Download or read book The Reluctant Traveller written by Jeff Rozelaar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may be seen as perverse that someone who believes himself to be one of the world's worse travellers should feel compelled to write a book on travel. The task has been undertaken in the knowledge that there are likely to be countless others who share my reluctance to see "The Lonely Planet." For them, and the bolder spirits with the opposite attitude, entertainment may be derived from the candid confessions of a neurotic who is aware that the world will laugh at one who considers a walk to the local crossroads, a day out. Friends, with deliberate irony and a superficial knowledge of the Classics, refer to me as "Homer," knowing of this aversion to Odysseys. This amusing tale follows this "Reluctant Traveller" on a recent West Coast, Canadian and U.S. road trip.
Download or read book The Reluctant Traveler written by Corinne Aarsen and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meredith and her troubled teenage niece Kimberly find themselves in an unknown, medieval-like land, the home of her exotic childhood friends. Meredith eventually reunites with Lox-a man even more charismatic and intriguing than the boy she remembered-but the pleasure of their reunion soon evaporates in a cloud of confusion and betrayal.
Download or read book The Misadventures of a Reluctant Traveller written by Dean Macallister and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reluctant Traveller written by Marjorie P. Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reluctant Traveller written by Lori Guretzki and published by . This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reluctant Traveler is a true travel story about the trials and tribulations of an average Canadian couple vacationing in Peru, South America. It is written in a day by day diary format. The reader who has traveled to Peru will no doubt relive their journey however in a much different way or possibly not and to the arm chair reader, they will live each day as the author did, trying to enjoy a holiday in a country with few modern conveniences, unbearable heat and huge insects. The Reluctant Traveler is sure to amuse and entertain its readers.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Reluctant Traveller written by Sudesh Mishra and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sudesh Mishra was born in Suva, Fiji, and took his doctorate from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1989. He received the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for his published verse, including his collection Rahu (1987). He has since published a second volume, Tandava (1992), a passionate indictment of the 1987 coup in Fiji.
Download or read book The Reluctant Traveller written by Bill Lumley and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After enraging England (writing as Bill Murphy) in Home Truths, Bill Lumley is back in the first of the 'Reluctant Traveller' series. Forced to make good on a drunken promise to travel to Ethiopia to document a journey to the pinnacle of the lost mountain of Wehni, Lumley sets about annoying his mate Gar, his fellow travellers, and a huge number of Ethiopians. As he pursues his quest to avoid all work, any strenuous activity and paying for booze, he plots escape routes back his favourite Bethnal Green watering hole, only to be thwarted at every turn.
Download or read book The Reluctant Time Traveller written by Janis Mackay and published by Floris Books. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Saul and Agnes don't do something their den will be destroyed. But the title deeds that could save it were lost in 1914. Good job they know the secret of time travel!Still, is travelling back in time to a world on the verge of war really a good idea? When Agnes disappears Saul has no choice -- he can't let her go to the past on her own.100 years before their own time, Saul and Agnes meet a brother and sister, servants at a big house where a sinister visitor is expected. Together the new friends try to uncover the mystery but Saul and Agnes know time is running out. Soon a war will begin: can they risk altering the past, the present and their future?This fun, time-twisting sequel to The Accidental Time Traveller -- winner of the Scottish Children's Book Award 2013 -- is full of historical details about World War One and will bring early-twentieth-century Scotland to life for young readers.
Download or read book Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing 1560 1613 written by Jonathan P.A. Sell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613, shows how rhetorical invention, elocution and ethos combined to create plausible representations by generating intellectual and emotional significances which, meaningful in consensual terms, were 'consensually' true. However, some traveller-writers betrayed an unease with such representation, rooted as it was in a metaphorical epistemology out of kilter with an increasingly empiricist age. This book throws new light onto the episteme shift that ushered in modernity with its distrust of metaphor in particular and rhetoric's 'wordish descriptions' in general. In response to the empirical desiderata of scientific rationalism, traveller-writers textually or physically made their own bodies available as evidence of their encounters with wonder, thus transforming themselves into wonderful objects. The irony is that, far from dispensing with rhetoric, they merely put the accent on its more dramatic arts of gesture and action. The body's evidence could still be doctored, but its illusory truths were better able to satisfy the empirical demand for 'ocular proof'. The author's main purposes here are to complement, and sometimes counter, recent work on early modern travel literature by concentrating on its use of rhetoric to communicate meaning; and to suggest how familiarity with the workings of rhetoric and its communicative and epistemological premises may enhance readings of early modern English literature generally.
