A Book of Travellers' Tales
Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780330293907
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Travellers' Tales
Author: Jon Bird
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-07-08
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1134912978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost of us, at various moments in our lives, either adopt a `tourist' identity of are framed within another's tourist experience. Travellers' Tales investigates the future for travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and critical discourses of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration; collecting and representing other cultures. Travellers' tales oscillate between the thrill of novel experiences and unexpected pleasures, and the alienation and loneliness of exile in a strange land. The contributions review recent work on the discourses of tourism, travel and cultural politics; the effects of global interactions and local resistances, and the ways in which records, memorials and signs have all been used to describe the experience of encountering the `other'.
Travelers' Tales Thailand
Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 2009-11-01
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 1932361804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book, this newly designed collection paints a unique portrait of a complex and captivating land. One contributor lives as a monk for a month, gaining an inside look at monastic life. Another discovers Bangkok’s riverine pleasures, a world away from its car-choked streets. Yet another finds refuge as the houseguest of an isolated tribesman. Through these engaging personal stories, readers witness how Thailand satisfies just about any traveler’s hunger for the exotic, the beautiful, the thrillingly different. Writers include Pico Iyer, Norman Lewis, Diane Summers, Simon Winchester, Ian Buruma, Thalia Zepatos, and Tim Ward. “The breadth and color of the collective portrait [the contributors] provide of Thailand is remarkable.” — Los Angeles Times
Travelers' Tales Central America
Author: Larry Habegger
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781885211743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese stories of travel in Central America -- Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama -- are adventurous and quirky, sobering and enlightening. Readers visit a Panamanian island known for its wildlife; glimpse the wealthy Generation X repatriates of Nicaragua; and meet a charming Guatemalan revolutionary. Authors include Paul Theroux, Jennifer Harbury, Ronald Wright, Joan Didion, Randy Wayne White, and Rigoberta Menchu. Travelers' Tales Central America provides a new window into this astonishingly beautiful and complex part of the world. "For the thoughtful traveler, these books are an invaluable resource." -- Pico Iyer
Travellers' Tales
Author: Bertil Scali
Publisher:
Published: 2018-10-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500022504
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Spain
Author: Lucy McCauley
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9781885211781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat's it like to be there? "Travellers' Tales" gives the best possible answer through the true stories of other travelers. Journey into Spain with some of the world's best writers, and discover a country of heightened senses, bougainvillea blossoming in crimson and orange, and air pungent with sizzling olive oil. A sensuous journey into a land of mystery and beauty.
America
Author: Fred Setterberg
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9781885211286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA portrait of the nation through tales of travelers who have traversed the breadth and depth of America the beautiful.
Travelers' Tales Nepal
Author: Rajendra S. Khadka
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781885211149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGathers stories by Peter Matthiessen, Jimmy Carter, Diane Summers, Broghtonoburn, Meg Lukens Noonan, and Jan Morris describing their adventures inepal.
Travellers' Tales of Wonder
Author: Simon Cooke
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2013-02-22
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0748675477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring travellers' tales of wonder in contemporary literature, this study challenges a sensibility of disenchantment with travel. It reassesses travel writing as an aesthetically and ethically innovative form in contemporary international literature, and demonstrates the crucial role of wonder in the travel narratives of writers such as Bruce Chatwin, V.S. Naipaul, and W.G. Sebald. Their 'travellers' tales of wonder' are read as a challenge to the hubris of thinking the world too well known, and an invitation to encounter the world - including its most troubling histories - with a sense of wonder.
Scottish Traveller Tales
Author: Donald Braid
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2002-07-25
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781934110980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only book that closely examines this fascinating storytelling culture of Scotland
