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Book Grand Tourist 3

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ellen Boer
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2021-11-02
  • ISBN : 1664111859
  • Pages : 1203 pages

Download or read book Grand Tourist 3 written by Ellen Boer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 1203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how one can, in a lifetime, experience the world as directly as possible. It is a practical matter; travel takes time and money. The earth is a big place, and one must be selective about what one sees and how one travels. For us travel has been a lifetime progression, starting with student budgets, then building on corporate travel, and progressing to less accessible locales. As we became seniors, we were more limited in physical adventure, but more able to experience upscale lodgings and to engage local experts. Each of these stages afforded its own viewpoint and enriched the experience of the accessible world. Beyond having enjoyed the great journey ourselves, we have shared it both with children and grandchildren.

Book Grand Tourist 3

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  • Author : Ellen And Peter Boer
  • Publisher : Xlibris Us
  • Release : 2021-11-02
  • ISBN : 9781664111844
  • Pages : 540 pages

Download or read book Grand Tourist 3 written by Ellen And Peter Boer and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how one can, in a lifetime, experience the world as directly as possible. It is a practical matter; travel takes time and money. The earth is a big place, and one must be selective about what one sees and how one travels. For us travel has been a lifetime progression, starting with student budgets, then building on corporate travel, and progressing to less accessible locales. As we became seniors, we were more limited in physical adventure, but more able to experience upscale lodgings and to engage local experts. Each of these stages afforded its own viewpoint and enriched the experience of the accessible world. Beyond having enjoyed the great journey ourselves, we have shared it both with children and grandchildren.

Book The Grand Tour

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  • Author : William K. Hartmann
  • Publisher : Workman Publishing
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780761139096
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The Grand Tour written by William K. Hartmann and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a series of paintings, photographs, drawings, and text that take a guided trip through the solar system, featuring the latest in scientific thought and data.

Book The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century written by William Edward Mead and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Italy and the Grand Tour

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  • Author : Jeremy Black
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300099775
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Italy and the Grand Tour written by Jeremy Black and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For members of the social elite in 18th-century England, extended travel for pleasure came to be considered part of an ideal education as well as an important symbol of social status. Italy, and especially Rome - a fashionable, exciting, and comfortable city - became the focus of such early tourists' interest. In this book, historian Jeremy Black recreates the actual tourist experiences of those who travelled to Italy on a Grand Tour. Relying on the private diaries and personal letters of travellers, rather than on the self-conscious accounts of literary travellers who wrote for wider audiences, the book presents an authentic picture of how British tourists experienced Italy, its landscapes, women, food, music, Catholicism, and more. illustrations, the book highlights the discrepancy between the idealised view of the Grand Tour and its reality: what people were meant to do was not necessarily what they did, what the guide books described as splendid was not always so perceived. Black quotes British visitors as they reflect on their trips, and he discusses what their Italian experiences meant to them. And he considers the intriguing effects of tourism on British culture during this most exciting of centuries.

Book Grand Tours and Cook s Tours

Download or read book Grand Tours and Cook s Tours written by Lynne Withey and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1997 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Grand Tours and Cook's Tours' is the story of intellectuals and the very rich, the not so rich, the infamous and the anonymous seeking adventure and satisfying ways of exploring the world, from the mid-18th century to World War One.

Book Grand Tourist

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  • Author : Ellen and Peter Boer
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2013-03
  • ISBN : 1483603040
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Grand Tourist written by Ellen and Peter Boer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Peter asked Ellen to marry him some fifty years ago she asked what he thought their life would be like. He answered, I will show you the world. Their own Grand Tour has taken them to seven continents and over a hundred thirty countries, and to favorite sites many dozens of times. Their love of history, geography and wildlife has led them to explore the Polar Regions, the African savanna, and the ruins of great civilizations. In this volume, they recount not only the best venues but share their practical insights into how to plan a perfect trip.

Book The Legacy of the Grand Tour

Download or read book The Legacy of the Grand Tour written by Lisa Colletta and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling. This volume examines the ways in which the legacy of the Grand Tour is still evident in works of travel and literature. From its aristocratic origins and the permutations of sentimental and romantic travel to the age of tourism and globalization, the Grand Tour still influences the destinations tourists choose and shapes the ideas of culture and sophistication that surround the act of travel. The essays in this collection examine a wide variety of literature—travel, memoir, and fiction—and explore the ways travel and ideas of “culture” have evolved since the heyday of the Grand Tour in the 18th century. The sites of the Grand Tour remain a powerful cultural draw, and they continue to define ideas of taste and learning for those who visit them.

