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Around the World in 80 Words

Author : Paul Anthony Jones
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022668279X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Around the World in 80 Words written by Paul Anthony Jones and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a place so memorable that it survives forever in a word? In this captivating round-the-world tour, Paul Anthony Jones acts as your guide through the intriguing stories of how eighty places became immortalized in the English language. You’ll discover why the origins of turkeys, limericks, Brazil nuts, and Panama hats aren’t quite as straightforward as you might presume. If you’ve never heard of the tiny Czech mining town of Jáchymov—or Joachimsthal, as it was known until the late 1800s—you’re not alone, which makes its claim to fame as the origin of the word “dollar” all the more extraordinary. The story of how the Great Dane isn’t all that Danish makes the list, as does the Jordanian mountain whose name has become a byword for a tantalizing glimpse. We’ll also find out what the Philippines has given to your office inbox, what Alaska has given to your liquor cabinet, and how a speech given by a bumbling North Carolinian gave us a word for impenetrable nonsense. Surprising, entertaining, and illuminating, this is essential reading for armchair travelers and word nerds. Our dictionaries are full of hidden histories, tales, and adventures from all over the world—if you know where to look.

A Little Journey in the World

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368622102
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book A Little Journey in the World written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-11 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

The Journey of Little Charlie

Author : Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338164007
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Journey of Little Charlie written by Christopher Paul Curtis and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Newberry Medalist brings humor and heart to this story of a Civil War–era boy struggling to do right in the face of history’s cruelest evils. Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His sharecropper father just died, and Cap’n Buck—the most fearsome man in Possum Moan, South Carolina—has come to collect a debt. Fearing for his life, Charlie strikes a deal with Cap’n Buck and agrees to track down some folks accused of stealing from the cap’n and his boss. It’s not too bad of a bargain for Charlie . . . until he comes face-to-face with the fugitives and discovers their true identities. Torn between his guilty conscience and his survival instinct, Charlie needs to figure out his next move—and soon. It’s only a matter of time before Cap’n Buck catches on. Praise for The Journey of Little Charlie A National Book Award Finalist “This is a compelling and ugly story for middle-grade readers told with genuine care. Little Charlie is a product of his Southern upbringing, yet in Curtis’s skillful hands he learns the world is not as he’d thought . . . Christopher Paul Curtis does it again.” —Historical Novel Society “A characteristically lively and complex addition to the historical fiction of the era from Curtis.” —Kirkus Reviews

Little World: Jungle Journey

Author : Ladybird Publishing Staff
Publisher : Ladybird
ISBN 13 : 9780241373002
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Little World: Jungle Journey written by Ladybird Publishing Staff and published by Ladybird. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curious minds will love to explore the dark recesses of the jungle with this interactive title from Little World. Discover all sorts of creatures high up in the canopy and on the jungle floor in this bright and colourful board book, which features a novelty to slide, push or pull on every spread.

The Travel Book

Author : Carolyn Bain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781743219423
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book The Travel Book written by Carolyn Bain and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the most avid readers of travel guides and travel literature will not have encountered a book quite like this one. It is huge and heavy but reasonably priced, and it is vastly informative, which is its calling card. All the writers who contribute to the Lonely Planet travel guide series have put heads, knowledge, and experience together.

Around the World in 80 Books

Author : David Damrosch
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141981504
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Around the World in 80 Books written by David Damrosch and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen Greenblatt A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books 'It is always a pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all of them, and he is so eloquent and understanding about them all' Orhan Pamuk Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel prizewinners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience, and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we're entering. Taken together, these eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on perennial problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat and the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books' heroines have to struggle, from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to that of Margaret Atwood today. Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways.

