with the author.
£12.74
Poppyland Publishing MR Martens Travels in East Anglia The 1825 Journal of Robert Humphrey Marten Norfolk Documents
£15.70
Sam Manicom Distant Suns Adventure in the Vastness of Africa
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Cambridge University Press Women Writing and Travel in the Eighteenth Century
Book SynopsisThe eighteenth century witnessed the publication of an unprecedented number of voyages and travels, genuine and fictional. Within a genre distinguished by its diversity, curiosity, and experimental impulses, Katrina O''Loughlin investigates not just how women in the eighteenth century experienced travel, but also how travel writing facilitated their participation in literary and political culture. She canvases a range of accounts by intrepid women, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu''s Turkish Embassy Letters, Lady Craven''s Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, Eliza Justice''s A Voyage to Russia, and Anna Maria Falconbridge''s Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone. Moving from Ottoman courts to theatres of war, O''Loughlin shows how gender frames access to people and spaces outside Enlightenment and Romantic Britain, and how travel provides women with a powerful cultural form for re-imagining their place in the world.Trade Review'Impressive in its geographical scope … this valuable contribution to studies in travel writing reanimates crucial voices in eighteenth-century literature and culture. Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century would interest scholars focused on alternative literary histories of subjectivity (as distinct from the novel), premodern travel writing, women's writing, eighteenth-century colonial discourse, the emergence of a secular middle class, politics and British aristocratic identity, eighteenth-century Russia and the Levant, and more.' Laura Williamson Ambrose, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary JournalTable of Contents'The paper globe': women, writing, and travel in the eighteenth century; 1. 'A very diligent curiosity': Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Embassy Letters; 2. 'Wrecked on seas of ink': publicity and sovereignty of taste in Lady Craven's Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople; 3. 'Entre nous': the sociability of feeling in Jane Vigor's Letters from a Lady in Russia; 4. 'No small wonder to see myself in print': virtuous commerce and Eliza Justice's A Voyage to Russia; 5. 'My Travels have been to the Moon and the Stars': Janet Schaw's journal and Atlantic sociability; 6. 'Thorns and thistles': Anna Maria Falconbridge's Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone; Conclusion. La 'Dame pensive'.
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Cambridge University Press The Journal of a Tour to Corsica And Memoirs of Pascal Paoli
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1923, this book presents the complete text of James Boswell's 1768 work, The Journal of a Tour to Corsica. An editorial introduction is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Corsica, travel writing and the works of Boswell.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Note on the text; The journal of a tour to Corsica.
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Cambridge University Press The Last of the Arctic Voyages Volume 1 Being a Narrative of the Expedition in HMS EMAssistanceEM under the Library Collection Polar Exploration
Book SynopsisWhen the experienced Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786â1847) was put in command of an expedition in 1845 to search for the elusive North-West Passage he had the backing of the Admiralty and was equipped with two specially-adapted ships and a three-year supply of provisions. Franklin was last seen by whalers in Baffin Bay in July 1845. When the expedition failed to return in 1848, enormous resources were mobilised to try to discover its fate. In 1852 H.M.S. 'Assistance' was sent to lead another search mission. It was captained by Edward Belcher (1799â1877), who eventually took the decision to abandon four ships in the pack-ice. He recounts his unsuccessful adventure, defending his actions against critics, in this illustrated two-volume book, first published in 1855, which also includes scientific contributions. Volume 1 describes Belcher's outward journey, Arctic animals such as walruses and whales, and the effects of extreme cold.Table of ContentsPreface; Preliminary; 1. At sea; 2. Anchor at Upernavik; 3. Native dogs; 4. Frozen in; 5. Retreat; 6. The 'Assistance'; 7. Transit telescope; 8. Short days; 9. Rise of temperature; 10. The cairn; 11. Inconvenient elevation; 12. Hamilton Depot; 13. Open water; 14. First symptom of winter.
