Travel guides: museums, historic sites Books
Getty Trust Publications In Focus Hill and Adamson Photographs from the
Book SynopsisThis volume contains photographs from The Getty Museum by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. During their association Hill and Adamson experimented with some of the earliest calotype processes creating hundreds of portraits, staged dramatic photographs, and landscape images.
£16.14
Getty Trust Publications Seeing the Getty Gardens Getty Trust Publications
Book SynopsisThe photographs in these two volumes present an impressionistic view of the Getty Center and its grounds. One book concentrates on the Getty Center site, including its architecture and galleries. The second captures the Center's gardens and landscaping.
£18.04
Getty Trust Publications Seeing the Getty Villa
Book SynopsisAimed at the lovers of architecture, photography and ancient art, this souvenir book aimes to capture the architecture and grounds of the renovated Getty Villa. Illustrated with more than seventy colour photographs, it guides the readers through the site - beginning with the cobblestone 'Roman road' through the refurbished Museum building.
£11.77
The University of North Carolina Press Tales from the Haunted South
Book SynopsisExplores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of ghost tours, frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the US South. Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Tiya Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain.Trade ReviewShines a valuable light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and on how the ghosts of the past are still with us."" - North Carolina Historical Review""Imagery portrayed within each story . . . will keep readers on the edge of their seats in anticipation of the next sentence, waiting to hear how each narrative plays out."" - Choice""A page-turner. . . . Should serve as a call to historic sites to undertake the hard work of telling complex stories about the past that enable visitors to gain a deeper understanding of the complexity of African American lives under slavery. . . . Highly recommend[ed] . . . to public historians, scholars of slavery and its current-day legacies, and anyone interested in the gothic South."" - Journal of Southern History
£21.21
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Telling Our Stories Museum of Mississippi
Book SynopsisIn December 2017, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History will open two state-of-the-art museums - the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. This companion book highlights some of the Mississippi stories captured in the two museums. The book also tells the story behind the museum project, honoring those who made these museums possible.
£21.21
Cornell University Press Memories of War
Book SynopsisEven in the midst of the Civil War, its battlefields were being dedicated as hallowed ground. Today, those sites are among the most visited places in the United States. In contrast, the battlegrounds of the Revolutionary War had seemingly been forgotten in the aftermath of the conflict in which the nation forged its independence. Decades after the signing of the Constitution, the battlefields of Yorktown, Saratoga, Fort Moultrie, Ticonderoga, Guilford Courthouse, Kings Mountain, and Cowpens, among others, were unmarked except for crumbling forts and overgrown ramparts. Not until the late 1820s did Americans begin to recognize the importance of these places. In Memories of War, Thomas A. Chambers recounts America's rediscovery of its early national history through the rise of battlefield tourism in the first half of the nineteenth century. Travelers in this period, Chambers finds, wanted more than recitations of regimental movements when they visited battlefields; they Trade ReviewSolidly researched and clearly written.... Chambers has moved the debate about public memory into new territory. This is a valuable book that demands respect from historians of the early republic. * Journal of American History *Chambers explores how and why key American battlefields became memorials and tourist attractions, and the potentially powerful psychological and emotional effect these sites can have on visitors evoking the past.... His descriptions demonstrate first-hand knowledge of each place as well as deep research into primary sources. Fascinating and original, this is recommended to scholars and informed readers of American military and cultural history. * Library Journal *Elegantly written and imaginatively researched, Chambers's book draws a welcome connection between constructions of memory and individual encounters with place. The book is especially illuminating when the author grounds visitors' particular perceptions of place in their prevailing hopes and anxieties, such as in his excellent final chapter set amid the bitter section