{"product_id":"the-importance-of-elsewhere-the-globalist-humanist-tourist-9781783208746","title":"The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy do we travel? What are we doing – and what do we imagine we are doing – when we leave the house, get on a plane and thereby step into globalism? \u003cem\u003eThe Importance of Elsewhere\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of essays, rooted in Randy Malamud’s own lifetime of travel, that addresses those questions and more. Setting today’s tourism in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century experiences of travel and travel writing, he uncovers motives and appreciations of movement, difference and novelty that are deeply woven into the imperial enterprise – and that remain key drivers of our interest in and enjoyment of travel today. Marrying concrete case studies and lively personal anecdotes, \u003cem\u003eThe Importance of Elsewhere\u003c\/em\u003e will be of interest to any global traveler who has ever stopped to wonder what it is that draws her to faraway places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Randy Malamud, a distinguished American professor of English . . . likes to get on planes. He is not a naive tourist but a “travelling humanist”. He might carry a lot of literary baggage, but he travels light. His knowledge informs his tourism. It doesn’t squash it... He recognises the dangers of travel. Planes can carry nasty bacteria to anywhere with an international airport. But Malamud wants to be a carrier of ease rather than disease, transmitting to his readers the way travel can provoke joy, widen our aesthetics and offer a buffet of experiences.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jeremy MacClancy * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHome and Away\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   Should I Stay or Should I go?\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   Travel or Tourism \u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   Fear of Flying\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   Travel Reading: Reading Travel\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   'The Importance of Elsewhere'\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   LEEDS: Literary Tourism\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   ŁÓDŹ: Monty Python's Academic Circus\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   COPENHAGEN: Projecting a Triumphant Queer Moment\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   LONDON: Sex 2.0\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   COTTBUS: Weltspiegel\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   BAGHDAD: Reconstructing Iraqi Academe\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   TIERRA DEL FUEGO: Penguins at the End of the World\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   ZAGREB: The Subversive Summit\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   SZOLNOK: Science and Film\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   BERLIN: Gestapo Headquarters\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   DUBAI: A Cinematic Door to the Middle East\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   WARSAW: The Bores of Academe\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   COURMAYEUR: Noir\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud   SVALBARD: Introduction to Arctic Studies\u003cbr\u003e Randy Malamud","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042268447063,"sku":"9781783208746","price":22.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783208746.jpg?v=1750953700","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-importance-of-elsewhere-the-globalist-humanist-tourist-9781783208746","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}