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Great Travellers, Volume 1

Author : Various
Publisher : VM eBooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Travellers, Volume 1 written by Various and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Next to actual travel, the reading of first-class travel stories by men and women of genius is the finest aid to the broadening of views and enlargement of useful knowledge of men and the world’s ways. It is the highest form of intellectual recreation, with the advantage over fiction-reading of satisfying the wholesome desire for facts. With all our modern enthusiasm for long journeys and foreign travel, now so easy of accomplishment, we see but very little of the great world. The fact that ocean voyages are now called mere “trips” has not made us over-familiar with even our own kinsfolk in our new dependencies. Foreign peoples and lands are still strange to us. Tropic and Arctic lands are as far apart in condition as ever; Europe differs from Asia, America from Africa, as markedly as ever. Man still presents every grade of development, from the lowest savagery to the highest civilization, and our interest in the marvels of nature and art, the variety of plant and animal life, and the widely varied habits and conditions, modes of thought and action, of mankind, is in no danger of losing its zest. These considerations have guided us in our endeavor to tell the story of the world, alike of its familiar and unfamiliar localities, as displayed in the narratives of those who have seen its every part. Special interest attaches to the stories of those travellers who first gazed upon the wonders and observed the inhabitants of previously unknown lands, and whose descriptions are therefore those of discoverers. One indisputable advantage belongs to this work over the average record of travel: the reader is not tied down to the perusal of a one-man book. He has the privilege of calling at pleasure upon any one of these eminent travellers to recount his or her exploit, with the certainty of finding they are all in their happiest vein and tell their best stories.

The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101201827
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 travel magazine in the country, a collection of travel tales from some of today's finest writers Travel writing maintains its seemingly endless popularity, and this volume offers a particularly transporting body of work, pairing exotic locales with writers of the highest caliber: Russell Banks writes on the Everglades, Francine Prose explores the secrets of Prague, Robert Hughes takes us on a tour of Italy, and more. From the most beautiful gardens to visit in Japan to the best free things to do in Provence, this book is as enlightening as it is entertaining. Whether off to the other side of the globe or to their favorite reading chair, wanderers of every sort will find this book truly indispensable. Other featured writers and places include: Nik Cohn on Savannah Philip Gourevitch on Tanzania Shirley Hazzard on Capri Pico Iyer on Iceland and Ethiopia Nicole Krauss on Japan Suketu Mehta on the Himalayas Edna O'Brien on Bath Patricia Storace on Provence and Athens James Truman on Iran Gregor Von Rezzori on Romania Edmund White on Jordan Simon Winchester on Mount Pinatubo William Dalrymple on his pilgrimage to Santiago John Julius Norwich on the Vatican Jan Morris on Hawaii

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 1

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Tacet Books
ISBN 13 : 3968583663
Total Pages : 1495 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 1 written by Oscar Wilde and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 1495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - Washington Irving:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Devil and Tom Walker Christmas Guest from Gibbet Island The Legend of the Engulphed Convent The Adventure of my Uncle - Oscar Wilde:Lord Arthur Savile's Crime The Sphinx without a Secret A Model Millionaire The Happy Prince The Fisherman and his Soul The Nightingale and the Rose The Young King - Bram Stoker:The Castle of the King A Star Trap The Secret of the Growing Gold The Burial of the Rats Dracula's Guest The Squaw The Judge's House - H.G. Wells:The Time Machine A Dream Of Armageddon The Crystal Egg The Man Who Could Work Miracles The Flowering of the Strange Orchid The Sea Riders The Apple - Arthur Conan Doyle:A Scandal In Bohemia The Five Orange Pips The Disintegration Machine When the World Screamed The Great Keinplatz Experiment The Horror of the Heights The Ring of Thoth - E.T.A. Hoffman:The Golden Pot The Sandman Councillor Krespela Automata The Elementary Spirit The Jesuits' Church in G-- The Story of the Hard Nut - Rudyard Kipling:The Mark of the Beast The Phantom 'Rickshaw Mowgli's Brothers (from the Jungle Book) Kaa's Hunting (from the Jungle Book) Tiger! Tiger! (from the Jungle Book) The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes The Man Who Would Be King - Franz Kafka:The Metamorphosis A Hunger Artist In the penal colony The Judgment Before the Law A Country Doctor A Report to an Academy - H.P. Lovecraft:The Call of Cthulhu The Outsider Pickman's Model The Statement of Randolph Carter The Colour out of Space The Dunwich Horror The Music of Erich Zann - Edgar Allan Poe:The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Pit and the Pendulum The Fall of the House of Usher The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Black Cat

Travel and Tourism in Britain, 1700–1914 Vol 1

Author : Susan Barton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000562050
Total Pages : 2048 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Travel and Tourism in Britain, 1700–1914 Vol 1 written by Susan Barton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 2048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British led the way in holidaymaking. This four-volume primary resource collection brings together a diverse range of texts on the various forms of transport used by tourists, the destinations they visited, the role of entertainments and accommodation and how these affected the way that tourism evolved over two centuries.Volume 1: Travel and Destinations Texts in this volume draw on accounts by early travellers, from short factual lists to longer subjective descriptions. Documents show how eagerly new forms of transport were adopted and how they gave rise to different leisure activities and new destinations. Methods of travel covered include: early road travel by horse or wagon, river travel via sail and steamships, railways, the safety bicycle, motorized transport (charabancs, coaches, buses, cars and bicycles) and finally, air travel.