controversy of the 1850s. * William and Mary Quarterly *This fascinating study is ideal reading for the ongoing sesquicentennial of the Civil War and bicentennial of the War of 1812. It offers a close examination of just how overgrown fields and crumbling fortresses came to be reclaimed as objects worthy of preservation and visitation. * The Weekly Standard *Thomas A. Chambers makes a significant contribution to the field of memory studies with his treatment of early American battlefield tourism, commemoration, and preservation. Chambers's study relies heavily on the accounts of early travelers to the battlefields of the Seven Years' War, American Revolution, and War of 1812 in New York, Virginia, South Carolina, and Canada. Memories of War: Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early American Republic is an excellent book that makes an important contribution to understanding the preservation and commemoration of these historic battlefields. * The Journal of Southern History *Thomas Chambers's engaging and illuminating book describes an era when Americans had little interest in either preserving or touring sites, such as Fort Ticonderoga and Yorktown, that have become gems of America's heritage.. The research on which Chambers draws includes diaries, guidebooks, speeches, art, and his own visits to every battlefield from the Seven Years' War through the War of 1812 cited in his book. * The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography *Makes a useful scholarly contribution as an informative excavation of place and memory in the early American republic. * Journal of the Early Republic *Chambers's enthusiasm for visiting and studying battlefields has spurred him to write a thoroughly reseached volume that goes a long way toward explaining how, for better or worse, American nationalism became rooted in blood-soaked ground. * The New England Quarterly *Chambers presents rich descriptions of iconic figures and their battles as well as details of contemporary travel, accommodations, and experiences in voices of time. A fine study accompanied by maps, renderings of landscapes and battlefields, and portraits of protagonists that illustrate how the meaning of historic places and memory changed, as did the motivation for visiting them between the 1760s and 1850s. * Choice *His sources are rich with personal interactions with battlefields: speeches given at dedications, guide books, and perhaps most compellingly, diaries and letters of visitors to the fields.... Chambers not only explains how those of the Early Republic came to construct memories of their past, but he also inspires public historians to think about how contemporary visitors do the same. * The Public Historian *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction. Yorktown's Centennial: The Changing Nature of Battlefield Tourism and CommemorationChapter 1. Accidental Tourists: The Bonefields of Braddock’s Defeat and TiconderogaChapter 2. Forsaken Graves: The Emergence of Memory on the Northern TourChapter 3. Retrieved Relics and New Monuments: Lafayette in YorktownChapter 4. Memory without Tourism: Traces of the Southern CampaignsChapter 5. American Antiquities Are So Rare: Remembering the War of 1812 on the Niagara FrontierChapter 6. The Value of Union: Antebellum Commemoration and the Coming of the Civil WarNotesIndex
£15.19
University of Minnesota Press A Natural Curiosity: The Story of the Bell Museum
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated tour of Minnesota’s premier natural history museum after 150 years From its humble start in 1872 as a one-room cabinet of curiosities, the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum of natural history has grown to be one of the state’s most important cultural institutions. Within its walls are displayed the natural wonders of Minnesota and the world beyond, a standing invitation to explore, understand, and appreciate our natural environment—and, for visitors of all ages, both seasoned observers and curious onlookers, to experience the delight of discovery. A Natural Curiosity is a tale well told, a lively ride across 150 years of important scientific advancement. Drawing on a wealth of materials unearthed during the museum’s recent move to its new building, this gorgeously illustrated book chronicles the remarkable discoveries, moments, and personalities that have made the Bell Museum what it is today. Among the stories of ornithologists, botanists, tycoons, and conservationists, readers will encounter the magnificent dioramas created by renowned artist Francis Lee Jaques, the adventures behind some of the Bell’s more curious specimens (like the bones of Philippine orangutans and moonrats, a high-flying moose, and a simple fungi sample that saved a man’s life), and the dramatic accounts of the critical advances made by the museum in wildlife telemetry, conservation biology, and