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Book A Vagabond in Asia

Download or read book A Vagabond in Asia written by Edmund Candler and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Vagabond in Asia

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  • Author : Edmund Candler
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1900
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book A Vagabond in Asia written by Edmund Candler and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination

Download or read book The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination written by Avishek Ray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the epistemic foundation of the heuristic construct ‘vagabond’ and the convergence between the politics of itinerancy and that of dissent in the context of South Asia. It describes the fraught relationship between ‘native’ itinerant practices and techniques of governmentality which have furnished different categorizations and taxonomies of mobility. The book demonstrates the historical seismic breaks – from the Orientalist to the post-Orientalist, from the premodern to the modern, and from the colonial to the post-colonial – in the representation of the vagabond in the juridico-political imagination, in historiography and cultural articulation. For instance, the drunk European sailor, the quasi-religious mendicant, and the helpless famine refugee have all been referred to as ‘vagabonds’ in the colonial archive. This book examines the histories and conditions behind these conceptual overlaps, as well as the uncanny associations among categories that uneasily coexist and mirror each other as subsets of a vast range of phenomena, which may loosely be called ‘vagabond(age)’. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of literature, cultural studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, history, migration studies, sociology, and South Asia studies.

Book A Vagabond in Asia  With a Map of the Author s Route and     Photographs

Download or read book A Vagabond in Asia With a Map of the Author s Route and Photographs written by Edmund Candler and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Vagabond in Asia  by Edmund Candler

Download or read book A Vagabond in Asia by Edmund Candler written by Edmund Candler and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Vagabond in Asia   Primary Source Edition

Download or read book A Vagabond in Asia Primary Source Edition written by Edmund Candler and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Book Vagabond Adventures in Asia and the Pacific

Download or read book Vagabond Adventures in Asia and the Pacific written by Vagabond and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Asian Road

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  • Author : Mik Hamilton
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  • Release : 2021-05-28
  • ISBN : 9781631321405
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book The Asian Road written by Mik Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author and his new German wife packed their backpacks and, with no money, on a beautiful summer day, set out on the road with no goal or purpose and with little knowledge of what lie ahead. Together they blazed a trail from Europe to India that a few years later would become known as The Hippie Trail. Hitch-hiking from Frankfurt, through Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Rangoon, Bangkok, Malaysia, Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, they led a life filled with meeting incredible people, experiencing strange cultures, humorous incidents, dangerous adventures, and desperate circumstances, aimlessly wandering on the road and in the streets of Europe and Asia until it all led back to that search for meaning, leading to a desperate climax in the deserts of Rajasthan.

Book The Vagabond in Literature

Download or read book The Vagabond in Literature written by Arthur Compton-Rickett and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bibliographical notes": pages 206-[207] Foreword.--Introduction: The vagabond element in modern literature--I. William Hazlitt.--II. Thomas De Quincey.--III. George Borrow.--IV. Henry D. Thoreau.--V. Robert Louis Stevenson.--VI. Richard Jefferies.--VII. Walt Whitman.

Book Vagabond Life

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  • Author : George Kennan
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2015-08-03
  • ISBN : 0295803363
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Vagabond Life written by George Kennan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Kennan (1845-1924) was a pioneering explorer, writer, and lecturer on Russia in the nineteenth century, the author of classic works such as Tent Life in Siberia and Siberia and the Exile System, and great-uncle of George Frost Kennan, the noted historian and diplomat of the Cold War. In 1870, Kennan became the first American to explore the highlands of Dagestan, a remote Muslim region of herders, silversmiths, carpet-weavers, and other craftsmen southeast of Chechnya, only a decade after Russia violently absorbed the region into its empire. He kept detailed journals of his adventures, which today form a small part of his voluminous archive in the Library of Congress. Frith Maier has combined the diaries with selected letters and Kennan’s published articles on the Caucasus to create a vivid narrative of his six-month odyssey. The journals have been organized into three parts. The first covers Kennan’s journey to the Caucasus, a significant feat in itself. The second chronicles his expedition across the main Caucasus Ridge with the Georgian nobleman Prince Jorjadze. In the final part, Kennan circles back through the lands of Chechnya to slip once again into the Dagestan highlands. Kennan’s remarkable curiosity and perception come through in this lively and accessible narrative, as does his humor at the challenges of his travels. In her introduction, Maier discusses Kennan’s illustrious career and his reliability as an observer, while providing background on the Caucasus to help clarify Kennan’s descriptions of daily life, religion, etiquette, customary law, and local government. In an Afterword, she retraces Kennan’s steps to find descendants of Prince Jorjadze and describes her work in coproducing, with filmmaker Christopher Allingham, a documentary inspired by Kennan’s Caucasus journey.

