Author: Frederick J. Falding
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Notes of a Journey Round the World
Author: Frederick J. Falding
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Notes on My Journey Round the World
Author: Evelyn Cecil
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Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Field Notes from a Pandemic
Author: Ethan Lou
Publisher: Signal
ISBN: 0771029977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of 2020 In a book equal parts travelogue and pandemic guide, the journalist Ethan Lou examines the societal effects of COVID-19 and takes us on a mesmerizing journey around a world that will never be the same. Visiting Beijing in January 2020 to see his dying grandfather, the Canadian journalist Ethan Lou unknowingly walks into a state under siege. In his journey out of China and—unwittingly—into other hot zones in Asia and Europe, he finds himself witnessing the very earliest stages of a virus that will forever change the world as we know it. Lou argues that the coronavirus outbreak will have a far greater impact than SARS, for example, simply because China is now many more times integrated with the increasingly interconnected world. Over decades, globalization has crafted a world painfully sensitive and susceptible to shocks such as this pandemic. A crisis like it has thus been long overdue—and we have yet to see it unfold fully. In our integrated world, events that may previously be isolated now ripple farther and wider and in ways we do not expect and cannot foresee. We have not seen the worst, and if and when we outlast this pandemic, nothing will ever be the same. Decisions now—or indecisions—will shape and define the world for decades. These ideas are fleshed out through the virus's spawning and how it spread, the unprecedented measures to contain it and an examination of past pandemics and other crises and how they shaped the world--and an argument for why this one's different. Lou shows how drastically the virus has transformed the world and charts the greater and more radical shifts to come. His ideas and arguments are framed around his unintentionally tumultuous journey around the world, whose path the virus seemed to follow until he landed safely in quarantine in a small town in Germany, where he was able to take stock and start telling his story.
Publisher: Signal
ISBN: 0771029977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of 2020 In a book equal parts travelogue and pandemic guide, the journalist Ethan Lou examines the societal effects of COVID-19 and takes us on a mesmerizing journey around a world that will never be the same. Visiting Beijing in January 2020 to see his dying grandfather, the Canadian journalist Ethan Lou unknowingly walks into a state under siege. In his journey out of China and—unwittingly—into other hot zones in Asia and Europe, he finds himself witnessing the very earliest stages of a virus that will forever change the world as we know it. Lou argues that the coronavirus outbreak will have a far greater impact than SARS, for example, simply because China is now many more times integrated with the increasingly interconnected world. Over decades, globalization has crafted a world painfully sensitive and susceptible to shocks such as this pandemic. A crisis like it has thus been long overdue—and we have yet to see it unfold fully. In our integrated world, events that may previously be isolated now ripple farther and wider and in ways we do not expect and cannot foresee. We have not seen the worst, and if and when we outlast this pandemic, nothing will ever be the same. Decisions now—or indecisions—will shape and define the world for decades. These ideas are fleshed out through the virus's spawning and how it spread, the unprecedented measures to contain it and an examination of past pandemics and other crises and how they shaped the world--and an argument for why this one's different. Lou shows how drastically the virus has transformed the world and charts the greater and more radical shifts to come. His ideas and arguments are framed around his unintentionally tumultuous journey around the world, whose path the virus seemed to follow until he landed safely in quarantine in a small town in Germany, where he was able to take stock and start telling his story.
Round the World
Author: Andrew Carnegie
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Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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A Journey Round My Skull
Author: Frigyes Karinthy
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590172582
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The distinguished Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest café, wondering whether to write a long-planned monograph on modern man or a new play, when he was disturbed by the roaring—so loud as to drown out all other noises—of a passing train. Soon it was gone, only to be succeeded by another. And another. Strange, Karinthy thought, it had been years since Budapest had streetcars. Only then did he realize he was suffering from an auditory hallucination of extraordinary intensity. What in fact Karinthy was suffering from was a brain tumor, not cancerous but hardly benign, though it was only much later—after spells of giddiness, fainting fits, friends remarking that his handwriting had altered, and books going blank before his eyes—that he consulted a doctor and embarked on a series of examinations that would lead to brain surgery. Karinthy’s description of his descent into illness and his observations of his symptoms, thoughts, and feelings, as well as of his friends’ and doctors’ varied responses to his predicament, are exact and engrossing and entirely free of self-pity. A Journey Round My Skull is not only an extraordinary piece of medical testimony, but a powerful work of literature—one that dances brilliantly on the edge of extinction.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590172582
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The distinguished Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest café, wondering whether to write a long-planned monograph on modern man or a new play, when he was disturbed by the roaring—so loud as to drown out all other noises—of a passing train. Soon it was gone, only to be succeeded by another. And another. Strange, Karinthy thought, it had been years since Budapest had streetcars. Only then did he realize he was suffering from an auditory hallucination of extraordinary intensity. What in fact Karinthy was suffering from was a brain tumor, not cancerous but hardly benign, though it was only much later—after spells of giddiness, fainting fits, friends remarking that his handwriting had altered, and books going blank before his eyes—that he consulted a doctor and embarked on a series of examinations that would lead to brain surgery. Karinthy’s description of his descent into illness and his observations of his symptoms, thoughts, and feelings, as well as of his friends’ and doctors’ varied responses to his predicament, are exact and engrossing and entirely free of self-pity. A Journey Round My Skull is not only an extraordinary piece of medical testimony, but a powerful work of literature—one that dances brilliantly on the edge of extinction.
A Journey round the Library of a Bibliomaniac: or, Cento of notes and reminiscences concerning rare, curious, and valuable books
Author: William DAVIS (Bibliographical Writer.)
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Journal
Author: Manchester Geographical Society
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Catalogue of the Newton Free Library of Newton, Massachusetts, 1892
Author: Newton Free Library
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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General Catalogue
Author: Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Notes on books
Author: Longmans, Green and co
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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