This collection of essays explores wonder in the context of early modern travel and travel writing, offering multifaceted and novel interpretations of the problematic relationship between a traveller and their unfamiliar environment through various...Loe edasi...
This volume seeks to discuss the influence of new modes of transportation and their coexistence with older ones by incorporating a comprehensive range of sources written by both European and Asian travellers. It is inspired by the anthropology of th...Loe edasi...
First published in 1939, Language Hunting in the Karakoram describes the journey taken by the author to the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir, and Karakoram, and details the authors experiences when she resided in Hunza with her husband, Lieutena...Loe edasi...
First published in 1947, Over the Hills and Far Away takes the reader back to the holidays of olden times and then in the footsteps of the first holiday-makers on the European Continent in the 17th century....Loe edasi...
Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era offers fresh examinations of interwar era accounts by women about travel and movement, and is essential reading for students and researchers of womens travel writing, as well as scholars of gender studi...Loe edasi...
First published in 1969 Brazil: Land Without Limits offers its readers the full flavour of this enchanting land that is Brazil. Malcolm Slesser travelled through Brazil during a year as a lecturer at the University of Rio de Janeiro and brings his s...Loe edasi...
This book provides analytical study of the colonial literature of Baghdad in relation to its historiography. The history of travelogues throughout different periods of Baghdads history is highlighted, with a specific focus on 18th and 19th centuries...Loe edasi...
This is the first complete English translation of a lively travelogue written by Andronikos aka Nikandros Noukios, a Greek from Corfu, who accompanied a diplomatic mission from Venice to England in the middle of the sixteenth century....Loe edasi...
This new collection assembles seven accounts of women who visited and resided in India between 1760 and 1840. This final volume includes a text by Mary Sherwood called The Life of Mrs Sherwood (1854)....Loe edasi...
This new collection assembles seven accounts of women who visited and resided in India between 1760 and 1840. This volume includes two texts, Ann Deane, A Tour Through the Upper Provinces of Hindostan (1823) and Julia Maitland, Letters from Madras (...Loe edasi...
This new collection assembles seven accounts of women who visited and resided in India during 1760 and 1840. This volume includes two texts, Harriet Newell, Memoirs of Mrs Harriet Newell (1815) and Eliza Fay, Original Letters from India (1817)....Loe edasi...
This new collection assembles seven accounts of women who visited and resided in India during 1760 and 1840. This first volume includes two texts, Jemima Kindersley, Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East I...Loe edasi...
This new collection assembles seven accounts of women who visited and resided in India between 1760 and 1840. The highly regarded accounts not only reported events and developments in the subcontinent, they also contributed to them, helping to shape...Loe edasi...
This book examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the 19th century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-May-2018, Kirjastus: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003721253)
This book revisits the trajectory of one section of Patrick Leigh Fermors famous pedestrian excursion from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople....Loe edasi...
In 1910, Dr Hackmann started on a lengthy tour throughout Mongolia, China, Japan, Cambodia, Siam, and India, studying Buddhism and other Eastern Religions, Shintoism and Taoism. He returned to London in the spring of 1911, and published this book....Loe edasi...
This volume contains Elizabeth Isabella Spences Letters from the North Highlands, one of the Romantic eras most successful non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands (1816), a work that, while influenced by Grants Letters from the Mountains (1...Loe edasi...
This volume contains the second volume of Anne Grants Letters from the Mountains (1806), one of the Romantic eras most successful non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands....Loe edasi...
This volume contains the first volume of Anne Grants Letters from the Mountains (1806), one of the Romantic eras most successful non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands....Loe edasi...
This volume contains the third volume of Anne Grants Letters from the Mountains (1806), one of the Romantic eras most successful non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands....Loe edasi...
