The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories
The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780192781673

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A collection of stories about time, exploring all the different ways that we can twist and play with time. The stories take in trips to the future, package holidays to the past, visitors from other times with unwelcome messages, a thief with the power to stop time altogether, a man in lovewith someone who died years before he was born, a star fleet that paradoxically caused its own destruction, and many more. With a sure appeal for everyone who likes an exciting, thought-provoking story, as well as fans of science fiction and ghost stories, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of stories to amuse, amaze, and enthral.

Literature of Travel and Exploration
Literature of Travel and Exploration

Author: Jennifer Speake

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 3477

ISBN-13: 1135456623

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Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Literature of Travel and Exploration: A to F
Literature of Travel and Exploration: A to F

Author: Jennifer Speake

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9781579584252

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Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13: 9780195092622

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This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.

A Canadian Writer's Reference with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates
A Canadian Writer's Reference with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates

Author: Diana Hacker

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2010-05-24

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 0312664915

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Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. A proven success, A Canadian Writer’s Reference, Fourth Edition, remains the easiest reference tool to use and understand. Updated with Canadian content and conventions, the fourth edition features new contributing authors who bring a wider range of teaching practice to the book — and who have shaped a writer’s handbook that serves an even broader and more diverse student body.

A Writer's Workbook
A Writer's Workbook

Author: Caroline Sharp

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-06-14

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 031228621X

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The result of years of blood, sweat, and story writing--along with an MFA, some published stories, an optioned screenplay, and a million cups of coffee--"A Writer's Workbook" is Sharp's ingenious collection of exercises to inspire, encourage, warm up and jump-start anyone who writes.

Translating Travel
Translating Travel

Author: Loredana Polezzi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1351877933

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Translating Travel examines the relationship between travel writing and translation, asking what happens when books travel beyond the narrow confines of one genre, one literary system and one culture. The volume takes as its starting point the marginal position of contemporary Italian travel writing in the Italian literary system, and proposes a comparative reading of originals and translations designed to highlight the varying reception of texts in different cultures. Two main themes in the book are the affinity between the representations produced by travel and the practices of translation, and the complex links between travel writing and genres such as ethnography, journalism, autobiography and fiction. Individual chapters are devoted to Italian travellers' accounts of Tibet and their English translations; the hybridization of journalism and travel writing in the works of Oriana Fallaci; Italo Calvino's sublimation of travel writing in the stylized fiction of Le città invisibili; and the complex network of literary references which marked the reception of Claudio Magris's Danubio in different cultures.

Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism
Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism

Author: Jeffrey Alan Melton

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2002-06-26

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0817311602

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Grounding this study in tourist theory, Melton explores how, in five travel books, Twain captures the birth and growth of a new creature who would go on to change the map of the world: the American tourist."--BOOK JACKET.