Author: Tim Leffel
Publisher: Booklocker.com
ISBN: 9781634911696
Category : Travel writing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The keys to real success in travel writing and blogging.
TRAVEL WRITING 2.0
Author: Tim Leffel
Publisher: Booklocker.com
ISBN: 9781634911696
Category : Travel writing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The keys to real success in travel writing and blogging.
Publisher: Booklocker.com
ISBN: 9781634911696
Category : Travel writing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The keys to real success in travel writing and blogging.
Other Routes
Author: Tabish Khair
Publisher: Signal Books
ISBN: 9781904955115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The collection includes pilgrimage accounts, which describe a 'national' circuit (as in Lady Nijo's, c. 1280, or Sei Shonagon's, c. 990, accounts) or move across vast regions to places of learning and pilgrimage or to a particular centre of religio-cultural significance (the early Chinese travellers to India in the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries, the Hajj pilgrimage of Ibn Jubayr in the 12th century, Blyden's Africanist-Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the 19th century). These pilgrimage accounts can also taper into other genres: for instance, while ibn Battutah (b. 1304) set out to go to Mecca (which he did), he ended up travelling across 50 countries and dictating what is undoubtedly a travel book in a narrow generic sense rather than the account of a pilgrimage. Other extracts range from the influential medieval travel-geography of al-Idrisi in the 11th century; the global history,
Publisher: Signal Books
ISBN: 9781904955115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The collection includes pilgrimage accounts, which describe a 'national' circuit (as in Lady Nijo's, c. 1280, or Sei Shonagon's, c. 990, accounts) or move across vast regions to places of learning and pilgrimage or to a particular centre of religio-cultural significance (the early Chinese travellers to India in the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries, the Hajj pilgrimage of Ibn Jubayr in the 12th century, Blyden's Africanist-Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the 19th century). These pilgrimage accounts can also taper into other genres: for instance, while ibn Battutah (b. 1304) set out to go to Mecca (which he did), he ended up travelling across 50 countries and dictating what is undoubtedly a travel book in a narrow generic sense rather than the account of a pilgrimage. Other extracts range from the influential medieval travel-geography of al-Idrisi in the 11th century; the global history,
The Best American Travel Writing 2021
Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0358361311
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A collection of the year's best travel writing selected by Padma Lakshmi
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0358361311
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A collection of the year's best travel writing selected by Padma Lakshmi
French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years
Author: Martyn Cornick
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135108781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It sheds new light on the phenomenon of French political travel in this period by considering the well-documented appeal of Soviet communism for French intellectuals alongside their interest in other radical regimes which have been much less studied: fascist Italy, the Iberian dictatorships and Nazi Germany. Through analyses of the travel writing produced as a result of such visits, the book gauges the appeal of these forms of authoritarianism for inter-war French intellectuals from a broad political spectrum. It examines not only those whose political sympathies with the extreme right or extreme left were already publicly known, but also non-aligned intellectuals who were interested in political models that offered an apparently radical alternative to the French Third Republic. This study shows how travel writing provided a space for reflection on the lessons France might learn from the radical political experiments of the inter-war years. It argues that such writing can usefully be read as a form of utopian thinking, distinguishing this from colloquial understandings of utopia as an ideal location. Utopianism is understood neither as a fantasy ungrounded in the real nor as a dangerously totalitarian ideal, but, in line with Karl Mannheim, Paul Ricœur, and Ruth Levitas, as a form of non-congruence with the real that it seeks to transcend. The utopianism of French political travel writing is seen to lie not in the attempt to portray the destination visited as utopia, but rather in the pursuit of a dialogue with radical political alterity.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135108781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It sheds new light on the phenomenon of French political travel in this period by considering the well-documented appeal of Soviet communism for French intellectuals alongside their interest in other radical regimes which have been much less studied: fascist Italy, the Iberian dictatorships and Nazi Germany. Through analyses of the travel writing produced as a result of such visits, the book gauges the appeal of these forms of authoritarianism for inter-war French intellectuals from a broad political spectrum. It examines not only those whose political sympathies with the extreme right or extreme left were already publicly known, but also non-aligned intellectuals who were interested in political models that offered an apparently radical alternative to the French Third Republic. This study shows how travel writing provided a space for reflection on the lessons France might learn from the radical political experiments of the inter-war years. It argues that such writing can usefully be read as a form of utopian thinking, distinguishing this from colloquial understandings of utopia as an ideal location. Utopianism is understood neither as a fantasy ungrounded in the real nor as a dangerously totalitarian ideal, but, in line with Karl Mannheim, Paul Ricœur, and Ruth Levitas, as a form of non-congruence with the real that it seeks to transcend. The utopianism of French political travel writing is seen to lie not in the attempt to portray the destination visited as utopia, but rather in the pursuit of a dialogue with radical political alterity.