scientific learning—all in defense of our planet’s threatened biodiversity. In a photographic finale, readers will be treated to a tour of the new, reimagined museum, complete with the planetarium that inspired one Minnesota boy to become a NASA astronaut.From its conception as part of a state-mandated geological and natural history survey, to its most recent ventures into technology, environmental science, and DNA sequencing, the Bell Museum has informed, explained, and expanded our relationship to the natural world. Its story, engagingly told in A Natural Curiosity, reveals and explores the profound changes undergone by society, science, and the natural landscape over the museum’s lifetime.Trade Review"The book is beautiful, with full-color pages packed with illustrations and photos."—Racket"Drawing on a wealth of materials unearthed during the museum’s recent move to its new building, this gorgeously illustrated book chronicles the remarkable discoveries, moments, and personalities that have made the Bell Museum what it is today."—The Timberjay"The story of this natural history museum is well told in the lavishly illustrated volume."—Minnesota Alumni"This volume documenting the 150-year history of the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum is a must for your coffee table so you can easily dip into the stories behind our state's only natural history museum."—MSP Home & Design"A Natural Curiosity serves as a well-written and abundantly illustrated introduction to the history of the Bell Museum."—H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsContentsForewordFord W. BellIntroductionBell Museum Timeline1. A Museum is Born, 1872–1940Documenting Minnesota: The Geological and Natural History SurveyThe Menage Expedition: How Orangutan Bones Landed in the Bell Museum CollectionsJosephine Tilden: Paving the Way for Women in ScienceT. S. Roberts: Naturalist, Doctor, DirectorMaking a Museum for the Public: The Early Dioramas2. Growing an Institution, 1920s–1950sThe Many Talents of Walter BreckenridgeEarly Public Education: Reaching “the whole people . . .”James Ford Bell: The Man Behind the NameHeyday of the Dioramas: Windows into NatureTaking Flight: The Artistic Journey of Francis Lee Jaques3. Wildlife Explorations, 1940s–1980sAt the Poles: Arctic and Antarctic ResearchThe Bride Wore . . . Boots?Migrations: The Life and Times of Dwain WarnerTracking Nature: The Rise of Wildlife TelemetryMystery of the Missing Toads4. The Museum in the Environmental Era, 1960s–1990sTouch and See: Pioneering Hands-On LearningPublic Programs: From Education to EngagementInterpreting Nature: The Student Guide ProgramFrom Student Guide to College ProfessorMaking Movies: Reaching a Bigger AudienceHoneybees on the Roof: Sweetening Science EducationWidening the Inquiry: Bringing together Ecology, Evolution, and BehaviorNature vs Nurture: Frank McKinney and the Evolution of Animal BehaviorMinnesota’s Rarest: Naming the State’s Endangered Flora and FaunaFlight of the Peregrine: Bud Tordoff and the Return of an Endangered SpeciesArt and Natural History: The Evolution of a LegacyScience through the Lens of Art: Resident Artists at the BellChange Comes to the “Eternal” Museum: Temporary and Traveling Exhibits5. Rediscovering the Collections, 1980s–2022Collections offer Clues to Environmental ChallengesA Botanical Treasure: The University of Minnesota HerbariumThe DNA Revolution Comes to the Bell MuseumRe-thinking the Tree of LifeBell Museum Scientists on the Global StageBiodiversity Research: Understanding Life’s Threatened Diversity100 Years Later: Minnesota Updates its Natural History SurveyCollections Go Online6. A Museum for the Twenty-first Century, 1990s–2022Saving an Endangered Museum: Surviving and Thriving in a University SettingFrom the Earth to the Cosmos: The Journey of Minnesota’s PlanetariumThe Ride of His LifeThe Road to a Re-Imagined MuseumDesigning with Nature: The Bell Museum’s New HomeMoving Minnesota: Dioramas in a New HabitatThe Experience: A Journey through TimeAfterwordDenise YoungAcknowledgmentsAppendixesThe Bell DioramasSelect Exhibitions at the Bell MuseumPublications of the Bell MuseumSelect ReferencesContributorsIndex
£26.99
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Italy in the German Literary Imagination:
