Download or read book Sky Roaming Above Two Continents written by Harry Alverson Franck and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franck had many adventures, not all of them pleasant, but all described in his plain, somewhat sarcastic style, which was the antithesis of the highly romantic prose of other popular travel writers, such as Richard Halliburton. His books intimately recorded life as it was lived in the societies he visited, at a time when many of them were changing rapidly due to industrialization. They are an important historical source for their pen-portraits of figures of the time. Some may find it hard to believe the societies he describes existed less than a century ago. Many of his racist observations mirror the attitudes of his time. In 1938 Franck was 57 and began to travel by air, which was still a novelty at that time. He wrote Sky Roaming Above Two Continents in 1938. -- Wikipedia.
Download or read book Sky Roaming Above Two Continents written by Harry Alverson Franck and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sky Roaming Above Two Continents written by Harry Alverson Franck and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franck had many adventures, not all of them pleasant, but all described in his plain, somewhat sarcastic style, which was the antithesis of the highly romantic prose of other popular travel writers, such as Richard Halliburton. His books intimately recorded life as it was lived in the societies he visited, at a time when many of them were changing rapidly due to industrialization. They are an important historical source for their pen-portraits of figures of the time. Some may find it hard to believe the societies he describes existed less than a century ago. Many of his racist observations mirror the attitudes of his time. In 1938 Franck was 57 and began to travel by air, which was still a novelty at that time. He wrote Sky Roaming Above Two Continents in 1938. -- Wikipedia.
Download or read book Quarterly Review written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1938 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section: "Some Michigan books."
Download or read book Mapping Travel written by Jordana Dym and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a thousand years of European travel writing and mapmaking, Dym suggests that after centuries of text-based itineraries and on-the spot directions guiding travelers and constituting their reports, maps in the fifteenth century emerged as tools for Europeans to support and report the results of land and sea travel. With each succeeding generation, these linear journey maps have become increasingly common and complex, responding to changes in forms of transportation, such as air and motor car ‘flight’ and print technology, especially the advent of multi-color printing. This is their story.
Download or read book American Daredevil written by Cathryn J. Prince and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a polished walking stick and neatly pressed trousers, Richard Halliburton served as an intrepid globetrotting guide for millions of Americans in the 1920s and '30s. Readers waited with bated breath for each new article and book he wrote. During his career, Halliburton climbed the Matterhorn, nearly fell out of his plane while shooting the first aerial photographs of Mount Everest, and became the first person to swim the full length of the Panama Canal. With his matinee idol looks, the Tennessee native was a media darling in an era of optimism and increased social openness. But as the Great Depression and looming war pushed America toward social conservatism, Halliburton more actively worked to hide his homosexuality, burnishing his image as a masculine trailblazer. No middle ground existed regarding Halliburton—he was either adored or abhorred. Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald called the Princeton graduate a poseur, a symbol of nouveau riche depravity. But most found his daredevil persona irresistible. As chronicled in American Daredevil, Halliburton harnessed the media of his day to gain and maintain a widespread following long before our age of the twenty-four-hour news cycle, and thus became the first adventure journalist. And during the darkest hours of the Great Depression, Halliburton did something remarkable: he inspired generations of authors, journalists, and everyday people who dreamed of fame and glory to explore the world.
Download or read book Looking at Life Through American Literature written by Nellie Mae Lombard and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1940 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Travel Writing written by Nandini Das and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together original contributions from scholars across the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of this genre.
Download or read book Opportunities in Aviation written by Seth Babits and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Michigan Authors written by Michigan Association for Media in Education and published by Association. This book was released on 1981 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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