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
Travellers' Tales
Author: Henry Cadwallader Adams
Publisher:
Published: 1883
Total Pages: 402
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Author: Bertil Scali
Publisher:
Published: 2018-10-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500022504
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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 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
Travelers' Tales Japan
Author: Donald W. George
Publisher: Travelers' Tales Guides
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9781932361254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is it about Japan that so beguiles foreigners? It is a small country and yet an economic powerhouse, a land of great natural beauty -- from green-cloaked mountains to glistening rice paddies -- a place of intricate arts and crafts and amazing cuisine, and home to a people whose kindness and sensitivity surprise westerners at each turn. It is no wonder that Japan simultaneously astonishes, delights, and frustrates travelers, and the diverse tales in this book reveal the nation in all its contradictions: a place of tranquil temples and high-tech toilets, exquisite ancient inns and lurid love hotels, where electric baths sit beside indoor ski slopes, and cherry blossoms fall on kindly grandmothers, cynical salarymen, wise monks, and wild lovers alike. Gathered in this collection are pieces by several notable authors, each offering anecdotes that tell of encounters to be had or avoided, each with uncommon insight to enrich the traveler's experience.
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.
Travelers' Tales Tibet
Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781885211767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnjoy riveting tales by world-renowned writers about one of the most fascinating regions on Earth. One author witnesses an ancient sky burial; another works as an extra on a Chinese movie set; another visits Potala Palace, the home of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Illustrations.