Book SynopsisThe German fascination with Italy, as seen in Goethe's Italian Journey and in a number of literary reactions to it. Italy has long exerted a particular fascination on the Germans, and this has been reflected in German literature, most prominently in Goethe's Italienische Reise but also by numerous other writers who have returned to the topic. This book is concerned with two inextricably linked images - those of the German traveler in Italy and of Italy in German literature in the first third of the 19th century. Goethe's publication of his account nearly three decades after his actual journey was in some measure a vehicle to resist the challenge of a new generation of writers, who in turn would confront what they found to be a questionable, if not altogether false, representation. Hachmeister emphasizes the consequences of the disparity between the reality of Goethe's journey and his depiction of it, taking into consideration also his occasional discomfort with Italy's classical past. She shows how the German predilection for Italy is unique in the larger European cultural context of the Grand Tour, before moving on to chapters that contain readings of Italienische Reise and Goethe's Römische Elegien. Individual chapters follow on Eichendorff's Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts, Platen's Sonette aus Venedig, and Heine's three Italian Reisebilder, each of which is to some degree a reaction to Goethe's work. These chapters investigatehow the individual's reaction to Italy reflects his view of Germany and the author's role in early 19th-century German society. The conclusion offers a short glance at the continued evolution of the German fascination with Italyin the mid- and late nineteenth century. Gretchen Hachmeister received her Ph.D. in German literature from Yale University.Trade Review...thoroughly researched, precisely documented ... and extremely informative about the four poets' lives and oeuvres.... * MONATSHEFTE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Goethe: Anticipation, Hesitation, and Preparation for Italy Rewriting the Journey: Goethe Remembers Italy Römische Elegien Eichendorff and the Romantic Return to Italy Platen's Sonette aus Venedig and the Post-Romantic Aestheticization of Italy Subverting Tradition: Heine and the German Myth of Italy Conclusion Appendix: Sonette aus Venedig -- Comparison of Editions Works Cited Index
£81.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Collecting in the Twenty-First Century: From
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary volume of essays identifying the impact of technology on the age-old cultural practice of collecting as well as the opportunities and pitfalls of collecting in the digital era. Seminal to the rise of human cultures, the practice of collecting is an expression of individual and societal self-understanding. Through collections, cultures learn and grow. The introduction of digital technology has accelerated this process and at the same time changed how, what, and why we collect. Ever-expanding storage capacities and the accumulation of unprecedented amounts of data are part of a highly complex information economy in which collecting has become even more important for the formation of the past, present, and future. Museums, libraries, and archives have adapted to the requirements of a digital environment, as has anyone who browses the internet and stores information on hard drives or cloud servers. In turn, companies follow the digital footprint we leave behind. Today, collecting includes not only physical objects but also the binary code that allows for their virtual representation on screen. Collecting in the Twenty-First Century identifies the impact of technology, both new and old, on the cultural practice of collecting as well as the challenges and opportunities of collecting in the digital era. Scholars from German Studies, Media Studies, Museum Studies, Sound Studies, Information Technology, and Art History as well as librarians and preservationists offer insights into the most recent developments in collecting practices.Trade Review[T]he theoretical underpinnings, issues raised, and points made throughout the volume are useful beyond their immediate applications. They pose questions of access, data collection, ethics, and economics that will interest scholars of the history of collections, museum studies, digital humanities, library and information sciences, and related fields of literary theory and criticism and media studies. -- J. Decker * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Collecting in the Digital Age - Christoph Zeller 1: Collecting: Defining the Subject - Johannes Endres PART I. Spaces of Collecting 2: Collector as Curator: Collecting in the Post-Internet Age - Boris Groys 3: Should Libraries Still Be Charged with Collecting in a Digital Environment? - Michael Knoche 4: Museums and Collecting as/and Media in the Digital Age - Peter M. McIsaac PART II. Recollection 5: Quality Storage: Collecting as a Technique of Reading - Nikolaus Wegmann 6: Phenomenology of Memory in an Age of Big Data - Clifford B. Anderson 7: Collecting the Cultural Memory of Palmyra - Erin L. Thompson 8: Conservation in the Digital Age - Jessica Walthew PART III. Virtuality 9: Music and the Limits of Collectibility - Rolf J. Goebel 10: Cat Art and Climate Change: Collecting in the Data Anthropocene - Edward Dawson PART IV. Economics 11: Doomed to Collect: Dataveillance as Inner Logic of the Internet - Roberto Simanowski 12: Data Collection in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Douglas C. Schmidt Notes on the Contributors Index
