Travel writing Books
Hardpress Publishing The Christian Spectator Being a Journey from England to Ohio Two Years in That State Travels in America C 1
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Hardpress Publishing My Travels Or an Unsentimental Journey Through France Switzerland and Italy 1
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Hardpress Publishing Maine Woods
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Hardpress Publishing Ten Days in a French Parsonage in the Summer of 1863
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Hardpress Publishing The Lamp and the Lantern Or Light for the Tent and the Traveller 1
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Hardpress Publishing Old England and New England in a Series of Views Taken on the Spot 1
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Hardpress Publishing Things as They Are Or Notes of a Traveller Through Some of the Middle and Northern States 1
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HardPress Publishing The Travelers of Fredrick Lewis Norden Through Egypt and Nubia
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Hardpress Publishing Tales of the Alhambra to Which Are Added Legends of the Conquest of Spain 1
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Hardpress Publishing Narrative of Travels Scenes Adventures in the Old World
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Hardpress Publishing Calabria and the Liparian Islands in the Year 1860
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HardPress Publishing The Idler in Italy
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SIMPSON A Painters Scotland
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Raven Translation Press On My Own Two Wheels
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El libro de las maravillas del mundo
Book SynopsisUno de los libros de viajes más hermosos de todos los tiempos. Edición conmemorativa del séptimo centenario de la muerte de Marco Polo.
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Almuzara Sahara La Llamada del Desierto
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Almuzara Viaje a Tartessos
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Oriente Por El Norte a
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Taylor & Francis Early Modern Exchanges Dialogues Between Nations and Cultures 15501750 Transculturalisms 14001700
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Cambridge University Press Twilight in Italy and Other Essays The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D H Lawrence
Book SynopsisD. H. Lawrence left England for the first time in May 1912, and began almost immediately to record his reactions to foreign cultures. He wrote a series of travel articles intended for newspapers, two of which are published here for the first time after having been rejected as too anti-German in the tense pre-war atmosphere. In 1915 he amplified some of these essays and wrote others for Twilight in Italy (1916), his first travel book. Profoundly charged by the disorienting anxieties of the War, these essays evince a confidence and intellectual daring which take them well beyond the bounds of the conventional travel sketch. All are published in this first critical edition of his 1912-16 essays, together with his eerily prophetic article, 'With the Guns', written upon the outbreak of war in 1914.Table of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Twilight in Italy and Other Essays; Essays of Germany and Tyrol; Italian Essays, 1913 and 'With the Guns' 1914; Twilight in Italy [Italian days]; Appendixes; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; A note on currencies.
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Cambridge University Press Sea and Sardinia
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Cambridge University Press Sea and Sardinia
Book SynopsisSea and Sardinia records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back in January 1921. It reveals his response to a new landscape and people and his ability to transmute the spirit of place into literary art. This 1997 edition restores censored passages and corrects corrupt textual readings.Table of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Sea and Sardinia; Appendix; Explanatory notes; Glossary of selected Italian terms; Textual apparatus; A note on pounds, shillings and pence.
£38.99
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing
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Cambridge University Press Journal Kept by David Douglas During His Travels in North America 1823 1827
Book SynopsisDavid Douglas (17991834) was a highly influential Scottish botanist and plant collector. He discovered thousands of new species including the Douglas fir, and introduced over 200 species to Britain. His journal remained unpublished until this 1914 edition, which also includes contemporary reports of Douglas' mysterious death in Hawaii.Table of ContentsPreface; Travels in the United States, 1823; American oaks; Sketch of a journey to North-West America, 1824–7; Journal of expedition in North-West America; Memoir of David Douglas; Expedition of 1833–4; Account of Douglas' death in the Sandwich Islands; Inscription on Douglas' monument at Honolulu; Papers written by Douglas; Plants introduced by Douglas; Description of ice lettuce; Some American pines; Index.
