The Travelers' Book of Color Photography
Author: Van Phillips Owen Thomas
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
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The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers
Author: Mary Morris
Publisher: Virago Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780316647977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree hundred years of wanderlust are captured in this beautiful new illustrated edition of the VIRAGO BOOK OF WOMEN TRAVELLERS. Some of the women are observers of the world in which they wander and others are more active. Often they are storytellers, weaving tales about the people they encounter and whether it is curiosity about the world or escape from personal tragedy, these women approached their journeys with wit, intelligence, compassion and empathy for the lives of others. The constraints and perils, the perceptions and complex emotions women journey with are different and for many women, the inner landscape is as important as the outer. This does not mean that the woman traveller is not politically aware, historically astute or in touch with the customs and language of the place but it does mean that a woman cannot travel and not be aware of her body and the limitations her sex presents.
Irish Travellers
Author: Sharon Bohn Gmelch
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2014-10-23
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0253014611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnthropologists George and Sharon Gmelch have been studying the quasi-nomadic people known as Travellers since their fieldwork in the early 1970s, when they lived among Travellers and went on the road in their own horse-drawn wagon. In 2011 they returned to seek out families they had known decades before—shadowed by a film crew and taking with them hundreds of old photographs showing the Travellers' former way of life. Many of these images are included in this book, alongside more recent photos and compelling personal narratives that reveal how Traveller lives have changed now that they have left nomadism behind.
Travelers in the Third Reich
Author: Julia Boyd
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-08-07
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1681778432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTravelers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, fascists, artists, tourists, and even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler—one so palpable that the reader will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.These are the accidental eyewitnesses to history. Disturbing, absurd, moving, and ranging from the deeply trivial to the deeply tragic, their tales give a fresh insight into the complexities of the Third Reich, its paradoxes, and its ultimate destruction.
Muslim Travellers
Author: Dale F. Eickelman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 113611260X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPilgrimage, travel for learning, visits to shrines, exile, and labour migration shape the religious imagination and in turn are shaped by it. Some travel, such as pilgrimage, explicitly intended for religious purposes, has equally important economic and political consequences. Other travel, not primarily motivated by religious concerns and thus neglected by many scholars, nonetheless profoundly influences religious symbols, metaphors, practices and senses of community. These studies, encompassing Muslim societies from Malaysia to West Africa, also suggest how encounters with Muslim `others' have been as important in shaping community self-definition as encounters with European 'others'. This volume brings together historians, social scientists and jurists concerned with pilgrimage, scholarly travel and migration in both medieval and contemporary Muslim societies and explores basic issues. Can 'Muslim travel' be regarded as a distinct form of social action? What role does religious doctrine play in motivating travel and how do doctrinal interpretations differ across time and place? What are the strengths and limitations of various approaches to understanding the transnational and local significance of pilgrimage, migration and other forms of travel? An image of Muslim tradition and change in local communities in relation to travel emerges, which competes with the myth of the universality of the Islamic community.
Traveller
Author: Richard ADAMS
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the events of the Civil War through the eyes of General Robert E. Lee's closest companion and devoted horse, Traveller.
Tinkers and Travellers
Author: Sharon Gmelch
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1975-01-01
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 0773592903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoonlight Travellers
Author: Will Self
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0500022739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together two formidable talents for the first time, this literary and artistic collaboration on the theme of night travel features original artwork by Quentin Blake and text by Will Self. This breakthrough publication promises both to excite and haunt the reader’s imagination. Quentin Blake, the so-called Godfather of Illustration, combines his talents with novelist Will Self, “one of the most manically imaginative writers at work today” (Financial Times). The result is a book of irresistible appeal to literature and art lovers alike. Blake’s watercolors relate, with dark, fantastical humor, the experience of journeying across unknown landscapes in the dead of night. Accompanying this artistic narrative is an equally evocative text from the ever-brilliant mind of Will Self. With characteristic sharpness and wit, Self melds fact, fiction, and memory to transport the reader in the most radical way, departing on unexpected trajectories in response to Blake’s visual romp through time and space. Together, word and image connect with our deepest sensibilities in Moonlight Travellers as we journey through the landscapes and dreamscapes of night.
Roma, Gypsies, Travellers
Author: Jean-Pierre Liégeois
Publisher: Council of Europe
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9789287123497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an understanding of Gypsies and Travellers by introducing the reader to the richness of their culture and lifestyle.
Travelers
Author: Helon Habila
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0393358070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA startlingly imaginative exploration of the African diaspora in Europe, by one of our most acclaimed international writers. Award-winning author Helon Habila has been described as "a courageous tale teller with an uncompromising vision…a major talent" (Rawi Hage). His new novel Travelers is a life-changing encounter with those who have been uprooted by war or aspiration, fear or hope. A Nigerian graduate student who has made his home in America knows what it means to strike out for new shores. When his wife proposes that he accompany her to Berlin, where she has been awarded a prestigious arts fellowship, he has his reservations: “I knew every departure is a death, every return a rebirth. Most changes happen unplanned, and they always leave a scar.” In Berlin, Habila’s central character finds himself thrown into contact with a community of African immigrants and refugees whose lives previously seemed distant from his own, but to which he is increasingly drawn. The walls between his privileged, secure existence and the stories of these other Africans on the move soon crumble, and his sense of identity begins to dissolve as he finds that he can no longer separate himself from others’ horrors, or from Africa. A lean, expansive, heart-rending exploration of loss and of connection, Travelers inscribes unforgettable signposts—both unsettling and luminous—marking the universal journey in pursuit of love and home.