Book Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth century Grand Tour

Download or read book Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth century Grand Tour written by Sarah Goldsmith and published by Institute of Historical Research. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Tour, a customary trip of Europe undertaken by British nobility and wealthy landed gentry during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, played an important role in the formation of contemporary notions of elite masculinity. 0Examining testimony as written by Grand Tourists, tutors and their families, Goldsmith demonstrates that the Grand Tour educated elite young men in a wide variety of skills, virtues and masculine behaviours that extended well beyond polite society. She argues that dangerous experiences were far more central to the Tour as a means of constructing Britain's next generation of leaders than has previously been examined. Influenced by aristocratic concepts of honour and inspired by military leadership, elites viewed experiences of danger and hardship as powerfully transformative and therefore as central to the process of constructing masculinity.0Far from viewing danger as a disruptive force, Grand Tourists willingly tackled a variety of social, geographical and physical perils, gambling their way through treacherous landscapes; scaling mountains, volcanoes and glaciers; and encountering war and disease. Through the study of danger, Goldsmith offers a revision of eighteenth-century elite masculine culture and the critical role the Grand Tour played within this.

Book Global Tourism

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  • Author : Ahana Chakraborty
  • Publisher : APH Publishing
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9788131301982
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book Global Tourism written by Ahana Chakraborty and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Framing Childhood in Eighteenth century English Periodicals and Prints  1689 1789

Download or read book Framing Childhood in Eighteenth century English Periodicals and Prints 1689 1789 written by Anja Müller and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding light on an important and neglected topic in childhood studies, Anja Müller interrogates how different concepts of childhood proliferated and were construed in eighteenth-century periodicals and satirical prints. In examining links between text and image, Müller uncovers the role these media played in the genealogy of childhood prior to the 1790s, challenging the myth that situates the origin of childhood in late eighteenth-century England.

Book The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle

Download or read book The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle written by Neil Blackmore and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: __________________________ 'Seductive, decadent, cruel and utterly thrilling - just like Horace Lavelle himself. This is The Talented Mr Ripley for the twenty-first century.' Emma Flint, author of Little Deaths 'An enjoyable dip into decadence.' Observer __________________________ Brothers Benjamin and Edgar have so far led a quiet life, but change is afoot as they enter a world of glorious sights and People of Quality on their Grand Tour of Europe. But a trunk full of powdered silver wigs and matching suits isn't enough to embed them into high society. As Edgar clings on to conventions, Benjamin pushes against them. And when the charming, seductive Horace Lavelle promises Benjamin a real adventure, it's only a matter of time before chaos and love ensue. __________________________ 'A fizzing, seductive queer romance.' i Paper 'Wildly entertaining and painfully heartbreaking ... Neil Blackmore writes with a fizzy wit that bounds his characters off the page.' Ben Aldridge

Book Gaze s Tourists Gazette

Download or read book Gaze s Tourists Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narratives of Travel and Tourism

Download or read book Narratives of Travel and Tourism written by Dr Jacqueline Tivers and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel and tourism 'stories' have been told and recorded within every culture, in every period of oral and written history, and across the breadth of the fact/fiction continuum. Taking two broad themes as its starting point - travellers and their narratives, and place narratives in travel and tourism - the book has a deliberately wide scope, with different chapters addressing the subject through various relevant 'lenses' and in relation to a number of different contexts. The narratives discussed include both historical and contemporary, as well as 'real-life' and fictional, narratives contained within travel writing, travel and tourism stories and different types of media. In relation to the principal themes of the book, some chapters also explore the importance of collecting memorabilia and image making in the recording, remembering, writing, telling or disseminating of stories about travel and tourism experiences and some examine the ways in which travel and tourism narratives may construct and reinforce personal, collective and place identities. The whole book is marked by an over-arching concern for narrative interpretation as a means of understanding, and providing a new perspective on, travel and tourism.

Book The Grand Tour

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  • Author : Harry Seidler
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9783822837801
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Grand Tour written by Harry Seidler and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. European Investment Bank (EIB) Handbook

Book The Map Tour

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  • Author : Hugh Thomson
  • Publisher : Andre Deutsch
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9780233005560
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Map Tour written by Hugh Thomson and published by Andre Deutsch. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Produced in collaboration with the Royal Geographic Society, this illuminating volume looks at the ways in which maps facilitated, dictated, and directed the burgeoning travel industry. Arranged chronologically from the seventeenth century on, and featuring the personal anecdotes, diary extracts, and photographs of intrepid early travelers, this exquisite collection of maps traces the evolution of tourism. Part travel guide, part social history, it charts a course across the globe on the first steam voyages, captures the romance of the golden age of train travel, and delves into the very heart of why we journey to new lands: for adventure; for education; for escapism; for pilgrimage. As it stretches from the elite realms of the Grand Tour to beyond the boundaries of the known world, this book showcases the progress in cartography, and reveals how people used maps to navigate their immediate environment and understand their place in the world. In looking back, it considers the shape of global tourism today, reflecting on just how accessible--or hostile--the world has become.

Book Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour

Download or read book Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour written by Chloe Chard and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the forms of language that map out Italy as an imaginative topography of pleasure within British and French travel writing, over the period 1600 to 1830. It considers the tour with reference to strategies of description and themes.