£35.99
Cambridge University Press Travels on the Continent
Book SynopsisMariana Starke (17621838) was a popular writer of practical travel guides. This 1820 guide to continental Europe offers practical information for the traveller, alongside sightseeing tips and advice for those journeying to a warmer climate for their health. It is a rich source of information on early nineteenth-century travel.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. France; 2. Switzerland, the Simplon, Milan, etc.; 3. Florence; 4. Florence (cont.); 5. Pisa; 6. Genoa, Nice, Turin, Leghorn, Lucca, etc.; 7. Siena and Rome; 8. Rome; 9. Tivoli, Frascati, Palestrina, and Albano; 10. Naples; 11. Environs of Naples; 12. Return to England, though Germany; Appendix; Alphabetical list of towns, rivers, gulfs, islands, etc.; Index.
£53.19
Cambridge University Press Travel and Drama in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisThis agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights into Renaissance stage practice, performance history, and theatre''s transnational exchanges. It advances our understanding of theatre history, drama''s generic conventions, and what constitutes plays about travel at a time when the professional theatre was rapidly developing and England was attempting to announce its presence within a global economy. Recent critical studies have shown that the reach of early modern travel was global in scope, and its cultural consequences more important than narratives that are dominated by the Atlantic world suggest. This collection of essays by world-leading scholars redefines the field by expanding the canon of recognized plays concerned with travel. Re-assessing the parameters of the genre, the chapters offer fresh perspectives on how these plays communicated with their audiences and readers.Trade Review'Travel and Drama in Early Modern England manages to be at once unified and multifocal.' Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley, Notes and Queries'… this important volume presents a broad discussion about travel on the early modern stage, fittingly for a subject that evoked such different emotions and was an emblem for so many different things.' Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley, Notes and Queries'Travel and Drama in Early Modern England adds significantly to ongoing conversations on travel and its dramatic afterlives during the age of exploration.' Amrita Sen, Renaissance Quarterly'This fascinating collection offers an insightful analysis of the uses and representations of travel on the early modern stage.' Jennifer Cryar, The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: understanding the early modern journeying play Claire Jowitt and David McInnis; 1. 'For his travailes let the Globe witnesse': venturing on the stage in early modern England Anthony Parr; 2. Seeing and overseeing the stage as map in Early Modern drama Ladan Niayesh; 3. Marlowe's Mediterranean and counter-epic forms of oceanic hybridity Steve Mentz; 4. Making the land known: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 and the literature of perambulation Julie Sanders; 5. Eastward Ho and the traffic of the stage Andrew Gordon; 6. Language and seafaring in Thomas Middleton and John Webster's Anything for a Quiet Life Marianne Montgomery; 7. Rogue cosmopolitans on the Early Modern stage: John Ward, Thomas Stukeley, and the Sherley brothers Daniel Vitkus; 8. Drama at sea: a new look at Shakespeare on the Dragon, 1607–8 Richmond Barbour and Bernhard Klein; 9. Strange bedfellows: the ordinary undersides of 'a true reportory' and The Tempest Emily C. Bartels; 10. Travelling characters in early modern drama David McInnis; 11. 'Constant changelings', theatrical form, and migration: stage travel in the early 1620s Clare McManus; 12. The uses of cultural encounter in Sir William Davenant's Caroline-to-Restoration voyage drama Claire Jowitt.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Well Always Have Paris
Book SynopsisFor more than a century, pilgrims from all over the world seeking romance and passion have made their way to the City of Light. The seductive lure of Paris has long been irresistible to lovers, artists, epicureans, and connoisseurs of the good life. Globe-trotting film critic and writer John Baxter heard her siren song and was bewitched. Now he offers readers a witty, audacious, scandalous behind-the-scenes excursion into the colorful all-night show that is Paris -- interweaving his own experience of falling in love, with a delightfully salacious tour of the sultry Parisian corners most guidebooks ignore: from the literary cafés of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and de Beauvoir to the brothels where Dietrich and Duke Ellington held court, where Salvador Dali sated his fantasies, and Edward VII kept a sumptuous champagne bath for his favorite girls.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Teaching a Stone to Talk
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc African Laughter
