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Book The Antipodean Express

Download or read book The Antipodean Express written by Gregory Hill and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic journey from New Zealand to Spain, celebrating the enduring romance of travel by train. The journey of The Antipodean Express takes in 89 days of travel, on 33 trains, through 19 countries. It begins in New Zealand's North Island, weaves past the volcanoes of Java, through East Asia and on into Europe. From hilarious miscommunications in China to cultural immersion at the Bolshoi Ballet, there are stop-offs with half a world’s worth of impressions, people, history, food, music and culture. Hill also describes most of the great trains of the Eurasian hemisphere, from New Zealand’s Northern Explorer to the Eurostar, and everything in between. The culmination is a day spent in the obscure Spanish village of Alaejos, locating the exact antipode of the author’s living room. The perfect end to a vast adventure.

Book The Antipodean

Download or read book The Antipodean written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Idea of the Antipodes

Download or read book The Idea of the Antipodes written by Matthew Boyd Goldie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-31 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study that uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes - the places and people on the other side of the world - from ancient Greece to present-day literature and digital media.

Book Le Corbusier in the Antipodes

Download or read book Le Corbusier in the Antipodes written by Antony Moulis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the architect Le Corbusier’s encounters with Australia and New Zealand as a two-way exchange, showing the impact of his ideas and projects on architects of the region whilst also revealing counterinfluences on Le Corbusier in his post-war career that were activated by his contacts. Compiled from detailed archival research undertaken at the Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris, and nationally based archives, Le Corbusier in the Antipodes brings together a set of episodes placing them in context with the history of modern art, architecture and urbanism in 20th century Australia and New Zealand. Key exchanges between Le Corbusier and others never before described are presented and analyzed, including Le Corbusier’s contact with Australian architect Harry Seidler at Chandigarh, Le Corbusier’s drawing of the plan of Adelaide in 1950 and his creative collaboration with Jorn Utzon on art for the Sydney Opera House. This book also includes analysis of previously unseen Le Corbusier artworks, which formed part of the Utzon family collection. In reading these personal and contingent moments of encounter, the book puts forward new ways of understanding the dissemination and mediation of Le Corbusier’s ideas and their effects in post-war Australia and New Zealand. These antipodean contacts are set against the broader story of Le Corbusier’s career, questioning received interpretations of his design methods and current assumptions about the influence of his work in national contexts beyond Europe.

Book Imagining the Antipodes

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  • Author : Peter Beilharz
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002-08-22
  • ISBN : 9780521524346
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Imagining the Antipodes written by Peter Beilharz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Smith is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading intellectuals. Yet the recognition of his work has been partial, focused on art history and anthropology. Peter Beilharz argues that Smith's work also contains a social theory, or a way of thinking about Australian culture and identity in the world system. Smith enables us to think matters of place and cultural imperialism through the image of being not Australian so much as antipodean. Australian identities are constructed by the relationship between core and periphery, making them both European and Other at the same time. This 1997 work is a book-length analysis of Bernard Smith's work and is the result of careful and systematic research into Smith's published works and his private papers. It is both an introduction to Smith's thinking and an important interpretive argument about imperialism and the antipodes.

Book The Antipodean Laboratory

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  • Author : Anna Johnston
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2023-09-30
  • ISBN : 1009195921
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book The Antipodean Laboratory written by Anna Johnston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnston shows how colonial knowledge from Australia influenced global thinking about religion, science, and society. Using a rich variety of sources including botanical illustrations, Victorian literature and convict memoirs, this multi-disciplinary study charts how new ways of identifying ideas were forged and circulated between colonies.

Book Antipodean America

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  • Author : Paul Giles
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0199301565
  • Pages : 590 pages

Download or read book Antipodean America written by Paul Giles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred years of literary history, Antipodean America identifies the surprising affinites between Australian and American literature.