£80.75
Getty Trust Publications Italian Illuminated Manuscripts
Book SynopsisThis is a stunning tour through eight centuries of manuscript illumination. Known for their stunning displays of artistry and technique, Italian illuminated manuscripts have long been coveted by collection around the world. The J. Paul Getty Museum holds the most recently formed institutional collection of its kind in the United States, yet it spans more than eight centuries and reflects many of the extraordinary achievements of the Italian tradition. Made up of whole manuscripts as well as leaves and cuttings, the Getty collection of Italian illumination contains nearly sixty works and includes the Montecassino Breviary, the Ferrarese Gualenghi-d'Este Hours, and the Roman gradual illuminated by Antonio da Monza for Santa Maria in Aracoeli. Other important acquisitions are one of the finest Bolognese Bibles of the thirteenth century; three leaves from the Laudario of Sant'Agnese, the most ambitious Florentine manuscript from the first half of the fourteenth century; and a missal once owned by the antipope John XXIII. This beautifully illustrated volume presents many splendid examples of Italian painting and illumination. Some are by noted artists such as Girolamo da Cremona, Pacino de Bonaguida, and Pisanello; others are attributed to artists known only by their works, such as the Master of Gerona, who is credited with one of the finest miniatures in the collection.
£16.14
Getty Trust Publications Guide to the Getty Villa Revised Edition
Book SynopsisIt begins with the history of the site, recounting how, as J. Paul Getty's art collection grew, he chose to house it in a replica of the ancient Roman villa at Herculaneum now known as the Villa dei Papiri. The second chapter chronicles the destruction of Herculaneum in 79 CE during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the Villa dei Papiri's rediscovery in the eighteenth century, and more recent archaeological discoveries at the site. The third chapter leads readers on a tour of the Getty Villa, from the cobblestone "Roman road" through the outdoor theater, atrium, peristyles, and gardens; it includes detailed descriptions of special rooms such as the Basilica, the Room of Colored Marbles, the Temple of Herakles, and the Tablinum. The final chapter recounts how Getty began collecting art in the late 1930s, how the collection grew in the decades before and after his death in 1974, and how the displays at the Villa have evolved along with the collection. This edition includes a new director's foreword, as well as revised and refreshed main text, new photography and also includes updated floor plans of the newly reinstalled Villa.
£12.99
University of Tennessee Press Decisions at Forts Henry and Donelson: The Twenty
Book SynopsisThe Battles of Forts Henry and Donelson took place in February of 1862 and were early indicators of the success the US would have in the Civil War’s Western Theater. Due to Kentucky’s neutrality at the time, Brig. Gen. Daniel S. Donelson was instructed to find suitable sites for fortification along the Tennessee River but just inside the state boundaries of Tennessee. Forts Henry and Donelson were constructed in the summer of 1861 and were quickly identified by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant as strategic fortifications that, if conquered, would open the Federal Army’s path to Alabama and Mississippi. Fort Henry fell to Federal control on February 6, 1862, and Fort Donelson fell six days later. With the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers now open to Federal gunboats, Grant and his army would head southwest to Memphis and on to Vicksburg. Decisions at Forts Henry and Donelson explores the critical decisions made by Confederate and Federal commanders during the battle and how these decisions shaped its outcome. Rather than offering a history of the battle, Hank Koopman hones in on a sequence of critical decisions made by commanders on both sides of the conflict to provide a blueprint of the Battles of Forts Henry and Donelson at their tactical core. Identifying and exploring the critical decisions in this way allows students of the battles to progress from a knowledge of what happened to a mature grasp of why events happened. Complete with maps and a driving tour, Decisions at Forts Henry and Donelson is an indispensable primer, and readers looking for a concise introduction to these battles can tour this sacred ground—or read about it at their leisure—with key insights into the campaigns and a deeper understanding of the Civil War itself.Decisions at Forts Henry and Donelson is the eighteenth in a series of books that will explore the critical decisions of major campaigns and battles of the Civil War.
