Author: Larzer Ziff
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300082364
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Ziff (English, Johns Hopkins) traces the history of American travel writing from the end of the Revolution to the outbreak of WWI. The author commences with two men who traveled first and later wrote about it. John Ledyard (1752-1789) became arguably the first professional and copyrighted author in the US with his memoirs of travels with Captain Cook, and John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) discovered hundreds of ruins in the Yucatan and Central America. Ziff continues with two writers who traveled to gather material: Bayard Taylor (1852-1878) journeyed not only far and wide but also diversified his means of travel (dhows, reindeer sleighs, banghy carts, warships) to invigorate his narratives; and Mark Twain (1835- 1910), who when he wrote Innocents Abroad (1869), was a roving correspondent skewering sentimental travel books, tourists, and European monuments. Henry James (1843-1916), a logical and temporal conclusion to this American travel pantheon, seemed equal parts writer and traveler. Through these five, an array of styles and attitudes emerge, united primarily by a contemplation of an increasingly problematic American identity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
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Author: Larzer Ziff
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300082364
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Ziff (English, Johns Hopkins) traces the history of American travel writing from the end of the Revolution to the outbreak of WWI. The author commences with two men who traveled first and later wrote about it. John Ledyard (1752-1789) became arguably the first professional and copyrighted author in the US with his memoirs of travels with Captain Cook, and John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) discovered hundreds of ruins in the Yucatan and Central America. Ziff continues with two writers who traveled to gather material: Bayard Taylor (1852-1878) journeyed not only far and wide but also diversified his means of travel (dhows, reindeer sleighs, banghy carts, warships) to invigorate his narratives; and Mark Twain (1835- 1910), who when he wrote Innocents Abroad (1869), was a roving correspondent skewering sentimental travel books, tourists, and European monuments. Henry James (1843-1916), a logical and temporal conclusion to this American travel pantheon, seemed equal parts writer and traveler. Through these five, an array of styles and attitudes emerge, united primarily by a contemplation of an increasingly problematic American identity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300082364
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Ziff (English, Johns Hopkins) traces the history of American travel writing from the end of the Revolution to the outbreak of WWI. The author commences with two men who traveled first and later wrote about it. John Ledyard (1752-1789) became arguably the first professional and copyrighted author in the US with his memoirs of travels with Captain Cook, and John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) discovered hundreds of ruins in the Yucatan and Central America. Ziff continues with two writers who traveled to gather material: Bayard Taylor (1852-1878) journeyed not only far and wide but also diversified his means of travel (dhows, reindeer sleighs, banghy carts, warships) to invigorate his narratives; and Mark Twain (1835- 1910), who when he wrote Innocents Abroad (1869), was a roving correspondent skewering sentimental travel books, tourists, and European monuments. Henry James (1843-1916), a logical and temporal conclusion to this American travel pantheon, seemed equal parts writer and traveler. Through these five, an array of styles and attitudes emerge, united primarily by a contemplation of an increasingly problematic American identity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
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Author: Robert D. Hales
Publisher: Deseret Book
ISBN: 9781570087691
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Church leader and business executive Robert Hales discusses the four stages of life's journey--preparation, decision, serving, and enduring--and considers how each stage prepares us for eternal life.
Publisher: Deseret Book
ISBN: 9781570087691
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Church leader and business executive Robert Hales discusses the four stages of life's journey--preparation, decision, serving, and enduring--and considers how each stage prepares us for eternal life.
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: United States. Patent and Trademark Office
Publisher:
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1396
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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Author: United States. Patent Office
Publisher:
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1834
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Publisher:
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1834
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Statutory Rules and Orders Other Than Those of a Local, Personal Or Temporary Character
Author: Great Britain
Publisher:
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 2076
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 2076
Book Description
Accounts and papers
Author: Great Britain House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
The Return
Author: Rachel Harrison
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593641671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut. Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return—except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She’s right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she’s been or what happened to her. Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at a remote inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong—she’s emaciated, with sallow skin and odd appetites. And as the weekend unfurls, it becomes impossible to deny that the Julie who vanished two years ago is not the same Julie who came back. But then who—or what—is she?
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593641671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut. Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return—except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She’s right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she’s been or what happened to her. Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at a remote inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong—she’s emaciated, with sallow skin and odd appetites. And as the weekend unfurls, it becomes impossible to deny that the Julie who vanished two years ago is not the same Julie who came back. But then who—or what—is she?
The Handbook of Jamaica for ...
Author:
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Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Publisher:
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Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Author: United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Includes the Committee's Technical reports no. 1-1058, reprinted in v. 1-37.
Publisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Includes the Committee's Technical reports no. 1-1058, reprinted in v. 1-37.
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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