Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780330293907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 2011-12-27
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781609520755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Road Within is a book of transformation, of lessons learned, maps drawn and burned, and spiritual blessings bestowed by that great and hard teacher -- travel. Learn what mystics and saints have always known -- that wondrous things await people who are in touch with themselves, with the world, and with God. Authors featured in this very different kind of travel book include Annie Dillard, Huston Smith, Natalie Goldberg, Andrew Harvey, Barry Lopez, and Bill Buford.
Author: Bill Sherwonit
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1885211961
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Author: Jon Bird
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-07-08
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1134912978
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Most 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'.
Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 2009-11-01
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 1932361804
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner 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
Author: Anne Calcagno
Publisher: Travelers' Tales Guides
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781885211729
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of the best literature on life and travel in Italy is completely revised and updated, and features articles from authors that include Tim Parks, Patricia Hampl, Mary Taylor Simeti, and others. Illustrations. Maps.
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
Published: 2007-09-01
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781435344952
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Washington Irving is one of America's most enduring, and beloved authors. For nothing else, people know Washington Irving as the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." "Tales of a Traveler" was written in 1824, under the pseudonym "Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." One of Irving's better-known pseudonyms was Diedrich Knickerbocker, a name inextricably linked to New York City, and to today's New York Knicks. "Tales of a Traveler" tells a number of humorous stories and anecdotes about exotic dinners and the European travels of Geoffrey Crayon and his colorful relatives. Full of dry wit, "Tales of a Traveler" will please readers today as much as it pleased them in the early 19th century.
Author: Lucy McCauley
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9781885211781
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What'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.