£24.71
University of South Carolina Press The Charleston Museum: America's First Museum
Book SynopsisSince its founding in 1773, the Charleston Museum has served as a mecca of learning and discovery. In celebration of its 250th anniversary, this commemorative volume brings its rich history to life, offering insights into many of its 2.4 million collected artifacts while detailing the contributions of key figures, such as Gabriel Manigault, Laura Bragg, and Milby Burton, who made it one of the premier museums in the southern United States. This handsomely illustrated compendium showcases approximately 100 prized pieces from the museum's impressive collections in archaeology, natural history, archived materials, decorative arts, and historic textiles, as well as its preservation of historic landmarks, such as the Heyward-Washington House, the Joseph Manigault House, and the Dill Sanctuary, a 580-acre wildlife refuge on nearby James Island. The collections, unmatched in their interpretive value to South Carolina cultural and natural history, make this museum a place of endearing value to the Charleston community and the Palmetto State as it continues to evolve and thrive into the twenty-first century.
£26.96
Red Lightning Books Lincoln Road Trip: The Back-Roads Guide to
Book SynopsisAmerica's favorite president sure got around. Before Abraham Lincoln's sojourned to the Oval Office, he grew up in Kentucky and began his career as a lawyer in Illinois. In fact, Lincoln toured some amazing places throughout the Midwest in his lifetime. In Lincoln Road Trip: The Back-Roads Guide to America's Favorite President, Jane Simon Ammeson will help you step back into history by visiting the sites where Lincoln lived and visited. This fun and entertaining travel guide includes the stories behind the quintessential Lincoln sites, while also taking you off the beaten path to fascinating and lesser-known historical places. Visit the Log Inn in Warrenton, Indiana (now the oldest restaurant in the state), where Lincoln stayed in 1844 when he was campaigning for Henry Clay. Or visit key places in Lincoln's life, like the home of merchant Colonel Jones, who allowed a young Abe to read all his books, or Ward's Academy, where Mary Todd Lincoln attended school. Along with both famous and overlooked places with Lincoln connections, Ammeson profiles nearby attractions to round out your trip, like Holiday World, a family-owned amusement park that goes well with a trip to the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial and Lincoln State Park. Featuring new and exciting Lincoln tales from Springfield, Illinois; Beardstown, Kentucky; Booneville, Indiana; Alton, Illinois; and many more, Lincoln Road Trip is a fun adventure through America's heartland that will bring Lincoln's incredible story to life.Table of ContentsPrologue1. In the Beginning: The Lincoln Heritage2. Bardstown & Bourbon3. Athens of the West: Lexington Belle4. Southeastern Indiana Trails5. Southwestern Indiana: Life in Little Pigeon Creek6. A River Runs Through It: Lincoln in Illinois7. Other Places Along the Way8. Endings
£12.34
Red Lightning Books Lincoln Road Trip: The Back-Roads Guide to
Book SynopsisAmerica's favorite president sure got around. Before Abraham Lincoln's sojourned to the Oval Office, he grew up in Kentucky and began his career as a lawyer in Illinois. In fact, Lincoln toured some amazing places throughout the Midwest in his lifetime. In Lincoln Road Trip: The Back-Roads Guide to America's Favorite President, Jane Simon Ammeson will help you step back into history by visiting the sites where Lincoln lived and visited. This fun and entertaining travel guide includes the stories behind the quintessential Lincoln sites, while also taking you off the beaten path to fascinating and lesser-known historical places. Visit the Log Inn in Warrenton, Indiana (now the oldest restaurant in the state), where Lincoln stayed in 1844 when he was campaigning for Henry Clay. Or visit key places in Lincoln's life, like the home of merchant Colonel Jones, who allowed a young Abe to read all his books, or Ward's Academy, where Mary Todd Lincoln attended school. Along with both famous and overlooked places with Lincoln connections, Ammeson profiles nearby attractions to round out your trip, like Holiday World, a family-owned amusement park that goes well with a trip to the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial and Lincoln State Park. Featuring new and exciting Lincoln tales from Springfield, Illinois; Beardstown, Kentucky; Booneville, Indiana; Alton, Illinois; and many more, Lincoln Road Trip is a fun adventure through America's heartland that will bring Lincoln's incredible story to life.Table of ContentsPrologue1. In the Beginning: The Lincoln Heritage2. Bardstown & Bourbon3. Athens of the West: Lexington Belle4. Southeastern Indiana Trails5. Southwestern Indiana: Life in Little Pigeon Creek6. A River Runs Through It: Lincoln in Illinois7. Other Places Along the Way8. Endings