Download or read book The Reluctant Traveler How to Explore the World Without Learning Anything about Yourself Or Other Cultures written by Dan Fazio and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You know the type of book. Some insufferable backpacker leaves behind his perfectly good life in the U.S. for a hot, disease-infested hellhole to eat grub worms, catch giardia and build mud huts with the locals - then has the nerve to claim the experience was enlightening! This is not that type of book. This is travel from a whole new perspective - that of the worst traveler in the world, Dan Fazio. He hasn't written another "Eat, Pray, Love" - it's actually more like "Panic, Sweat, Curse." Fazio's idea of international travel involves relaxing in a Mediterranean villa and stuffing himself with various cured meats. Unfortunately, his wife was drawn to the whole grub worms and giardia thing, and she managed to drag him along on a grueling 10-month death march through Europe, Southeast Asia, South America and Mexico. Shattering romantic travel illusions about swimming in waterfalls or picking olives on a pastoral Tuscan ranch, Fazio reads a bit like Chuck Klosterman if he were being carted around the globe in Bill Bryson's backpack - and reveals that the average traveler spends most of his time puking, being puked on, about to die in a fiery bus crash - or all of the above simultaneously.
Download or read book The Reluctant Traveler written by Linda M. Robbins and published by . This book was released on 2002-12-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling concept of Past-Life Regression, transports anxiety- ridden, Maggie Caldwell from 1996 to 1850 Cambridge, when she resolves a misremembered experience during her lifetime as Mabel, the sensuous daughter of American poet-statesman, James Russell Lowell; in The Reluctant Travelerc.
Download or read book Still Open All Hours written by Graham McCann and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its first episode in 1973, Open All Hours was an instant hit. Audiences around Britain loved its familiar setting, good natured humour, and the hilarious partnership of Ronnie Barker and David Jason. Whilst it only ran for 26 episodes, it firmly cemented itself as a British comedy classic. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the show in 2014, the BBC revived it for a one-off Christmas Special. Still Open All Hours was swamped by a tsunami of audience affection and the BBC promptly commissioned a full series. The first episode of the fifth series is expected to air in late 2014. With recollections from David Jason, his fellow cast members, and from the scriptwriter Roy Clarke, plus never before seen BBC archive material, acclaimed popular TV historian Graham McCann tells the inside story of this very British sitcom, with wit, insight and affection.
Download or read book The Bible in Africa written by Gerald West and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the arrival of the Bible in Africa has often been a tale of terror, the Bible has become an African book. This volume explores the many ways in which Africans have made the Bible their own. The essays in this book offer a glimpse of the rich resources that constitute Africa's engagement with the Bible. Among the topics are: the historical development of biblical interpretation in Africa, the relationship between African biblical scholarship and scholarship in the West, African resources for reading the Bible, the history and role of vernacular translation in particular African contexts, the ambiguity of the Bible in Africa, the power of the Bible as text and symbol, and the intersections between class, race, gender, and culture in African biblical interpretation. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of African biblical scholarship. In fact, it is one of the most comprehensive collections of African biblical scholarship available in print. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Download or read book The Accidental Time Traveller written by Janis Mackay and published by Floris Books. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Scottish Children's Book Award 2013 Younger Readers (8-11 years) category. I'm not mad, ok? I know this sounds off the wall, but I was just walking to the corner shop and this girl almost got hit by a car. She grabbed hold of me and told me her name's Agatha Black and she's here from the past. At first I thought she was nuts but maybe it's true. She doesn't get traffic, she's freaked out by photos and she's terrified of TV. And she knows about the past -- body snatchers, making fires, and pet monkeys. Her dad does a bit of time travel. But obviously, he's not very good at it. I mean, he got her lost. Now it's me that has to get her back ? to 1812!
Download or read book A Reluctant Traveller in Russia written by Tadeusz Wittlin and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Accidental Tourist written by Anne Tyler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author—an irresistible novel exploring the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, and the struggle to rebuild one’s life after unspeakable tragedy Travel writer Macon Leary hates travel, adventure, surprises, and anything outside of his routine. Immobilized by grief, Macon is becoming increasingly prickly and alone, anchored by his solitude and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Then he meets Muriel, an eccentric dog trainer too optimistic to let Macon disappear into himself. Despite Macon’s best efforts to remain insulated, Muriel up-ends his solitary, systemized life, catapulting him into the center of a messy, beautiful love story he never imagined. A fresh and timeless tale of unexpected bliss, The Accidental Tourist showcases Tyler’s talents for making characters—and their relationships—feel both real and magical. “Incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating…One cannot reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this.” —The Washington Post
Download or read book Flattie written by Jean Stirling and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you enjoy the fair when it came to your town or village? Did you ever wonder about the show people... the families who travelled countrywide, and perhaps even envy them?
