Download or read book Travel Absurdities written by Penelope A. Riley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel absurdities, a gathering of stories that have been etched in my memories for years. These incidents were not necessarily funny when they occured but can't help but laugh as I look back in fondness. Vacations, holidays, family reunions, summer outings are supposed to afford us with time to relax and renew our bodies from the normal daily grind of life but oftentimes become mishap ridden as we try to avoid the stress that made us take the trip in the first place. A vicious circle, but just ask me if I want to go somewhere, my answer is always yes! I never completely unpack my carryon. My luggage sits next to my bed beckoning me to take it out the door. This world is so vast and I have such memorable stories to tell, some absured, some humorous and others just one mishap after another. The stories people listen to, sometimes in disbelief.
Download or read book Duckie Dan the Traveling Man written by Penelope A Riley and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Duckie Dan, a cute furry little duck, who has a desire to travel and have lots of friends. Dan is mischievous and sometimes his curiosity gets him into trouble on his journeys. An unscheduled trip inside a candy factory leaves him a little gooey. Dan is an only-child and seeks out others to join him and enjoy his life with granny. Grandma Hattie made the mistake of saying, There is always room for one more!
Download or read book Lyrical and Critical Essays written by Albert Camus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Philip Thody, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy. "Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter."--The New York Times Book Review "...a new single work for American readers that stands among the very finest."--The Nation
Download or read book Bad Tourist written by Suzanne Roberts and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner 2021 National Indie Excellent Awards Finalist 2020 Bronze Award for Travel Book or Guide from the North American Travel Journalists Association 2020 Bronze Winner for Travel in the Foreword INDIES Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself. Throughout her travels Roberts tries hard not to be a bad tourist, but owing to her cultural blind spots, things don’t always go as planned. Fearlessly confessional, shamelessly funny, and wholly unapologetic, Roberts offers a refreshingly honest account of the joys and absurdities of confronting new landscapes and cultures, as well as new versions of herself. Raw, bawdy, and self-effacing, Bad Tourist is a journey packed with delights and surprises—both of the greater world and of the mysterious workings of the heart.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing written by Alfred Bendixen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. Occupying the space between fact and fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals the changing desires and anxieties of both the traveller and the reading public. These specially-commissioned essays trace the journeys taken by writers from the pre-revolutionary period right up to the present. They examine a wide range of responses to the problems posed by landscapes found both at home and abroad, from the Mississippi and the Southwest to Europe and the Holy Land. Throughout, the contributors focus on the role played by travel writing in the definition and formulation of national identity, and consider the experiences of minority writers as well as canonical authors. This Companion forms an invaluable guide for students approaching this new, important and exciting subject for the first time.
Download or read book The Omamba Absurdity written by T. Corbin and published by noo yawk lady. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizens of the most prosperous nation in the world, having fallen on hard times, elect an anti-business president who together with a self-indulgent congress has bankrupt the country. The Omamba Absurdity examines how this situation created an opening for an archenemy to hijack the nationâ s leadership.
Download or read book Much Ado About Loving written by Jack Murnighan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares relationship advice borrowed from famous literary characters from Dido to Jane Eyre, revealing what their classical foibles, misadventures, and eventual triumphs can teach modern victims of the dating scene.
Download or read book Foot prints of Travel written by Maturin Murray Ballou and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Footprints of Travel" by Maturin Murray Ballou is an enthralling anthology that chronicles the author's globetrotting adventures with a keen eye for detail and an insatiable thirst for exploration. Ballou, an experienced travel writer, invites readers on a vicarious journey through diverse landscapes, cultures, and historical landmarks. This compilation captures the essence of travel, blending vivid descriptions with personal reflections on the people encountered and the wonders discovered. From the bustling markets of exotic cities to the serenity of remote landscapes, Ballou's narrative unfolds as a rich tapestry of human experiences and the beauty of the natural world. "Footprints of Travel" is a treasure trove for armchair travelers and adventurers alike, offering glimpses into the author's encounters with the unfamiliar and the extraordinary. Ballou's writing not only serves as a practical guide for fellow travelers but also as an inspiring testament to the transformative power of exploration. Immerse yourself in the footprints left by Maturin Murray Ballou as he traverses the globe, leaving behind a legacy of travel narratives that continue to resonate with those who seek the thrill of discovery and the magic of diverse cultures.
