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Author : Burton Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : MSU:31293008229977
Author : Iman Al-Attar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000719550
The history of Baghdad in the 18th and 19th centuries had predominantly been written by two groups. The first group is Baghdadi scholars, and the second group is travellers. These two resources complement each other; while the literature of Baghdadi scholars provides insights from inside, travelogues provide observations from outside. By implementing this interlocking method of investigation, we can reach a comprehensive understanding of the history of Baghdad. Having investigated some sources from inside in my previous book; Baghdad: an urban history through the lens of literature, the focus of this book is on travel literature. The history of travelogues throughout different periods of Baghdad’s history is highlighted, with a particular focus on 18th and 19th century travelogues. This period was a critical epoch of change, not just in Baghdad, but across the world. Nevertheless, this book does not intend to provide a documentary of the travellers who visited Baghdad. It is rather an analytical study of the colonial literature in relation to the historiography of Baghdad.
Author : Laszlo Gyermek
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781496973993
This book is about the travels of Laszlo Gyermek, MD, PhD, a retired physician and researcher who has immigrated to the USA from Hungary in 1957 after the defeat of the uprising against the Soviet occupation and oppression of his native country. The source of his travelogues has been the numerous trips he has taken from the United States to more than sixty countries, particularly in the last three decades, which encompass mostly recreational trips/vacations, reflecting the authors wide-ranging interests in geographic and cultural explorations all over the world, but particularly in Europe, where he has established two regional residences: one in Southern France in 1983 and another one in Budapest, Hungary, in 2000. From these bases he originated many of these trips. The book is narrated in a unique, perhaps scattered and unusual, style, considering the many destinations in different time frames, often repeatedly, and covering the common, practical aspects of todays travels into foreign lands: from ticket purchases to challenges during travel-e.g., jet lag and other health problems. There is varied information from many social, economical, educational, and artistic aspects about many European countries first and, in the second half of the book, encountered in several overseas countries on five continents. The last part of the book deals with episodes in selected cities in the United States and abroad, often with a humoristic veneer. In essence, the reader is presented with a lot of material and with analytically aspired, but often critical and subjective, stories. Still, the author believes that the contents are worth going through and pondering about.
Author : Antje Peukert
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640712816
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,1, University of Potsdam (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Diese Studie untersucht das Zusammenspiel zwischen imperialen und Weiblichkeitsdiskursen in den Reiseberichten britischer Frauen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Im Besonderen werden die Reiseberichte von Lucie Duff Gordon und Amelia Edwards beleuchtet und hinsichtlich ihrer Einordnung in kulturelle, politische und soziale Zusammenhänge analysiert. Das Augenmerk liegt dabei hauptsächlich auf Konstruktionen von Geschlecht und Identität, um aufzuzeigen, dass britischen Mittelstandsfrauen, trotz der strengen patriarchalen Eingrenzung, die Kolonialherrschaft Englands emanzipatorische Auswege aufzeigte. Aufgrund des widersprüchlichen Verhältnisses von imperialen und als maskulin konnotierten Diskursen und Weiblichkeitsdiskursen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts in den Reisetexten von Frauen, lassen sich Konstruiertheit und Instabilität beider Diskurse darstellen. Das erste Kapitel dieser Arbeit gibt einen Überblick über postkoloniale und feministische Ansätze bezüglich der Reiseliteratur von britischen Autorinnen. Es wird vor allem ein theoretischer Rahmen und eine Methode zur Analyse von imperialen Reisetexten herausgearbeitet. Darüberhinaus wird die Position des Kritikers/der Kritikerin dekonstruiert, um die diskursive Einbettung repräsentativer Praktiken zu beleuchten und einen selbst-kritischen Zusammenhang zwischen imperialer Vergangenheit und gegenwärtigen Diskursen zu knüpfen. Im zweiten Kapitel wird auf die konkrete historische und kulturelle Situation von viktorianischen Frauen eingegangen. Der zweite Teil des Kapitels befasst sich dann näher mit der historischen Entwicklung des Reisens und der Tradition von reisenden Frauen im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Zwei konkrete Texte von zwei viktorianischen Autorinnen werden ausführlich im dritten und vierten Kapitel besprochen. Sowohl Amel
Author : Kathleen Jennings
Publisher : Brain Jar Press
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
How can people work on trains? Read on trains? There is so much happening outside! With these words, World Fantasy and Hugo Award-nominated artist Kathleen Jennings opens the door to a graceful, nuanced world of travel vignettes. With an affinity for words that’s equal to her celebrated artwork, Jennings captures the passing landscape with an illustrator’s eye for detail and a poet’s command of rich language and startling metaphors. Originally published over the span of three years while travelling across Massachusetts, New York State, and England, Travelogues collects Kathleen’s travel vignettes together for the first time. Each of these nine journeys is infused with wonder and rich, unfamiliar landscapes, and those who climb aboard will forever look at train travel with new eyes.
