Download or read book The Chrysantheme Papers written by Christopher Reed and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierre Loti’s novel Madame Chrysanthème (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author’s lifetime, served as a source of Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly, and remains in print to this day as a classic in Western literature. Loti’s story, cast in the form of his fictionalized diary, describes the affair between a French naval officer and Chrysanthème, a temporary "bride" purchased in Nagasaki. More broadly, Loti’s novel helped define the terms in which Occidentals perceived Japan as delicate, feminine, and, to use one of Loti’s favorite words, "preposterous"—in short, ripe for exploitation. The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysanthème (1893) sought, according to a newspaper reviewer at the time, "to avenge Japan for the adjectives that Pierre Loti has inflicted on it." Written by Félix Régamey, a talented illustrator with firsthand knowledge of Japan, The Pink Notebook retells Loti’s story but this time as the diary of Chrysanthème. The book, presented here in English for the first time and together with the original French text and illustrations by Régamey and others, is certainly surprising in its late nineteenth-century context. Its retelling of a classic tale from the position of a character marginalized by her sex and race provocatively anticipates certain aspects of postmodern literature. Translator Christopher Reed’s rich and satisfying introduction compares Loti and Régamey in relation to attitudes toward Japan held by notable Japonistes Vincent van Gogh, Lafcadio Hearn, Edmond de Goncourt, and Philippe Burty. Reed provides further intellectual context by including new translations of excerpts from Loti’s novel as well as a portion of the travel journal of Régamey’s travel companion, the renowned collector Emile Guimet. Reed’s emphasis on competing Western ideas about Japan challenges conventional scholarly generalizations concerning Japanism in this era. This elegant translation of The Pink Notebook and Japoniste documents will delight both general and specialized readers, particularly those interested in the ambiguities in the dynamics of nationalism, gender, identification, and exploitation that, since the nineteenth century, have characterized the West’s relationship to Japan.
Download or read book Portraits of Travel written by Caroline Bouron and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laugh, cry, and feel wonder alongside 26 real-life wanderers in Portraits of Travel. In 2015, Caroline Bouron embarked on a journey across the Pacific to discover what drives people to forsake comfort for life on the move. She ended up interviewing 26 globetrotting voyagers from 12 countries and all walks of life - cyclists, sailors, nomads traveling for weeks or years at a time. Though their reasons for roaming varied widely, the travellers shared one thing: encounters that profoundly shaped their trips and their selves. With raw candour recalling both breathtaking vistas and bumpy roads, the voyagers recount outstanding memories from chance romantic trysts to brushes with death that forever altered their worldviews. And interspersed with travel tips and hidden gems worth visiting across the protagonists’ homelands, their stories may just provide the inspiration for your next adventure. From lifelong nomad to novice wanderer, anyone with a flicker of wanderlust will see themselves reflected in these pages. So, grab your backpack and traverse the world through the eyes of these intrepid souls.
Download or read book Carnet De Campagne Du Colonel Trefcon 1793 1815 written by Colonel Toussaint-Jean Trefcon and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Un bon témoignage sur Hohenlinden où Trefcon participa comme sergent, sur la Bretagne où il fut exilé pour son attachement à Moreau, sur les guerres d’Espagne et de Russie, sur Waterloo (nombreux détails) et sur la vie d’un demi-solde. » p 164 - Professeur Jean Tulard, Bibliographie Critique Des Mémoires Sur Le Consulat Et L'Empire, Droz, Genève, 1971
Download or read book Turner en France written by Joseph Mallord William Turner and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Poems and Letters written by Arthur Rimbaud and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of poems that range from the exquisite to the obsene, while simultaneously living a life of dissolute excess with his lover and fellow poet, Verlaine. At the age of 21, he abandonned poetry and travelled across Europe before settling in Africa as an arms trader. This edition sets the two sides of Rimbaud side by side with a sparkling translation of his most exhilarating poetry and a generous selection of the letters from the harsh and colourful period of his life as a colonial trader.