Book SynopsisA highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country. — New York Times Book ReviewA rich and penetrating portrait of Lessing''s homeland, African Laughter recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989, and 1992, after being exiled from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her opposition to the minority white government. Lessing uses memory and reminiscence with recent experience to depict a country in the process of change.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Shadow of the Silk Road
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Population 485
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Lost Girls
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Strange Stones
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Safari
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Mr. Kent] tells a good story, and this book is all about stories." -- -- Wall Street Journal "This is a must-read for anyone who is captivated by the magic, mystery, and majesty of travel." -- -- Jeffrey Katzenberg "As this book explains, there is a world of difference between the superficial experience of tourism and that of the traveller. Immersing oneself deeply in a culture different to one's own is closer to the ancient practice of pilgrimage-respectful, spiritually nourishing and life-changing." -- -- Sting & Trudie Styler "There are grand adventures reflected in these stories." -- -- Roma Downey & Mark Burnett "Kent's memoir transports you to another landscape as successfully as an Abercrombie & Kent expedition." -- -- Wilbur Smith "Travel, no matter the destination, really changes your perspective; it clears your head, opens your eyes and helps cultivate new ways of thinking and sometimes even the brightest ideas you've ever had." -- -- Ted Turner "From the opening safari with actor Richard Burton, to his travels with Prince Charles and Bill Gates, to his icy dip in the waters of the North Pole, Geoffrey shows how travel is the great adventure that will change your life and better the world." -- -- Jeffrey D. Sachs Economist and Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network --Jeffrey D. Sachs, Economist and Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network "Traveling is the most powerful self-development tool available to humanity. The more you travel the more you learn through the diversity of other places and people, the more you understand how the world and mankind are the most beautiful treasures available to all of us." -- -- Manfredi de Clunieres di Balsorano, Chairman of Silversea Cruises "Geoffrey Kent...recounts his riveting and far-flung adventures in his new memoir "Safari: A Memoir of a Worldwide Travel Pioneer"...The book is also a poignant love letter to Africa, where he was raised and led his inaugural safari (both in Kenya) in 1962." -- -- Forbes.com "A fantastic read and a tale worth telling." -- -- Tom Chamberlin, The Rake "This is a memoir for armchair travelers and thrill-seekers, one man's journey of wanderlust, challenges, exploration, trials and tribulations...'Safari' is a book that shares all with us so we can vicariously get some of the thrills Geoffrey Kent has so much enjoyed." -- -- El Paso Inc. "Kent's eye-opening...adventures are...an edge-of-your-seat reading experience, kept especially engaging by his warm personality, sense of humor, and keen behind-the-scenes-of-building-a-business stories." -- -- Parade
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Safari A Memoir of a Worldwide Travel Pioneer
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Mr. Kent] tells a good story, and this book is all about stories." -- -- Wall Street Journal "This is a must-read for anyone who is captivated by the magic, mystery, and majesty of travel." -- -- Jeffrey Katzenberg "As this book explains, there is a world of difference between the superficial experience of tourism and that of the traveller. Immersing oneself deeply in a culture different to one's own is closer to the ancient practice of pilgrimage-respectful, spiritually nourishing and life-changing." -- -- Sting & Trudie Styler "There are grand adventures reflected in these stories." -- -- Roma Downey & Mark Burnett "Kent's memoir transports you to another landscape as successfully as an Abercrombie & Kent expedition." -- -- Wilbur Smith "Travel, no matter the destination, really changes your perspective; it clears your head, opens your eyes and helps cultivate new ways of thinking and sometimes even the brightest ideas you've ever had." -- -- Ted Turner "From the opening safari with actor Richard Burton, to his travels with Prince Charles and Bill Gates, to his icy dip in the waters of the North Pole, Geoffrey shows how travel is the great adventure that will change your life and better the world." -- -- Jeffrey D. Sachs Economist and Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network --Jeffrey D. Sachs, Economist and Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network "Traveling