Around the World in 60 Seconds

Author : Nuseir Yassin
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062932683
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Around the World in 60 Seconds written by Nuseir Yassin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the Nas Daily video series with over 13 million dedicated followers comes the surprising, moving 1,000-day journey of a lifetime in book form In 2016, Nuseir Yassin quit his job to travel for 1,000 consecutive days. But instead of the usual tourist traps, Nas set out to meet real people, see the places they call home, and discover what unites all of us living on this beautiful planet—from villages in Africa and slums in India, to the high-rises of Singapore and the deserts of Australia. While he journeyed from country to country, Nas uploaded a single 60-second video per day for his Nas Daily Facebook following to highlight the amazing, terrifying, inspiring and downright surprising sh*t happening all over the world. Thirteen million followers later, Nas Daily has become the most immersive travel experience ever captured, and finally shows us what we’ve all been looking for: each other. AROUND THE WORLD IN 60 SECONDS is Nas’ unpredictable 1,000-day world tour in book form. At times a striking portrait of the most uncharted places in the world, at others a touching exploration of the human heart, this collection of life-affirming stories and breathtaking photographs changes how we think about humanity and community and invites us all on a journey to see the world, and each other, anew.

The Great Human Journey

Author : Ian Tattersall
Publisher : Wallace and Darwin
ISBN 13 : 9781593731489
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Great Human Journey written by Ian Tattersall and published by Wallace and Darwin. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their 22 Million Day Journey our intrepid mice, Wallace and Darwin, trace the biggest genealogy of all and find that all humans are 85% African and only 15% from the rest of the world!

Around the World with Mouk

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811869263
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book Around the World with Mouk written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with vibrant illustrations, search-and-find challenges, and 46 reusable stickers, this oversized book is a spectacular play space for future world travelers. And Mouk is the perfect tour guide! His journey takes him all around the world, and at every stop along the way his animal friends share fascinating tidbits about local customs. Young adventure-seekers will be amazed and amused by something new with every reading. WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

Around the World in 80 Days

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465548505
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Around the World in 80 Days written by Jules Verne and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 (Dear America)

Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545414962
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 (Dear America) written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky's A JOURNEY TO THE NEW WORLD is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!Twelve-year-old Remember Patience Whipple ("Mem" for short) has just arrived in the New World with her parents after a grueling 65-day journey on the MAYFLOWER. Mem has an irrepressible spirit, and leaps headfirst into life in her new home. Despite harsh conditions, Mem is fearless. She helps to care for the sick and wants more than anything to meet and befriend a Native American.

The Way of the World

Author : Nicolas Bouvier
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590173228
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Way of the World written by Nicolas Bouvier and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953, twenty-four-year old Nicolas Bouvier and his artist friend Thierry Vernet set out to make their way overland from their native Geneva to the Khyber Pass. They had a rattletrap Fiat and a little money, but above all they were equipped with the certainty that by hook or by crook they would reach their destination, and that there would be unanticipated adventures, curious companionship, and sudden illumination along the way. The Way of the World, which Bouvier fashioned over the course of many years from his journals, is an entrancing story of adventure, an extraordinary work of art, and a voyage of self-discovery on the order of Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. As Bouvier writes, “You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making—or unmaking—you.”

One Year Off

Author : David Elliot Cohen
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 9781885211651
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book One Year Off written by David Elliot Cohen and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2001 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With three children under the age of nine, the youngest still in diapers, the Cohens decide to do something many dream of, but few actually undertake: sell the house, the cars, and the belongings and take off for a year-long journey around the world. Demonstrating great creativity and tremendous tenacity, David, Devi, and their children create the adventure of a lifetime -- an inspiration to anyone who dreams of leaving it all behind. Book jacket.

We Are Displaced

Author : Malala Yousafzai
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316523666
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book We Are Displaced written by Malala Yousafzai and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful book, Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces the people behind the statistics and news stories about the millions of people displaced worldwide. After her father was murdered, María escaped in the middle of the night with her mother. Zaynab was out of school for two years as she fled war before landing in America. Her sister, Sabreen, survived a harrowing journey to Italy. Ajida escaped horrific violence, but then found herself battling the elements to keep her family safe. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement — first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere except to the home she loved. In We Are Displaced, Malala not only explores her own story, but she also shares the personal stories of some of the incredible girls she has met on her journeys — girls who have lost their community, relatives, and often the only world they've ever known. In a time of immigration crises, war, and border conflicts, We Are Displaced is an important reminder from one of the world's most prominent young activists that every single one of the 68.5 million currently displaced is a person — often a young person — with hopes and dreams. "A stirring and timely book." —New York Times