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Cambridge University Press The Last of the Arctic Voyages Volume 2 Being a Narrative of the Expedition in HMS Assistance Being a Narrative of the Expedition in HMS Library Collection Polar Exploration
Book SynopsisWhen the experienced Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786â1847) was put in command of an expedition in 1845 to search for the elusive North-West Passage he had the backing of the Admiralty and was equipped with two specially-adapted ships and a three-year supply of provisions. Franklin was last seen by whalers in Baffin Bay in July 1845. When the expedition failed to return in 1848, enormous resources were mobilised to try to discover its fate. In 1852 H.M.S. 'Assistance' was sent to lead another search mission. It was captained by Edward Belcher (1799â1877), who recounts his unsuccessful adventure in this illustrated two-volume book, first published in 1855. Volume 2 covers, and attempts to justify, Belcher's much-criticised decision to abandon four ships in the pack-ice. It also contains Belcher's views on reports of cannibalism among Franklin's crew, as well as scientific observations and a fascinating list of provisions.Table of Contents1. Return of Osborn; 2. Moor in-shore; 3. Run of the ice; 4. Increase of temperature; 5. Land reached; 6. Dangers of autumn; 7. Lifting of the ship; 8. Thaw; 9. Import of instructions; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press Narrative of Travels in Europe Asia and Africa in the Seventeenth Century Volume 2 Cambridge Library Collection Travel Europe
Book SynopsisThis two-volume English translation of part of a longer narrative by the Ottoman Evliya Çelebi (1611c.1680) was published in 1834. It offers a fascinating assemblage of topics varying from the fountains of Istanbul to a journey to Georgia. Volume 2 includes Çelebi's description of the 1645 siege of Canea.Table of Contents1. Journey to Brussa; 2. Journey to Nicomedia; 3. Journey to Batum and Trebisonde; 4. Journey to Georgia and Mingrelia; 5. Journey to Azak (Assov.); 6. Journey to Crimea; 7. Expedition against Malta in the year 1055 (1645); 8. Journey to Erzerum; 9. Journey from Nakhshivan to Tabriz; 10. Journey from Tabriz to Erivan; 11. Journey to Georgia; 12. Journey to Erivan in the year 1057 (1647); 13. Journey to Baiburd, Janja, Isper, Tortum and Akchekala'a.
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Cambridge University Press Accidents of an Antiquarys Life
Book SynopsisThe archaeologist D. G. Hogarth (18621927) became the keeper of Ashmolean Museum and president of the Royal Geographical Society. This 1910 account of his travels and excavations in Turkey, Egypt, and Crete, intended for a popular audience, remains a highly readable account of the practicalities behind his intellectual career.Trade Review'Hogarth's writing is lively, conversational and charmingly self-effacing … a fascinating insight into the beginnings of his long and remarkably eventful career.' Current ArchaeologyTable of ContentsPreface; Introductory - apology of an apprentice; 1. An interlude; 2. Lycia; 3. Crete; 4. Nile fens; 5. The Satalian Gulf; 6. Cyrene; 7. Digging; 8. The Sajur; Hittite Problems and the Excavation of Carchemish (1911).
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Cambridge University Press Personal Narrative of A Pilgrimage to ElMedinah and Meccah Volume 1 ElMisr Cambridge Library Collection Travel Middle East and Asia Minor
Book SynopsisThe British explorer Sir Richard F. Burton (1821â90) was a colourful and often controversial character. A talented linguist and keen ethnologist, he worked in India during the 1840s as an interpreter and intelligence officer for General Sir Charles Napier, and published several books about his experiences in 1851â2. He first gained celebrity, however, for his adventurous 1853 trip to Mecca, under the disguise of a pilgrim, which is described in this lively three-volume publication (1855â6). Few Europeans had ever visited the Muslim holy places; one of them was John Lewis Burckhardt, whose 1829 account is also reissued in this series. Volume 1 of Burton's book describes his arrival in Egypt, the weeks he spent in Alexandria and Cairo polishing his linguistic and cultural skills, and how, at the end of Ramadan, he travelled to Suez by camel, and from there by boat to Yanbu al-Bahr.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. To Alexandria; 2. I leave Alexandria; 3. The Nile steam boat; 4. Life in the Wakálah; 5. The Ramazán; 6. The mosque; 7. Preparations to quit Cairo; 8. From Cairo to Suez; 9. Suez; 10. The pilgrim ship; 11. To Yambu; 12. The halt at Yambu; 13. From Yambu to Bir Abbas.
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