Book Images of the Antipodes in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Images of the Antipodes in the Eighteenth Century written by David Fausett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Europeans view the unknown region at their antipodes in early times, before the explorations of Captain Cook and others made it well known? Throughout the ages it has evoked fantastic images which affected the arts and sciences, and the evolution of the novel in the century prior to the major discoveries was influenced in the same way. The eighteenth century was also a critical phase in European social history, a time when many modern patterns of economic life and international relations were formed. Distant explorations and discoveries bore implications for that process, which tended to be worked out in fictional voyages mingling fact with fiction. Images of the Antipodes asks what these can tell us about Europe's expansion to the limits of the New World - about the first contacts between cultures with very different worldviews, about the colonial relations that followed, and about the geopolitics of the region since then. They offer a perspective on cross- cultural relationships generally - nowhere more apparent than in their use of ancient images of the antipodes. This is the third part of a study on the intellectual history of travel fiction, and deals with the period from the 1720s to the 1790s, focusing on an issue that is as vital now as it was then: cultural or racial stereotyping, and the link between this and the differing politico-economic aspirations of peoples. It is a dual problem of exploitation, which has been associated with the antipodes since the beginnings of Western literature. The book discusses teratological fantasies, the literary background in utopias and Robinsonades, Gulliver's Travels and other travel fiction from mid-century onwards, the parallels between real and imaginary voyages, and the way the latter often prefigured the rise of modern anthropology and of colonial relationships in the austral regions. Particularly relevant was the odd blend of arcadianism and horror inspired by, or projected onto, these places in the later eighteenth century - as it had long been in the past. The works discussed are chiefly English and French, but include other European examples of the type.

Book Yale Studies in English

Download or read book Yale Studies in English written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Richard Brome

Download or read book Richard Brome written by Clarence Edward Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yale Studies in English

Download or read book Yale Studies in English written by Clarence Edward Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Antipodean Antiquities

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  • Author : Marguerite Johnson
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-03-21
  • ISBN : 1350021253
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Antipodean Antiquities written by Marguerite Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on modern literature, film, theatre and fine art, this volume fills a decisive gap in the literature by bringing antipodean research into the spotlight. Following a contextual introduction to the field, the six parts of the volume explore the latest research on subjects that range from the Lord of the Rings and Xena: Warrior Princess franchises to important artists such as Sidney Nolan and local authors whose work offers opportunities for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis with well-known Western authors and artists.

Book Foreign Advertising Methods

Download or read book Foreign Advertising Methods written by Charles S. Hart and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imperial Culture in Antipodean Cities  1880 1939

Download or read book Imperial Culture in Antipodean Cities 1880 1939 written by J. Griffiths and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, this book explores how far imperial culture penetrated antipodean city institutions. It argues that far from imperial saturation, the city 'Down Under' was remarkably untouched by the Empire.

Book Meliora

Download or read book Meliora written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drama

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Drama written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Principles of Equity and Trusts

Download or read book The Principles of Equity and Trusts written by Graham Virgo and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Principles of Equity and Trusts offers a refreshing, student-focused approach to a dynamic area of law. In the fourth edition of his best-selling textbook, Professor Graham Virgo brings his expertise as a teacher to deliver an engaging, contextual account of the essential principles oftrusts and their equitable remedies.Virgo states the law in plain terms before building on an area of debate and encouraging students to fully engage with the inherent issues within the subject. Concise and authoritative analysis enables students to grasp the principles of trusts, develop the confidence to engage fully with thesubject area, and excel in their studies.Virgo approaches the topics with unparalleled clarity and provides the academic rigour for which this text has come to be relied upon. Combining expert knowledge and comprehensive coverage, The Principles of Equity and Trusts is the ideal companion to a course in trusts.Online resourcesThe textbook is accompanied by extensive online resources aimed at supporting and enhancing student's knowledge of the topics learned within the book. This includes self-test and scenario-style questions, videos from the author, web links to key cases, articles and statutory materials, andflowcharts and diagrams exploring legal concepts. There will also be updates to changes in the law that explore key developments in the subject area.