East Toward Dawn

Author : Nan Watkins
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580050647
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book East Toward Dawn written by Nan Watkins and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2002-04-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of her son and the end of her 30-year marriage, Nan Watkins decides on her 60th birthday to travel the globe alone. What begins as a trip to renew connections with friends across Asia and Europe becomes a powerful journey of body, mind, and spirit.

Field Notes from a Pandemic

Author : Ethan Lou
Publisher : Signal
ISBN 13 : 0771029977
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Field Notes from a Pandemic written by Ethan Lou and published by Signal. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of 2020 In a book equal parts travelogue and pandemic guide, the journalist Ethan Lou examines the societal effects of COVID-19 and takes us on a mesmerizing journey around a world that will never be the same. Visiting Beijing in January 2020 to see his dying grandfather, the Canadian journalist Ethan Lou unknowingly walks into a state under siege. In his journey out of China and—unwittingly—into other hot zones in Asia and Europe, he finds himself witnessing the very earliest stages of a virus that will forever change the world as we know it. Lou argues that the coronavirus outbreak will have a far greater impact than SARS, for example, simply because China is now many more times integrated with the increasingly interconnected world. Over decades, globalization has crafted a world painfully sensitive and susceptible to shocks such as this pandemic. A crisis like it has thus been long overdue—and we have yet to see it unfold fully. In our integrated world, events that may previously be isolated now ripple farther and wider and in ways we do not expect and cannot foresee. We have not seen the worst, and if and when we outlast this pandemic, nothing will ever be the same. Decisions now—or indecisions—will shape and define the world for decades. These ideas are fleshed out through the virus's spawning and how it spread, the unprecedented measures to contain it and an examination of past pandemics and other crises and how they shaped the world--and an argument for why this one's different. Lou shows how drastically the virus has transformed the world and charts the greater and more radical shifts to come. His ideas and arguments are framed around his unintentionally tumultuous journey around the world, whose path the virus seemed to follow until he landed safely in quarantine in a small town in Germany, where he was able to take stock and start telling his story.

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

Author : Nellie Bly
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513285084
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Around the World in Seventy-Two Days written by Nellie Bly and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “She was part of the ‘stunt girl’ movement that was very important in the 1880s and 1890s as these big, mass-circulation yellow journalism papers came into the fore.” –Brooke Kroeger Around the World in Seventy-Two Days (1890) is a travel narrative by American investigative journalist Nellie Bly. Proposed as a recreation of the journey undertaken by Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Bly’s journey was covered in Joseph Pulitzer’s popular newspaper the New York World, inspiring countless others to attempt to surpass her record. At the time, readers at home were encouraged to estimate the hour and day of Bly’s arrival, and a popular board game was released in commemoration of her undertaking. Embarking from Hoboken, noted investigative journalist Nellie Bly began a voyage that would take her around the globe. Bringing only a change of clothes, money, and a small travel bag, Bly travelled by steamship and train through England, France—where she met Jules Verne—Italy, the Suez Canal, Ceylon, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan. Sending progress reports via telegraph, she made small reports back home while recording her experiences for publication upon her return. Despite several setbacks due to travel delays in Asia, Bly managed to beat her estimated arrival time by several days despite making unplanned detours, such as visiting a Chinese leper colony, along the way. Unbeknownst to Bly, her trip had inspired Cosmopolitan’s Elizabeth Brisland to make a similar circumnavigation beginning on the exact day, launching a series of copycat adventures by ambitious voyagers over the next few decades. Despite being surrounded by this air of popularity and competition, however, Bly took care to make her journey worthwhile, showcasing her skill as a reporter and true pioneer of investigative journalism. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Nellie Bly’s Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is a classic work of American travel literature reimagined for modern readers.