Download or read book Travelling in Different Skins written by Dúnlaith Bird and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dúnlaith Bird argues that vagabondage - a physical and textual elaboration of gender identity in motion - emerges as a totemic concept in European women's travel writing from 1850. For travellers including Olympe Audouard, Isabella Bird, Isabelle Eberhardt, and Freya Stark,vagabondage is a means of pushing out the physical, geographical, and textual parameters by which 'women' are defined. Travelling in Different Skins explores the negotiations of European women travel writers from 1850-1950 within the traditionally male-oriented discourses of colonialism and Orientalism. Moving from historical overview to close textual reading, it traces a complex web of tacit collusion and gleeful defiance. These women improvise access to the highly gendered 'imaginative geography' of the Orient. Tactics including cross-dressing, commerciality, and the effacement of their male companions are used to carve out a space for their unconventional and often sexually-hybrid constructions. Using a composite theoretical basis of the later critical work of Judith Butler and Edward Said, this comparative study of British and French colonial empires and gender norms draws out the nuances in these travellers' constructions of gender identity. Women travel writers are shown to play an important role in the legacy of sexual experimentation and self-creation in the Orient, traditionally associated with male writers including Gide and Pierre Loti, and now ripe for critical re-evaluation. This study demonstrates how these women use lived experiences of restriction and negotiation to elaborate advanced theories of motion and gender construction, presaging the concerns of twenty-first century feminism and post-colonialism.
Download or read book The Lost Continent written by Bill Bryson and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
Download or read book The Great Lone Land a Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North West of America by Capt W F Butler written by William Francis Thomas Butler and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Lone Land a Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North West of America With Illustrations and Route Map Second Edition written by Sir William Francis Butler and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travellers Health written by Richard Dawood and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travellers' Health offers practical advice on preventing and coping with every health problem imaginable. Authoritatively written by over 70 experts, this book is essential reading for all travellers worldwide.
Download or read book Silver Skin written by Joan Lennon and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skara Brae, Orkney, during the Neolithic period. The sun is dying, crops are failing and the local inhabitants fear that the end of the world is near. When a strange boy appears from nowhere, dressed in an odd silver suit - his 'silver skin' - the community is thrown into confusion. Who is he, where is he from, and why has he come? Is he a selkie or seal person, a mythical being believed to have magical powers? For Cait, herself an outsider in the community, the boy, Rab, arouses a strange fascination as she finds herself strangely drawn towards him. For Voy, the Old Woman, Rab represents the only hope for the sun's regeneration, but only if his silver skin is burnt in a huge sacrificial blaze. As the pyre is built, Rab must fight for his life if he is ever to be able to return to his own time. And if he succeeds, what will be the fate of the islanders he will leave behind?
Download or read book Travel Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Travels in Southern Africa in the Years 1803 1804 1805 and 1806 written by Hinrich Lichtenstein and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book McQs in Travel and Tropical Medicine written by Dom Colbert and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition is expanded, revised and largely re-written. However the aim remains the same and it is hoped that anyone involved in Travel or Tropical Medicine will find the contents interesting, stimulating and helpful. As before it is divided into easy-to-read sections with clear answers that sometimes encapsulate whole diseases. The four-part question format is retained in order to aid those intending to take Certificate or other exams in Travel Medicine. The correct answer to each question is that which is generally accepted as the best one. Nonetheless the reader may quibble with some answers and the author is always happy to accept sound advice and change accordingly. Travel Medicine has a broad canvas. It cuts across the boundaries of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Tropical Medicine, Geographical Medicine, Aviation and Refugee Medicine. Because of this the few Textbooks we have Travel Medicine are large and difficult to digest. This little book attempts to set down in concise form the essential elements of Travel Medicine in a way that is easy to read yet challenging. These pages certainly invite the reader to share in excitement and wonder of this fascinating subject.
Download or read book Travels in Asia from modern writers with remarks and observations etc written by Rev. William BINGLEY and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The English Visitors Guide to Paris and the Exhibition with Full Information as to Routes of Travel in Addition to a Classified List of Exhibitors written by Paris. [Appendix. - Topography.] and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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