Pious Passengers
Pious Passengers

Author: Michael Naylor Pearson

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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For over 1300 years the hajj or pilgrimmage to Mecca - a principle requirement of the Islamic faith - has been one of the world's great annual events. It had, in addition, a huge impact on the development of safe passage by land and of regular seaborne passenger traffic in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf.

There and Back
There and Back

Author: Stewart Gordon

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0199093563

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Though travelling is lauded as a means of enriching our lives, the emphasis is generally on the destination rather than the journey. Yet, throughout human history, routes have ferried not just people but books, scrolls, and art, in addition to armies, ambassadorial entourages, slaves, brides, and pilgrims. The interaction of people on routes generated surprising innovations. Through myths, memoirs, and songs associated with twelve such great routes across five continents, historian Stewart Gordon shows how they captured the collective imagination and shaped the expectations of generations of would-be travellers.

The Hajj
The Hajj

Author: Eric Tagliacozzo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 110703051X

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Scholars from a range of fields tell the story of the Hajj and explain its significance as one of the key events in the Muslim religious calendar. This volume pays attention to the diverse aspects of the Hajj, as lived every year by hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide.

The Story of America
The Story of America

Author: Jill Lepore

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2012-10-07

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 069115399X

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In this book, the author investigates American origin stories, from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address, in order to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. It excavates the origins of everything from the paper ballot and the Constitution to the I.O.U. and the dictionary. It presents readings of Benjamin Franklin's Way to Wealth, Thomas Paine's Common Sense, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, and Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, as well as histories of lesser-known genres, including biographies of presidents, novels of immigrants, and accounts of the Depression. From past to present, the author argues, Americans have wrestled with the idea of democracy by telling stories; here, she offers both a history of origin stories and a meditation on storytelling itself.

Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies C.1840-c.1914
Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies C.1840-c.1914

Author: Rowan Strong

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0198724241

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Rowan Strong looks at the religious component of the nineteenth-century British and Irish emigration experience, by examining the varieties of Christianity adhered to by most British and Irish emigrants in the nineteenth century, and consequently taken to their new homes in British settler colonies.