is the most powerful self-development tool available to humanity. The more you travel the more you learn through the diversity of other places and people, the more you understand how the world and mankind are the most beautiful treasures available to all of us." -- -- Manfredi de Clunieres di Balsorano, Chairman of Silversea Cruises "Geoffrey Kent...recounts his riveting and far-flung adventures in his new memoir "Safari: A Memoir of a Worldwide Travel Pioneer"...The book is also a poignant love letter to Africa, where he was raised and led his inaugural safari (both in Kenya) in 1962." -- -- Forbes.com "A fantastic read and a tale worth telling." -- -- Tom Chamberlin, The Rake "This is a memoir for armchair travelers and thrill-seekers, one man's journey of wanderlust, challenges, exploration, trials and tribulations...'Safari' is a book that shares all with us so we can vicariously get some of the thrills Geoffrey Kent has so much enjoyed." -- -- El Paso Inc. "Kent's eye-opening...adventures are...an edge-of-your-seat reading experience, kept especially engaging by his warm personality, sense of humor, and keen behind-the-scenes-of-building-a-business stories." -- -- Parade
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Montmartre Pariss Village of Art and Sin Great
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Pasta Pane Vino
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc In Search of Perfumes
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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 Random House Australia The Journals of Lewis Clark Lewis Clark
Book SynopsisIn 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank—not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and that a national Voyage of Discovery must be mounted to determine the nature and accessibility of the frontier. He commissioned his young secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to lead an intelligence-gathering expedition from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back. From 1804 to 1806, Lewis, accompanied by co-captain William Clark, the Shoshone guide Sacajawea, and thirty-two men, made the first trek across the Louisiana Purchase, mapping the rivers as he went, tracing the principal waterways to the sea, and establishing the American claim to the territories of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Together the captains kept a journal, a richly detailed record of the flora and fauna they sighted, the Indian tribes
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Penguin Putnam Inc The City of Falling Angels
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Penguin Putnam Inc Bicycle Diaries
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable
Book SynopsisAnother spellbinding trip around the globe with some of today's most celebrated writers and journalistsCondé Nast Traveler is the preeminent travel magazine in the United States, boasting a readership of 3.5 million. This second collection of the award-winning magazine's best travel writings, includes essays by luminaries such as, Robert Hughes, Russell Banks, E. L. Doctorow, André Aciman, Pico Iyer, and Edna O'Brien.As the world becomes smaller and ever more accessible, interest in travel writing is only growing greater. So whether readers are preparing for their own journeys or just indulging in an armchair adventure, this new volume of The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys will open their eyes to the world.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Wild Silence
Book SynopsisAN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Heartfelt and heartening … a full-throated paean to the fundamental importance of nature in all its glory, fury and impermanence. —Wall Street JournalThe incredible follow-up to the international bestseller The Salt Path, a story of finding your way back home.Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 homeless miles along The Salt Path, living on the windswept and wild English coastline; the cliffs, the sky and the chalky earth now feel like their home. Moth has a terminal diagnosis, but together on the wild coastal path, with their feet firmly rooted outdoors, they discover that anything is possible.Now, life beyond The Salt Path awaits and they come back to four walls, but the sense of home is illusive and returning to normality is proving difficult - until an incredible gesture by someone who reads their story changes everything. A chance to breathe life back into a beautiful farmhouse nestled deep in the Cornish hills; rewilding the land and returning nature to its hedgerows becomes their saving grace and their new path to follow. The Wild Silence is a story of hope triumphing over despair, of lifelong love prevailing over everything. It is a luminous account of the human spirit's connection to nature, and how vital it is for us all.
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Penguin Random House India Solo
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