Virtual Voyages

Virtual Voyages

Author: Paul Longley Arthur

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0857284088

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'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era of European maritime exploration, these bizarre and captivating tales, with their wildly imaginative visions of antipodean inversion and strangeness, reveal a hidden history of attitudes to colonization. By exposing the relationship between myth and reality in the antipodes, this book casts new light on the power of fiction to influence history. In the post-colonial studies field, books about travel writing and empire have tended to focus on the high period of nineteenth-century imperialism and on the colonial settings of Africa and India. This book offers a fresh perspective by focussing on the eighteenth century, and referring to the geographical region of Australia and the Pacific, which has had far less attention. The book also breaks new ground by being the first to approach the genre of the imaginary voyage from a post-colonial perspective. In addition to the new insights into European colonialism that it offers, the book illustrates many broader themes in eighteenth-century history and thought. These include connections between the rise of science and modern imperialism, the development of narrative history and fiction and the influence of romanticism, the evolution of the early novel in Britain and France, and the role of mythology in the development of national identity.


Virtual Voyages

Virtual Voyages

Author: Jeffrey Ruoff

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2006-01-24

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780822337133

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DIVThe different forms that travelogues have taken (documentaries, IMAX, home movies, ethnographic films) from the 1800s to the present./div


Web Site Source Book

Web Site Source Book

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 2404

ISBN-13:

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A guide to major U.S. businesses, organizations, agencies, institutions, and other information resources on the World Wide Web.


Spirits of San Francisco

Spirits of San Francisco

Author: Gary Kamiya

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1635575893

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The bestselling book from two prizewinning, critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco-a rich, illustrated, idiosyncratic portrait of this great city. In Spirits of San Francisco, #1 bestselling Cool Gray City of Love author Gary Kamiya joins forces with celebrated, bestselling artist Paul Madonna to take a fresh look at this one-of-a-kind city. Marrying image and text in a way no book about this city has done before, Kamiya's illuminating narratives accompany Madonna's masterful pen-and-ink drawings, breathing life into San Francisco sites both iconic and obscure. Paul Madonna's atmospheric images will awe: his wide-angle drawings offer a new perspective on the “crookedest street in the world” and vistas across the city. And Kamiya's engaging prose, accompanying each image, offers striking vignettes of this incredible city: witness his story of “Dumpville,” the bizarre community that sprang up in the 19th century on top of a massive garbage dump. Handsome and irresistible-much like the city it chronicles-Spirits of San Francisco is both a visual feast and a detailed, personal, loving, informed portrait of a beloved city.


Web Publishing Unleashed

Web Publishing Unleashed

Author: William R. Stanek

Publisher: Sams

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 964

ISBN-13: 9781575210513

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This comprehensive Web publishing resource shows those who are new to the Web how to create, design and publish Web publications. It gives an overview of the Web and then explores in greater detail HyperText Markup Language, interactive publications, Web publishing production systems, multimedia concepts, the future of the Web, and how to build and publish a Web page. Contains 5 Appendices including an HTML reference and SGML upgrade guide. The included CD-ROM contains HTML editing tools source code, Java applets, and Netscape plug-ins, among other useful material. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR