Download or read book The Book of Marvels and Travels written by Sir John Mandeville and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. A captivating blend of fact and fantasy, Mandeville's Book is newly translated in an edition that brings us closer to Mandeville's worldview.
Download or read book Travellers Tales written by Henry Cadwallader Adams and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Travellers Tales written by Henry Cadwallader Adams and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Travelers Tales Greece written by Larry Habegger and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2003 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "True stories by Paul Theroux, Caroline Alexander, Lawrence Durrell, Patricia Storace, Robert D. Kaplan, Henry Miller, and many more"--Cover.
Download or read book The New Granta Book of Travel written by Albino Ochero-Okello and published by Granta Publications. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of travel writing by some of the genre’s finest authors, from Paul Theroux to Sara Wheeler, voyaging from Mississippi to Malawi and Thailand. The New Granta Book of Travel Writing represents a sea change in writers’ approaches to the craft. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and James Fenton set out to document life in largely unfamiliar territory, bringing back tales of the beautiful, the extraordinary and the unexpected. By the mid 1990s, travel writing seemed to change, as a younger generation of writers appeared in the magazine, making journeys for more complex and often personal reasons. Decca Aitkenhead reported on sex tourism in Thailand, and Wendell Steavenson moved to Iraq as a foreign correspondent. What all these pieces have in common is a sense of engagement with the places they describe, and a belief that whether we are in Birmingham or Belarus, there is always something new to be discovered.
Download or read book Elf by Jeanie Hering written by Marion Jean C. Adams- Acton and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Travel Stories written by Patricia Craig and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel, associated as it is with strangeness, marvels, and excitement, has always proved an irresistible subject for writers. The Oxford Book of Travel Stories brings together some of the best short fiction on this most exhilarating of subjects from writers as diverse as Anthony Trollope,Edith Wharton, Ring Lardner, William Trevor, Sylvia Townsend Warner, John Cheever, Beryl Bainbridge and V.S. Pritchett. Readers of this anthology will be able to revel in the atmosphere of 19th-century Palestine, the Riviera of the 1920s, or a cruise down the Nile. There are stories set in far distant locations - China, Australia - and others closer to home, such as Benedict Kiely's entrancing 'A Journey to theSeven Streams'. Most are high-spirited, in keeping with the theme, some are wonderfully funny and one or two productively unsettling, such as Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'. Some deal with the journey itself, and encounters on train or boat; others see travel as a literal rite ofpassage, an escape or a sudden growing-up. All of them illustrate, in various ways, how travel has to do with stimulus, enrichment and a sense of achievement - 'Not fare well,' as T.S. Elliot has it, 'But fare forward, voyagers'.
Download or read book The American Mercury written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traveler S Tale Third Book written by Roger Fiola and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelers Tale is an adventure series. A contemporary man, Jack Castro, feels that something is missing from his successful business and family life as he enters middle age. Although living on the idyllic central coast of California should be enough, he senses something more awaiting him. Several triggering events spur him suddenly and deeply into the first-century Levant, where a mysterious and beautiful guide leads him into direct encounters with the holiest and the unholiest of biblical characters. In the face of these experiences, or what he believes are true experiences, Jack discovers the traveler that he is. This catalyzes profound changes in himchanges that cannot be reversed or even stopped. Th rough them, he understands the revelation of God to him and how he is a manifestation of that revelation. He becomes the hollow instrument through which God plays His music into the world. In this this third book, Traveler walks the road to Calvary with Yeshua, the man later called Jesus. Through his participation with the disciples in the profound and horrific events of the Passion, he finds God permits him to enter the very mind of Christ. Travelers Tale is a readable spiritual series using a page-turning narrative to inspire the Divine mystical experience possible for every man and woman.
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Download or read book Two Arabic Travel Books written by Tim Mackintosh-Smith and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its ports, we find a priceless cargo of information; here are the first foreign descriptions of tea and porcelain, a panorama of unusual social practices, cannibal islands, and Indian holy men--a marvelous, mundane world, contained in the compass of a novella. In Mission to the Volga, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. This colorful documentary by Ibn Fadlan relates the trials and tribulations of an embassy of diplomats and missionaries sent by caliph al-Muqtadir to deliver political and religious instruction to the recently-converted King of the Bulghars. During eleven months of grueling travel, Ibn Fadlan records the marvels he witnesses on his journey, including an aurora borealis and the white nights of the North. Crucially, he offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs, clothing, tattoos, and a striking account of a ship funeral.
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Download or read book The A to Z of Fantasy Literature written by Brian Stableford and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.