Book Watashi

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  • Author : Shuntaro Tanikawa
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780980511369
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book Watashi written by Shuntaro Tanikawa and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shuntar Tanikawa was born in 1931 in Tokyo. Since publishing his debut collection Two Billion Light Years of Solitude in 1952, he has emerged as the leading voice of contemporary Japanese poetry. His poems are well known not just among readers of poetry; he has passionate fans throughout all of Japan. In addition to writing poetry, Tanikawa has been active in many other realms of literature. He has translated Mother Goose and Charles Shultz's Peanuts, has written the innovative picture books Myself and Songs Playing with Words, and has penned the lyrics for the theme song to Astro Boy and numerous schools across the nation. Tanikawa has taken the position of a liberal poet in his political and social outlook. As for contemporary Japanese poetry, on 3 continents and in some 15 languages the name and poems of Shuntar Tanikawa come first to mind. At 81, his energy and art continue to bubble out of a poetic Fountain of Youth. Following the Vagabond Watashi, two more Tanikawa translations by William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura are forthcoming. Their first volume as co-translators of this revered poet appeared in 1975. "Across a variety of poems and in a varietyof forms Tanikawa explores the connections between the self and words, that treacherous medium that promises to mirror or even explain reality but instead is one more layer of the puzzle needing explanation. Nothing in this book is simple. Unlikely things are placed together and each of them forces us to open further doors. In this process the poet or the I is not the one with knowledge or answers but merely the one leading us and himself into further self questioning. The immense seriousness of this poetry, locating its search for reality outside the quest for accidental memories, with no hint of any desperate desire to assert a truth as my truth, with no ego getting in the way, enables Tanikawa to achieve the purity and strength of poetry at its finest. His poems have no formula. They aren't dredged up by swallowing a memory pill or by decorating a pre-given content with word-play and metaphor. Without being sentimental, they are fearless of risking that accusation. Equally they don't proceed from any rigid avoidance of meaning, familiar sentence structure, or even a cliche if the cliche is true or necessary at that point in the poem. Unconcerned about academia or fashion, Tanikawa's poems, based in a genuine reverence before the world, have the simplicity and complexity of a very human voice." -Peter Boyle

Book Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of The Vietnamese Revolution  1885 1954

Download or read book Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of The Vietnamese Revolution 1885 1954 written by Christopher E. Goscha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Goscha resituates the Vietnamese revolution and war against the French into its Asian context. Breaking with nationalist and colonial historiographies which have largely locked Vietnam into 'Indochinese' or 'Nation-state' straightjackets, Goscha takes Thailand as his point of departure for exploring how the Vietnamese revolution was intimately linked to Asia between the birth of the 'Save the King Movement' in 1885 and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. But his study is more than just a political history. Goscha brings geography to bear on his subject with a passion. While he considers the little-known political movements of such well-known faces as Phan Boi Chau and Ho Chi Minh across Southeast Asia, the author takes us into the complex Asian networks stretching from northeastern Thailand and the port of Bangkok to southern China and Hong Kong - and beyond. There, we see how Ho and Chau drew upon an invisible army of Vietnamese and Chinese traders, criminals, prostitutes, sailors and above all the thousands of emigres living in Vietnamese communities in Thailand.

Book PACIFIC DASH

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  • Author : Chet Nairene
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-07-05
  • ISBN : 9780578947129
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book PACIFIC DASH written by Chet Nairene and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exotic, offbeat travel adventure where young Dashiell Bonaventure roams Asia's jungles, beaches and cities. Dash seeks truth, falls in love, saves lives and almost loses his own, learning that sometimes the best plan is no plan at all.

Book A Literature Survey of Environmental Factors in Thailand

Download or read book A Literature Survey of Environmental Factors in Thailand written by Jerald D. Broughton and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mobility Environmental Research Study

Download or read book Mobility Environmental Research Study written by Jerald D. Broughton and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature

Download or read book Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature written by Sk Sagir Ali and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies the representation of religion in South Asian Anglophone literature of the twentieth and twenty-first century. It traces the contours of South Asian writing through the consequences of the complex contesting forces of blasphemy and secularization. Employing a cross-disciplinary approach, it discusses various key issues such as religious fundamentalism, Islamophobia, religious majoritarianism, nationalism, and secularism. It also provides an account of the reception of this writing within the changing conceptions of racial "Others" and cultural difference, particularly with respect to minority writers, in terms of ethnic background and lack of access to social mobility. The volume features chapters on key texts, including The Hungry Tide, The Enchantress of Florence, In Times of Seige, One Part Woman, Anil’s Ghost, The Book of Gold Leaves, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, The Black Coat and Swarnalata, among others. An important contribution to the study of South Asian literature, the book will be indispensable for students and researchers of literary studies, religious studies, cultural studies, literary criticism, and South Asian studies.