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Places Lost and Found: Travel Essays from the Hudson Review [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 400 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 251x195x15 mm, kaal: 333 g, 12 colour illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 10-May-2021
  • Kirjastus: Syracuse University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0815611234
  • ISBN-13: 9780815611233
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 400 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 251x195x15 mm, kaal: 333 g, 12 colour illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 10-May-2021
  • Kirjastus: Syracuse University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0815611234
  • ISBN-13: 9780815611233
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The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal, including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles. Many of these are pilgrimages; others are harrowing memoirs. What unites even the most devastating of these accounts are intellectual curiosity and a spirit of adventure.

Places Lost and Found is a treasury of distinctive and compelling essays selected from six decades of the Hudson Review. From a description of the gardens of Kyoto and a portrait of Syria just before its civil war to reflections on Veblen and the Mall of America, these essays explore an array of places that are deeply layered with history and meaning.

The stunning cover photo of the Semper Opera House in Dresden encapsulates many of the themes of the book: war and its aftermath, the importance of the built environment in any discussion of "place," the endurance of civilization and resilience, and of course the romance of travel.

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The consistent quality and variety of approachesmemoir, reportage, meditation, diary, criticismmake this anthology of travel writing fresh and compelling from beginning to end.

List of Illustrations
xi
Preface xiii
Ronald Koury
Introduction xv
Tess Lewis
Iran, Twenty Years Ago
1(2)
Dick Davis
A Cambodian Diary
3(28)
Joseph Bennett
Making It Uglier to the Airport
31(10)
Guy Davenport
On a Greek Holiday
41(23)
Alice Bloom
The British in India
64(4)
C. B. Cox
The Gardens of Kyoto in Summer
68(8)
Charles W. Millard
Scenes from Nicaragua
76(3)
Paul Moore Jr.
Letter from Dresden
79(9)
Robert S. Clark
The Guiana Connection
88(12)
John P. Sisk
Ontario Towns
100(17)
C. S. Giscombe
In Co. Cork
117(4)
William Trevor
Veblen and the Mall of America
121(10)
Lynda McDonnell
Miroir Danjere
131(17)
Madison Smartt Bell
Cannibals and Kava
148(8)
Diana Webster
The Blue Grotto
156(9)
Jacqueline W. Brown
Letter from Arcadia
165(8)
Hilary Spurling
Letters from America
173(37)
Alexis De Tocqueville
Frederick Brown
Letter from Damascus
210(15)
Brooke Allen
Tremblement de Terre! The Gods Turned Their Faces Away: Letter from Haiti
225(19)
Herbert Gold
Letter from Indonesia
244(9)
Christian N. Desrosiers
The Lighthouse at the End of the Hudson
253(30)
Antonio Munoz Molina
Martina Broner
From Sundogs to the Midnight Sun An Alaskan Reverie
283(36)
Laurie Olin
Letter from Tasmania
319(9)
David Mason
Homesick for Sadness: A Childhood in Incompletion
328(13)
Jenny Erpenbeck
Susan Bernofsky
Letter from Athens: Logbook I, Days of 2016 (and Moments Before and After)
341(24)
A. E. Stallings
Copyrights and Credits 365(4)
Notes on Contributors 369
Ronald Koury joined the Hudson Review in 1981 and has been its managing editor since 1985. He is the editor of Literary Awakenings: Personal Essays from the Hudson Review.