The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 11
Author: Lavinia Spalding
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1609521129
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Since publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized national leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the tenth in that series—The Best Women’s Travel Writing—presenting stimulating, inspiring, and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. The common threads connecting these stories are a female perspective and fresh, compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn’t. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes are as eclectic as in all of our books, including stories that encompass spiritual growth, hilarity and misadventure, high adventure, romance, solo journeys, stories of service to humanity, family travel, and encounters with exotic cuisine.
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1609521129
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Since publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized national leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the tenth in that series—The Best Women’s Travel Writing—presenting stimulating, inspiring, and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. The common threads connecting these stories are a female perspective and fresh, compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn’t. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes are as eclectic as in all of our books, including stories that encompass spiritual growth, hilarity and misadventure, high adventure, romance, solo journeys, stories of service to humanity, family travel, and encounters with exotic cuisine.
A Cairo Anthology
Author: Deborah Manley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9774166124
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Cairo (Egypt); description and travel.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9774166124
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Cairo (Egypt); description and travel.
The Travel Writing Tribe
Author: Tim Hannigan
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 1787386791
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary practitioners and confronting its greatest controversies. Is it ever okay for travel writers to make things up, and just where does the frontier between fact and fiction lie? What actually is travel writing, and is it just a genre dominated by posh white men? What of travel writing’s queasy colonial connections? Travelling from Monaco to Eton, from wintry Scotland to sun-scorched Greek hillsides, Hannigan swills beer with the indomitable Dervla Murphy, sips tea with the doyen of British explorers, delves into the diaries of Wilfred Thesiger and Patrick Leigh Fermor, and gains unexpected insights from Colin Thubron, Samanth Subramanian, Kapka Kassabova, William Dalrymple and many others. But along the way he realises how much is at stake: can his own love of travel writing survive this journey? The Travel Writing Tribe tackles head on the fierce critical debates usually confined to strictly academic discussions of the genre. This highly original book compels readers and travellers of all kinds to think about travel writing in new ways.
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 1787386791
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary practitioners and confronting its greatest controversies. Is it ever okay for travel writers to make things up, and just where does the frontier between fact and fiction lie? What actually is travel writing, and is it just a genre dominated by posh white men? What of travel writing’s queasy colonial connections? Travelling from Monaco to Eton, from wintry Scotland to sun-scorched Greek hillsides, Hannigan swills beer with the indomitable Dervla Murphy, sips tea with the doyen of British explorers, delves into the diaries of Wilfred Thesiger and Patrick Leigh Fermor, and gains unexpected insights from Colin Thubron, Samanth Subramanian, Kapka Kassabova, William Dalrymple and many others. But along the way he realises how much is at stake: can his own love of travel writing survive this journey? The Travel Writing Tribe tackles head on the fierce critical debates usually confined to strictly academic discussions of the genre. This highly original book compels readers and travellers of all kinds to think about travel writing in new ways.
The Best American Travel Writing 2011
Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547333366
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the past year, selected from American magazines and newspapers.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547333366
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the past year, selected from American magazines and newspapers.
The Best American Travel Writing 2012
Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547808976
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A collection of the best travel writing pieces published in American periodicals during 2011.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547808976
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A collection of the best travel writing pieces published in American periodicals during 2011.
The Road to Oxiana
Author: Robert Byron
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195030679
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana--the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Road to Oxiana offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures, but also a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travelers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195030679
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana--the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Road to Oxiana offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures, but also a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travelers.