Author : Guy Delisle
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770461871
Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle’s observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French animation company. By translating his fish-out-of-water experiences into accessible graphic novels, Delisle skillfully notes the differences between Western and Eastern cultures, while also conveying his compassion for the simple freedoms that escape his colleagues in the Communist state. Shenzhen has been translated from the French by Helge Dascher. Dascher has been translating graphic novels from French and German to English for over twenty years. A contributor to Drawn & Quarterly since the early days, her translations include acclaimed titles such as the Aya series by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie, Hostage by Guy Delisle, and Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët. With a background in art history and history, she also translates books and exhibitions for museums in North America and Europe. She lives in Montreal.
Author : Tim Youngs
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 071903969X
The writings of travellers in Africa during the Golden Age of Victorian exploration often tell us more about 19th-century Britain than about Africa. In this text, the author places these narratives in their historical and cultural context, and examines how racial images may be affected by social change and litarary form.
Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1982-06-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780199878536
A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.
Author : Burton Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : UIUC:30112058016988
Author : Burton Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : NWU:35556008957789
Author : Jordan Salama
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781646221615
An exhilarating travelogue for a new generation about a journey along Colombia’s Magdalena River, exploring life by the banks of a majestic river now at risk, and how a country recovers from conflict. "Richly observed." —Liesl Schillinger, The New York Times Book Review An American writer of Argentine, Syrian, and Iraqi Jewish descent, Jordan Salama tells the story of the Río Magdalena, nearly one thousand miles long, the heart of Colombia. This is Gabriel García Márquez’s territory—rumor has it Macondo was partly inspired by the port town of Mompox—as much as that of the Middle Eastern immigrants who run fabric stores by its banks. Following the river from its source high in the Andes to its mouth on the Caribbean coast, journeying by boat, bus, and improvised motobalinera, Salama writes against stereotype and toward the rich lives of those he meets. Among them are a canoe builder, biologists who study invasive hippopotamuses, a Queens transplant managing a failing hotel, a jeweler practicing the art of silver filigree, and a traveling librarian whose donkeys, Alfa and Beto, haul books to rural children. Joy, mourning, and humor come together in this astonishing debut, about a country too often seen as only a site of war, and a tale of lively adventure following a legendary river.
Author : Magnus Mörner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018618165
Author : Reformed Church in America. Joint Committee on Mission Study of the Mission Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Christian education of children
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR61108499
Author : Doris Gruber,Arno Strohmeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110698046
This volume brings together twenty-two authors from various countries who analyze travelogues on the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The travelogues reflect the colorful diversity of the genre, presenting the experiences of individuals and groups from China to Great Britain. The spotlight falls on interdependencies of travel writing and historiography, geographic spaces, and specific practices such as pilgrimages, the hajj, and the harem. Other points of emphasis include the importance of nationalism, the place and time of printing, representations of fashion, and concepts of masculinity and femininity. By displaying close, comparative, and distant readings, the volume offers new insights into perceptions of "otherness", the circulation of knowledge, intermedial relations, gender roles, and digital analysis.
Author : Burton Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : NWU:35556008957862