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Autor:
Mairead Small Staid
The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life. The Traces is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature
Autor:
Chris J. Thomas
Reframes Polynesia and Melanesia through analysis of nineteenth-century travel writing In Pacific Possessions: The Pursuit of Authenticity in Nineteenth-Century Oceanian Travel Accounts, Chris J. Thomas expands the literary canon on Polynesia and Mel
Autor:
Ronald Koury
The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal, including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles
Autor:
Richard Bermann, Leesa Wheatley
What was happening in Ireland on the eve of World War I? In 1913, the ‘Irish Question'was hotly discussed in European capitals because on the eve of the Great War, the stability in the British Empire's ‘back yard'was considered of the utmost stra
Autor:
Misty Krueger
This important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a range of historical and literary works. While at one time transatlantic studies concentrated predominant
Autor:
Bill Arnott
Bill Arnott guides readers on an epic literary odyssey following history's most feared and misunderstood voyageurs: the Vikings!To “go Viking” is to embark on an epic journey. For more than eight years, Bill Arnott journeyed throughout the northe
Autor:
Saeko Yoshikawa
This book explores Wordsworth's extraordinary influence on the tourist landscapes of the Lake District throughout the age of railways, motorcars and the First World War. It reveals how Wordsworth's response to railways was not a straightforward matte
Autor:
Xiaolin Duan
Lovely West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on China's east coast, has been celebrated as a major tourist site since the twelfth century. Now as then, visitors boat to its islands, stroll through its gardens, worship in its temples, and immortalize it in
This book explores the representation of Wales and ‘Welshness'in texts by French- (including Breton) and German-speaking travellers from 1780 to the present day. Since the emergence of the travel narrative as a popular source of information and ent
Autor:
Michael Hoberman
2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Jewish writers have long had a sense of place in the United States, and interpretations of American geography have appeared in Jewish American literature from the colonial era forward. But troublingly, scholarsh