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Book The Irresponsible Traveller

Download or read book The Irresponsible Traveller written by Jennifer Barclay and published by Bradt Guides. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishing to coincide with Bradt's 40th anniversary, The Irresponsible Traveller is a light but edgy collection of travellers' tales. Travel writers and celebrities alike recount their exciting, and often dangerous, adventures which include being chased by a sea lion, accosted by Brazilian kidnappers and a midnight raid to free turtles on the Amazon. Over 40 years Bradt has built a reputation for publishing books covering the road less travelled, and this collection celebrates exactly the sort of writing and storytelling about 'unusual' travel experiences that has helped to establish the company as a firm favourite amongst adventurous travellers. Featuring contributions from Hilary Bradt, Michael Palin, Ben Fogle and Jonathan Scott, the title is a perfect tome to dip in and out of.

Book The Irresponsible Traveller

Download or read book The Irresponsible Traveller written by Simon Calder and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishing to coincide with Bradt's 40th anniversary, The Irresponsible Traveller is a light but edgy collection of travellers' tales. Travel writers and celebrities alike recount their exciting, and often dangerous, adventures which include being chased by a sea lion, accosted by Brazilian kidnappers and a midnight raid to free turtles on the Amazon. Over 40 years Bradt has built a reputation for publishing books covering the road less travelled, and this collection celebrates exactly the sort of writing and storytelling about 'unusual' travel experiences that has helped to establish the company as a firm favourite amongst adventurous travellers.

Book The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing

Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing written by Alasdair Pettinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves. The volume adopts a thematic approach, with each contributor considering a specific aspect of travel writing – a recurrent motif, an organising principle or a literary form. All of the essays include a discussion of representative travel texts, to ensure that the volume as a whole represents a broad historical and geographical range of travel writing. Together, the 25 essays and the editors’ introduction offer a comprehensive and authoritative reflection of the state of travel writing criticism and lay the ground for future developments.

Book Suffolk  Slow Travel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laurence Mitchell
  • Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
  • Release : 2014-03-01
  • ISBN : 1841625507
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Suffolk Slow Travel written by Laurence Mitchell and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suffolk represents quintessential East Anglia, a region that has locally distinctive architectural styles, regional accents, scenery, culture and climate. The county, which is low-lying but by no means flat, has some of its best scenery along the coast: a soft, dreamy landscape of river estuaries, remote marshes, reed-beds, beaches, shingle banks, sand spits and dunes. Elsewhere in the county can be found undulating farmland, sandy heaths, shady river banks and extensive forests. The area also has much appeal to visitors for its manmade heritage: the distinctive rural architecture of the Stour Valley (with its Constable painting associations) on the Suffolk-Essex border, the ancient town of Bury St Edmunds, the great country houses with their estates, ancient thatched churches hidden away from view and unspoiled market towns. Suffolk is also well known for its Anglo-Saxon heritage - the royal ceremonial burial site at Sutton Hoo and the reconstructed Anglo-Saxon village at West Stow.

Book North York Moors  Slow Travel

Download or read book North York Moors Slow Travel written by Mike Bagshaw and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2014 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide takes you to the quiet North eastern corner of Yorkshire, where the county meets the sea. It celebrates the countryside of the North York Moors National Park, the Howardian Hills AONB and the Yorkshire Wolds. It also features the Yorkshire folk that live here and have moulded these beautiful landscapes, including the 'slow' and historical city of York.

Book The Traveller s Library

Download or read book The Traveller s Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Baedeker

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harry Thurston Peck
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2016-05-19
  • ISBN : 9781357312763
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book The New Baedeker written by Harry Thurston Peck and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Dial

Download or read book The Dial written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wild Abandon

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  • Author : Jennifer Barclay
  • Publisher : Bradt Guides
  • Release : 2020-05-01
  • ISBN : 1784777900
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Wild Abandon written by Jennifer Barclay and published by Bradt Guides. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A vivid and intoxicating account of these beautiful islands” – Victoria Hislop “A must-read for anyone who loves the Greek islands” – Richard Clark ‘There’s something about abandoned places which moves me and captures the imagination.’ So says seasoned travel writer Jennifer Barclay as she walks with her dog and her backpack through the deserted spaces of the Dodecanese, islands that were once bustling but are now half forgotten and reclaimed by the wild due to a mix of misfortune and the lure of opportunity elsewhere. Join her on a journey through abandoned villages and farms, cave-houses and captains’ mansions, the homes of displaced Muslim fishermen and poets, as she discovers beauty in the ruins, emptiness and silence, and inspiration in the stories of people’s lives. A long-term resident of Greece, Jennifer Barclay spent more than four years researching Wild Abandon, visiting islands multiple times and talking to local people to hear their stories. She travels from the very west to the very east of the Dodecanese, from the very south almost to the very north, taking in some of the smallest and the biggest islands, and highlighting different stories along the way to show the complex history behind these havens of tranquillity. She discovers a villa intended for Benito Mussolini’s retirement, an island that links a gramophone from St Petersburg and a portrait in the American National Gallery via a pack of cigarettes, and reflects on the days when an economy based on sponges and burnt rock supported thousands. Wild Abandon is an elegy in praise of abandoned places and a search for lost knowledge through the wildest and most deserted locations.

