Download or read book Travellers Tales of Wonder written by Simon Cooke and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring travellers' tales of wonder in contemporary literature, this study challenges a sensibility of disenchantment with travel. It reassesses travel writing as an aesthetically and ethically innovative form in contemporary international literature, and demonstrates the crucial role of wonder in the travel narratives of writers such as Bruce Chatwin, V.S. Naipaul, and W.G. Sebald. Their 'travellers' tales of wonder' are read as a challenge to the hubris of thinking the world too well known, and an invitation to encounter the world - including its most troubling histories - with a sense of wonder.
Download or read book The Wonder Book of Travellers Tales written by Henry Cadwaller Adams and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wonder Book of Travellers Tales written by Henry Cadwallader Adams and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages written by Arthur Percival Newton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully complied work marks an important contribution to the history of Medieval travel. It will appeal to the scholar and to the general reader. It covers such areas as the conception of the world in the Middle Ages, Christian pilgrimages, the Vikings, Arab travellers, traveller’s tales of the East and Prester John.
Download or read book Wonder Book of Travellers Tales written by Henry Cadwallader Adams and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wonder Book of Traveller tales written by H. C. Adams and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The wonder book of travellers tales written by Henry C. Adams and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Continuation of the Stories of Old Daniel or Tales of wonder and delight etc written by Old DANIEL and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of Wonder written by Mark Twain and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 1984 as The science fiction of Mark Twain by Archon Books ... North Haven, CT"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book Wonder Tales of Old Japan written by Bernard Lionel Kinghorn Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of British Travel Writing written by Barbara Schaff and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.
Download or read book History as Wonder written by Marnie Hughes-Warrington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and Wonder is a refreshing new take on the idea of history that tracks the entanglement of history and philosophy over time through the key idea of wonder. From Ancient Greek histories and wonder works, to Islamic curiosities and Chinese strange histories, through to European historical cabinets of curiosity and on to histories that grapple with the horrors of the Holocaust, Marnie Hughes-Warrington unpacks the ways in which historians throughout the ages have tried to make sense of the world, and to change it. This book considers histories and historians across time and space, including the Ancient Greek historian Polybius, the medieval texts by historians such as Bede in England and Ibn Khaldun in Islamic Historiography, and the more recent works by Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray and Ranajit Guha among others. It explores the different ways in which historians have called upon wonder to cross boundaries between the past and the present, the universal and the particular, the old and the new, and the ordinary and the extraordinary. Promising to both delight and unsettle, it shows how wonder works as the beginning of historiography. Accessible, engaging and wide-ranging, History as Wonder provides an original addition to the field of historiography that is ideal for those both new to and familiar with the study of history.
Download or read book Travellers tales by the author of Busy bee written by Travellers and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wonder Tales of Architecture written by Louise Lamprey and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Traveller in Time written by Alison Uttley and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “superb” time travel adventure of one lonely young girl, a remarkable family, and an impossible task, set between modern and Elizabethan England (The Washington Post) "A beautiful book . . . a form of enchanting ghost story, with the ghosts drawn in with the grace of a painter on a fan." —The Observer Penelope Taberner Cameron is a solitary and a sickly child, a reader and a dreamer. Her mother, indeed, is of the opinion that the girl has grown all too attached to the products of her imagination and decides to send her away from London for a restorative dose of fresh country air. But staying at Thackers, in remote Derbyshire, Penelope is soon caught up in a new mystery, as she finds herself transported at unforeseeable intervals back and forth from modern to Elizabethan times. There she becomes part of a remarkable family that is, Penelope realizes, in terrible danger as they plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots, from the prison in which Queen Elizabeth has confined her. Penelope knows the tragic end that awaits the Scottish queen, but she can neither change the course of events nor persuade her new family of the hopelessness of their cause, which love, loyalty, and justice all compel them to embrace. Caught between present and past, Penelope is ever more torn by questions of freedom and fate. To travel in time, she discovers, is to be very much alone. And yet the slow recurrent rhythms of the natural world, beautifully captured by Alison Uttley, also speak of a greater ongoing life that transcends the passage of the years.
Download or read book The Publishers and Stationers Weekly Trade Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sampo A Wonder Tale of the Old North written by James Baldwin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book James Baldwin retells a Finnish legend in prose from the Kalevala (the old poetic name for Finland and the legends told in verse). The Sampo was a wonderful mill which was able to make fortunes and wealth and power for its owner.