Download or read book The Philosophy of Mind Travel written by Psychotic Logician and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychotic logician takes the reader on a journey through his mind. As ones own personal guide in existence, we explore and travel the world in search for a higher understanding of the universe and ones place in it. Whether this book accomplishes this purpose or not may be left open for debate, as well as a complete all-encompassing understanding of the meaning of the world.
Download or read book The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Hold a Wolf by the Ears written by Laura van den Berg and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF TIME'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2020. Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, the New York Public Library, Library Journal, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, and Tor.com "As enchanting as fairy tales, as mysterious as dreams, these exquisitely composed fictions are as urgent and original as any being written today.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, Laura van den Berg’s first story collection since her prizewinning book The Isle of Youth, draws readers into a world of wholly original, sideways ghost stories that linger in the mouth and the mind. Both timeless and urgent, these eleven stories confront misogyny, violence, and the impossible economics of America with van den Berg’s trademark spiky humor and surreal eye. Moving from the peculiarities of Florida to liminal spaces of travel in Mexico City, Sicily, and Iceland, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears is uncannily attuned to our current moment, and to the fears we reveal to no one but ourselves. In “Lizards,” a man mutes his wife’s anxieties by giving her a LaCroix-like seltzer laced with sedatives. In the title story, a woman poses as her more successful sister during a botched Italian holiday, a choice that brings about strange and destructive consequences, while in “Karolina,” a woman discovers her prickly ex-sister-in-law in the aftermath of an earthquake and is forced to face the truth about her violent brother. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears presents a collection of women on the verge, trying to grasp what’s left of life: grieving, divorced, and hyperaware, searching, vulnerable, and unhinged, they exist in a world that deviates from our own only when you look too closely. With remarkable control and transcendent talent, van den Berg dissolves, in the words of the narrator of “Slumberland,” “that border between magic and annihilation,” and further establishes herself as a defining fiction writer of our time.
Download or read book Travel Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Londoners An Absurdity written by Robert Hichens and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Travel and adventure written by Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travel Modernism and Modernity written by Robert Burden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how travel enabled a new consciousness of mobility and borders during the modernist period. For these authors, Burden suggests, travel becomes a narrative paradigm and dominant trope by which they explore questions of identity and otherness related to deep-seated concerns with the crisis of national cultural identity. He pays particular attention to the important distinction between travel and tourism, at the same time that he attends to the slippage between seeing and sightseeing, between the local character and the stereotype, between art and kitsch, and between older and newer ways of storytelling in the representational crisis of modernism. Burden argues that the greater awareness of cultural difference that characterizes both the travel writing and fiction of these expatriate writers became a defining feature of literary modernism, resulting in a consciousness of cultural difference that challenged the ethnographic project of empire.
Download or read book Sweetness and Light written by Liam Pieper and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India, monsoon season. Connor, an Australian expat with a brutal past, spends his time running low-stakes scams on tourists in a sleepy beachside town. Sasha, an American in search of spiritual guidance, heads to an isolated ashram in the hope of mending a broken heart. When one of Connor’s grifts goes horribly wrong, it sets in motion a chain of events that brings the two lost souls together – and as they try to navigate a world of gangsters, gurus and secret agendas, they begin to realise that within the ashram’s utopian community, something is deeply, deeply wrong . . . Racing from the beaches of Goa to the streets of Delhi to the jungles of Tamil Nadu, Sweetness and Light is an intoxicating, unsettling story of the battle between light and dark, love and lust, morality and corruption. This is an explosive and unforgettable novel that confirms Liam Pieper's place as one of Australia's finest, sharpest writers.