Book The Bookman

Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Oldly Go

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  • Author : Brian Jackman
  • Publisher : Bradt Guides
  • Release : 2015-09-03
  • ISBN : 1784770272
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book To Oldly Go written by Brian Jackman and published by Bradt Guides. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collectie van 41 waargebeurde reisverhalen van 60-plussers.

Book Outer Hebrides

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  • Author : Mark Rowe
  • Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
  • Release : 2017-04-10
  • ISBN : 1784770361
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Outer Hebrides written by Mark Rowe and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: adt's new guide to the Outer Hebrides: The Western Isles of Scotland, from Lewis to Barra, by experienced writer and journalist Mark Rowe is the only full-size guide to focus solely on the islands of Lewis, Harris, St Kilda, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, Eriskay, Barra and Vatersay. Masses of background information is included, from geography and geology to art and architecture, with significant coverage of wildlife, too, as well as all the practical details you could need: when to visit, suggested itineraries, public holidays and festivals, local culture, plus accommodation and where to eat and drink. Walkers, bird-watchers, wildlife photographers, beach lovers and genealogists are all catered for, and this is an ideal guide for those who travel simply with curious minds to discover far-flung places of great cultural, historical and wildlife interest. The Outer Hebrides is an archipelago of 15 inhabited islands and more than 50 others that are free of human footprint. Huge variations in landscape are found across the islands, from Lewisian gneiss, which dates back almost three billion years, to rugged Harris with its magnificent sands running down its western flanks and the windswept, undulating flatness and jagged sea lochs of the Uists. This is a land where Gaelic is increasingly spoken and ancient monuments abound, where stunning seabird colonies and birds of prey can be watched, and where the grassy coastal zones known as the machair are transformed into glorious carpets of wildfllowers in late spring and summer. Whether visiting the Standing Stones of Callanish, the Uig peninsula, Barra's Castle Bay, or historic St Kilda, or if you just want to experience the romance of the Sound of Harris, one of the most beautiful ferry journeys in the world, Bradt's Outer Hebrides: The Western Isles of Scotland, from Lewis to Barra has all the information you need.

Book The Living Age

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 780 pages

Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Norfolk  Slow Travel

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  • Author : Laurence Mitchell
  • Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
  • Release : 2014-03-01
  • ISBN : 1841625515
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book Norfolk Slow Travel written by Laurence Mitchell and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slow Norfolk, although selective, includes the whole of Norfolk from Great Yarmouth and the Broads to the east to the Fens of the far west, from the iconic North Norfolk coast to the Breckland region to the south. The Norfolk landscape is far more variable than many imagine and not quite as flat as it is usually reputed to be. The North Norfolk coast, considered to be one of the most beautiful stretches in England, is also a hugely important habitat for wildlife especially migrating birds. The interior of the county tends to be more overlooked yet also much to offer, especially in terms of landscape, historic monuments and characterful market towns. The county has a rich mix of architectural variety, with numerous country houses, medieval churches, Roman forts and Norman castles. The county capital Norwich is an important centre for art and culture, with its acclaimed Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and the annual, highly rated Norwich and Norfolk Festival.

Book Cultures and Politics of Global Communication  Volume 34  Review of International Studies

Download or read book Cultures and Politics of Global Communication Volume 34 Review of International Studies written by Costas M. Constantinou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue of Review of International Studies focuses on how International Relations (IR) communicates with the world, and vice versa. It opens up the discussion of the politics of communication within the discipline and beyond. With a variety of different mediums ranging from media, film, memory, music, culture, and emotions, this book seeks to accentuate their importance for IR, both as a source of knowledge and as an ideational exchange which shapes IR. It examines the diverse ways that multidisciplinary thinkers try to understand and explain global routes, mobilities, cultures, commodifications, singularities, discourses and aestheticisations. This special issue specifically addresses three interrelated themes: How international and global studies approach the question of communication, how to conceptualise and respond to the globalisation of communication and how global problems get communicated within and across the institutional settings of the epistemic disciplines in general, and the IR discipline in particular.

Book The New Baedeker

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  • Author : Harry Thurston Peck
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-07-13
  • ISBN : 9781331310082
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book The New Baedeker written by Harry Thurston Peck and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Baedeker: Being Casual Notes of an Irresponsible Traveller About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.