£45.90
CABI Publishing Managing Religious Tourism
Book SynopsisManaging Religious Tourism provides a global view of the tools and resources used in demand and supply management, in the context of pilgrimage and religious tourism. With a focus on toolkits and best practices, the book reinforces the quality of service provision and offers a reflection on consumers' perspectives and what drives their purchasing decisions with regards to a variety of destinations. These central themes are complemented by an understanding of management responses to consumer behaviour and mobility, accessibility, individualism and tourism for both sacred and secular purposes. The book also examines the ways in which networks, partnerships and the conceptual stakeholder approach can be employed by religious tourism suppliers working with destination management organisations. The text promotes sustainable development and a triple bottom line focus, with all chapters supporting policy for framing development. Key features include: - Global perspective on tools as well as management approaches and techniques. - Emphasis on sustainability in connecting sacred and secular consumers. - Focus on promoting learning and development within this important tourism sector.Table of Contents1: Introduction Part I: Theory 2: Managing the Sacred: A Governance Perspective for Religious Tourism Destinations 3: Innovation, Religion and Managing Value Creation: The World Heritage Site of the ArchAbbey of Pannonhalma, Hungary 4: Managing St John’s – Working for the Greater Good Part II: Best Practice 5: Managing Visitors at Sacred Sites: The Case of Montserrat 6: Best Practice and Sacred Site Management: The Case of Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah 7: Tackling the Problems of Deficient Data when Planning for Religious Tourism Management 8: Issues and Approaches in Managing Visitors to Pagan Sacred Sites Part III: Case Studies 9: Analysis of Territorial Development and Management Practices along the Way of St James in Galicia (Spain) 10: Managing Cultural Shift Within Religious Sites in UK and the Role of the Performing and Visual Arts as Transforming the Experiences of Visitors 11: Implications for Managed Visitor Experiences at Muktinath Temple (Chumig Gyatsa) in Nepal: A Netnography 12: The Impact of Development of Religious Tourism on the Host Community – A Case Study of Mount E’mei in China 13: Strategic Project Manresa 2022: Using Religious Tourism as a Keystone for the Revitalization of a Non-touristic and Non-religious City 14: Toolkit: Managing Relationship Marketing with Sacred and Secular Consumers
£93.87
Bodleian Library Rare & Wonderful: Treasures from Oxford
Book SynopsisSince its foundation in 1860, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History’s world-renowned collections have become a key centre for scientific study and its much-loved building an important icon for visitors from around the world. The museum now holds over seven million scientific specimens including five million insects, half a million fossil specimens and half a million zoological specimens. It also holds an extensive collection of archival material relating to important naturalists such as Charles Darwin, William Smith, William Jones and James Charles Dale. This lavishly illustrated book features highlights from the collections ranging from the iconic Dodo (the only soft tissue specimen of the species in existence) and the giant tuna (brought back from Madeira on a perilous sea crossing in 1846) to crabs collected by Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle, David Livingstone’s tsetse fly specimens and Mary Anning’s ichthyosaur. Also featured are the first described dinosaur bones, found in a small Oxfordshire village, the Red Lady of Paviland (who was in fact a man who lived 29,000 years ago) and a meteorite from the planet Mars. Each item tells a unique story about natural history, about the history of science, about collecting, or about the museum itself. They give a unique insight into the extraordinary wealth of information and the fascinating tales that can be gleaned from these collections, both from the past and for the future.
