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...
The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary genre. Carl Thompson offers a clear and concise overview of the long history of travel writing from the ancient world to the present...Loe edasi...
It traces the evolution of travel writing studies over the last two decades and points to innovative ways to study this heterogenous genre. The book revisits the complicated relationship between fact and fiction, science and literature, and the worl...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...
This book is the first annotated translation of the travelogues of Huang Maocai. A trained Chinese cartographer in the service of the imperial Qing state, he was officially deputed to ascertain the Tibet-India land route and the geo-political status...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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Jun-2024, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032691138)
This book presents the first translation of travel writings and letters by Abala Bose, and examines an Indian womans close observation and interrogation of social stereotypes as she toured India in colonial times and Europe, America and Japan at the...Loe edasi...
It explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys. These re-enactments are quests for aura meant to capture a sense of historical profundity. However, they are also precarious and contingent, and for...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 book illustrates how current transformations in media invite us to revisit earlier periods of travel writing and their media environments, and to explore the ways in which contemporary forms of mediation are prefigured by earlier practices and...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...
The culture of early modern England and Europe was richly hybrid, forged through interactions between diverse nations and language communities, and through new encounters with the wider world beyond Europe. Ranging from the neo-Latin poetry of an En...Loe edasi...
