Different Travellers, Different Eyes
Different Travellers, Different Eyes

Author: Peter Wild

Publisher: TCU Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780875652429

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"The early American West has been depicted in art as a land of harsh struggles, a place of heavenly miracles, and everything in between. The narratives in Different Travellers, Different Eyes record journal and diary impressions of life in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century western American frontier. And some of the artists' writings portray a picture far different from their well-known paintings, sculptures and photographs. Different Travellers, Different Eyes includes memoirs by: Titian R. Peale, George Catlin, Alfred Jacob Miller, John James Audubon, Father Nicolas Point, Paul Kane, Samuel Chamberlain, Frank Marryat, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Balduin Mollhausen, Worthington Whittredge, William Keith, Kicking Bear (Mato Wanahtaka), Mary Hallock Foote, Frederic Remington, Thomas Moran, Emily Carr, Ernest L. Blumenschein, Maynard Dixon, Edward S. Curtis, and Charles M. Russell."--Jacket.

Spiritual Traveler
Spiritual Traveler

Author: Cameron Powers

Publisher: cameron powers

Published: 2006-07-15

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 0974588210

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Promoting a natural state of compassion which can easily exist between people in the absence of fear, author and musician Powers presents a glimpse into a very modern world with extensive Internet connections but which simultaneously drinks from the ancient wisdom of the Dervish-populated realms of the Middle East. (Foreign Travel)

The Cartographic Eye
The Cartographic Eye

Author: Simon Ryan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-09-13

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780521577915

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Cartographic Eye is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. An innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics and politics of Australian explorers' texts, it concentrates on the period 1820-1880. Simon Ryan looks at the journals of John Oxley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Sturt and Ludwig Leichhardt and shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations the authors would have us believe, but are complex networks of tropes. The Cartographic Eye scrutinises and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration. Its insightful analysis of the tendencies of colonialism will make a major contribution to 'new historicist' interrogations of colonialism. It will be a crucial text for readers in Australian literary and cultural studies, and for those interested in colonial discourse and postcolonial theory.

Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part I Vol 1
Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part I Vol 1

Author: Ann R Hawkins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-27

Total Pages: 651

ISBN-13: 1000748480

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This multi-volume reset collection will addresses significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.

Writing travel, writing life
Writing travel, writing life

Author: Pia Sójka

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Potsdam

Published: 2023-01-10

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 3869565373

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The book compares the texts of three Swiss authors: Ella Maillart, Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Nicolas Bouvier. The focus is on their trip from Genève to Kabul that Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach made together in 1939/1940 and Nicolas Bouvier 1953/1954 with the artist Thierry Vernet. The comparison shows the strong connection between the journey and life and between ars vivendi and travel literature. This book also gives an overview of and organises the numerous terms, genres, and categories that already exist to describe various travel texts and proposes the new term travelling narration. The travelling narration looks at the text from a narratological perspective that distinguishes the author, narrator, and protagonist within the narration. In the examination, ten motifs could be found to characterise the travelling narration: Culture, Crossing Borders, Freedom, Time and Space, the Aesthetics of Landscapes, Writing and Reading, the Self and/as the Other, Home, Religion and Spirituality as well as the Journey. The importance of each individual motif does not only apply in the 1930s or 1950s but also transmits important findings for living together today and in the future.