£19.00
Bodleian Library Museum Miscellany, A
Book SynopsisWhich are the oldest museums in the world? What is a cabinet of curiosities? Who haunts Hampton Court? What is on the FBI’s list of stolen art? 'A Museum Miscellany' celebrates the intriguing world of galleries and museums, from national institutions such as the Musée du Louvre, the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art to niche collections such as the Lawnmower Museum and the Museum of Barbed Wire. Here you will find a cornucopia of museum-related facts, statistics and lists, covering everything from museum ghosts, dangerous museum objects and conservation beetles to treasure troves, museum heists and the Museum of London’s fatberg. Bursting with quirky facts, intriguing statistics and legendary curators, this is the perfect gift for all those who love to visit museums and galleries.Trade Review'From national to niche, the museums herein will inspire the reader to discover their own favourite curiosities. Go and seek them out.' * The Field *'Written to celebrate the intriguing and fascinating world of museums (the Fitzwilliam is one of the many museums featured) … One for museum lovers, and perfectly sized for stockings…' * Cambridge Edition *
£9.49
Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies Canadian Battlefields of the Second World War:
Book SynopsisThis guidebook offers an introduction to the strategic, operational and tactical aspects of the Dieppe Raid and the Normandy campaign plus information on accommodation, museums, memorials and other points of interest. The battlefields of the Second World War have long played an important part in the collective memory and imagination of Canadians. This guide is intended to encourage a new generation to set out on their own journey not just to the iconic landing beaches, memorials and museums but to the villages and fields where young Canadians fought to free France from the yoke of Nazi tyranny.
£23.36
Arc Medieval Press People and Places of the Roman Past: The Educated Traveller's Guide
£136.24
Leiden University Press Animals in Dutch Travel Writing, 1800-present
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£98.40
Dorling Kindersley Ltd Londres Guía Visual DK London
£28.34
Dorling Kindersley Ltd DK Berlín Guía Top 10 DK Top 10 Berlin
£16.33
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) DK Amsterdam Spanish Edition
£26.98
HardPress Publishing A Journey Through Albania and Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia to Constantinople During the Years 1809 and 1810
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£21.06
Elm Grove Publishing Monuments Memorials Museums 20252026
£9.99
Ma Non Troppo El Río de la Música: del Jazz Y Blues Al Rock
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£26.35
GUIA DE LA ESPAÑA TEMPLARIA
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£23.92
DE OCA EN OCA POR EL CAMINO DE SANTIAGO
Book SynopsisDe oca en oca y tiro porque me toca.Lo que parecía un simple juego de mesa podría ocultar un secreto ancestral. Diversas teorías sostienen que el Juego de la Oca es, en realidad, un mapa simbólico del Camino de Santiago, donde cada casilla representa una etapa y un aprendizaje espiritual.Algunos peregrinos, según antiguas tradiciones, recorrían primero el Camino del Grial por la Jacetania aragonesa y, tras llegar a Santiago de Compostela, continuaban por el llamado Camino de la Resurrección hasta la legendaria Costa da Morte. Este itinerario, vinculado al ciclo de las lluvias de estrellas ?las Perseidas en agosto y las Leónidas en noviembre?, encierra un profundo simbolismo celeste y espiritual.Pocos saben que este Camino no pertenece realmente a Santiago el Zebedeo, sino a Santiago el Justo, hermano de Jesús, y que constituye, al mismo tiempo, una Vía Sacra y una Vía de María, presente en advocaciones como la enigmática Virgen de la Oca.Este libro reúne estas y otras claves para mostrar el Camino como nunca antes: un viaje espiritual en clave cristiana, enriquecido con símbolos, leyendas y correspondencias sagradas. A través de la interpretación de su iconografía ?a veces críptica? y de los relatos evangélicos y jacobeos, el autor invita a descubrir una nueva manera de comprender y recorrer esta senda milenaria, donde el viajero se transforma en un auténtico peregrino del espíritu.
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