Download or read book Marie Marvingt Fiancee of Danger written by Rosalie Maggio and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Marvingt (1875-1963) set the world's first women's aviation records, won the only gold medal for outstanding performance in all sports, invented the airplane ambulance, was the first female bomber pilot in history, fought in World War I disguised as a man, took part in the Resistance of World War II, was the first to survive crossing the English Channel in a balloon, worked all her life as a journalist, spent years in North Africa and invented metal skis. Her life story was so unusually rich in exploits and accomplishments that some dismissed it as a hoax. This biography explores the life of "the most incredible woman since Joan of Arc" and investigates the reasons she has been forgotten. Known as the "fiancee of danger," she was the model for the silent film series The Perils of Pauline.
Download or read book Subjects and Sojourners written by Charles Keith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Subjects and Sojourners explores how French colonial rule in Indochina extended Indochina's colonial society into France. Perhaps two hundred thousand Indochinese sojourned in France between conquest in the 1850s and decolonization a century later. They came from all parts of colonial society, from ruling monarchs to the most marginal laborers. In France, they studied, labored, fought, and lived in contexts that, although still within the empire, remained profoundly different from their places of origin. Their French sojourns were socially, culturally, and politically transformative. And when these sojourners returned to Indochina, virtually all parts of colonial society bore traces of their experiences abroad. Subjects and Sojourners shows, in short, that Indochina did not simply receive and refashion 'France' in the colony: they went and lived it for themselves"--
Download or read book Encore Tricolore Nouvelle 4 Copymasters and Assessment written by Heather Mascie-Taylor and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encore Tricolore nouvelle edition builds on the success of Encore Tricolore and Tricolore. The new edition is exactly the right level for middle to high ability. The course now incorporates new features to bring it in line with the revised GCSE and Standard Grade specifications.
Download or read book 9 jours Dublin N B written by Rémi Juillet and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage est avant tout un plaisir que je me fais, un rêve que je réalise, un simple carnet de voyage sans grandes prétentions. Ce n'est pas une grande aventure, ni une histoire très intéressante, c'est juste un honnête récit illustré d'un simple touriste qui aime dessiner. Je dédis donc ce carnet à mes proches.
Download or read book Journeys and Journals written by Farid Abdelouahab and published by Art Stock. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificently illustrated book traces the history of travel dairies from the earliest, sometimes crude, collections of drawings and notes to volumes that are today considered works of art in and of themselves. From scientists on expeditions to soldiers on colonial missions, from explorers on the high seas to artists in the jungle readers will find fascinating journals of astonishing beauty, some of them never before revealed to the public. This volume takes you on a voyage colored with the wonders and the discoveries of the last five hundred years, exploring an artistic territory in a constant state of flux.
Download or read book Voyage de noces travers la France written by Marie-Agnès et Karel BERTHET and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Du Jura à la Charente Maritime, des plaines de la Bresse au littoral landais, le carnet de route d'un voyage de noces atypique ou bonheurs et galères rythment les pas d'un jeune couple sur un chemin de légende.Ni aventuriers, ni sportifs, ni marcheurs, Marie-Agnès et Karel ont relevé ce défi entre mai et juillet 2011 et racontent à tour de rôle, avec humour et émotion, ce cheminement inoubliable à travers la France.
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Le grand dictionnaire Hachette Oxford written by Marie-Hélène Corréard and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 2084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that lists French language words and gives their equivalent in English, and English language words with their equivalent in French.
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Download or read book Napoleon written by Philip Dwyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Vibrant and illuminating ... [Dywer] tells a fascinating tale' The Times 'Refreshing scholarship ... Energetic, readable and filled with colourful detail ... Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection is a thoroughly enjoyable book which divides well the reality of exile from the legend that sprang from it' Literary Review This meticulously researched study opens with Napoleon no longer in power, but instead a prisoner on the island of St Helena. This may have been a great fall from power, but Napoleon still held immense attraction. Every day, huge crowds would gather on the far shore in the hope of catching a glimpse of him. Philip Dwyer closes his ambitious trilogy exploring Napoleon's life, legacy and myth by moving from those first months of imprisonment, through the years of exile, up to death and then beyond, examining how the foundations of legend that had been laid by Napoleon during his lifetime continued to be built upon by his followers. This is a fitting and authoritative end to a definitive work.