Women's Travel Writings in Italy, Part I Vol 1

Author : Stephen Bending
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040239293
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Women's Travel Writings in Italy, Part I Vol 1 written by Stephen Bending and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly apparatus. The texts have been carefully selected to illustrate various themes in women's history.

Great Cities Through Travellers' Eyes

Author : Peter Furtado
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500774846
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Great Cities Through Travellers' Eyes written by Peter Furtado and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, intrepid men and women have related their experiences and perceptions of the worlds great cities to bring them alive to those at home. The thirty-eight cities covered in this entertaining anthology of travellers tales are spread over six continents, ranging from Beijing to Berlin, Cairo to Chicago, Lhasa to London, St Petersburg to Sydney and Rio to Rome. This volume features commentators across the millennia, including the great travellers of ancient times, such as Strabo and Pausanias; those who undertook extensive journeys in the medieval world, not least Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta; courageous women such as Isabella Bird and Freya Stark; and enterprising writers and journalists including Mark Twain and Norman Lewis. We see the worlds great cities through the eyes of traders, explorers, soldiers, diplomats, pilgrims and tourists; the experiences of emperors and monarchs sit alongside those of revolutionaries and artists, but also those of ordinary people who found themselves in remarkable situations, like the medieval Chinese abbot who was shown round the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris by the King of France himself. Some of the writers seek to provide a straightforward, accurate description of all they have seen, while others concentrate on their subjective experiences of the city and encounters with the inhabitants. Introduced and contextualized by bestselling historian Peter Furtado, each account provides both a vivid portrait of a distant place and time and an insight into those who journeyed there. The result is a book that delves into the splendours and stories that exist beyond conventional guidebooks and websites.

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers; In Three Volumes

Author : James Augustus St. John
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387306393
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of Celebrated Travellers; In Three Volumes written by James Augustus St. John and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660

Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521200042
Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660 written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-08-29 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

The Lady Travellers Guide To Scoundrels And Other Gentlemen

Author : Victoria Alexander
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1489248420
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (892 download)

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Book Synopsis The Lady Travellers Guide To Scoundrels And Other Gentlemen by : Victoria Alexander

Download or read book The Lady Travellers Guide To Scoundrels And Other Gentlemen written by Victoria Alexander and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on the breathtaking romantic adventures of The Lady Travelers Society in the brand–new series by No.1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Alexander Really, it's too much to expect any normal man to behave like a staid accountant in order to inherit the fortune he deserves to support the lifestyle of an earl. So when Derek Saunders's favorite elderly aunt and her ill–conceived – and possibly fraudulent – Lady Travelers Society loses one of their members, what's a man to do but step up to the challenge? Now he's escorting the world's most maddening woman to the world's most romantic city to find her missing relative. While India Prendergast only suspects his organisation defrauds gullible travelers, she's certain a man with as scandalous a reputation as Derek Saunders cannot be trusted any farther than the distance around his very broad shoulders. As she struggles not to be distracted by his wicked smile and the allure of Paris, instead of finding a lost lady traveler, India just may lose her head, her luggage and her heart.

A Contents-subject Index to General and Periodical Literature

Author : Alfred Cotgreave
Publisher : London : E. Stock
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Contents-subject Index to General and Periodical Literature written by Alfred Cotgreave and published by London : E. Stock. This book was released on 1900 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 1

Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Tacet Books
ISBN 13 : 3968587553
Total Pages : 5999 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 1 written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 5999 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - H.P. Lovecraft, - Edgar Allan Poe, - Arthur Conan Doyle, - Katherine Mansfield, - Jack London, - Guy de Maupassant, - Virginia Woolf, F. - Scott Fitzgerald, - Edith Wharton, - Stephen Crane, - Susan Glaspell, - Kate Chopin, - Laura E. Richards, - Alice Dunbar-Nelson, - Louisa May Alcott, - Hans Christian Andersen, - Charles Dickens, - Nathaniel Hawthorne, - Henry James, - Mark Twain, - Charlotte Perkins, - Elizabeth Gaskell, - Herman Melville, - James Joyce, - Leo Tolstoy, - Nikolai Gogol, - Anton Chekhov, - Fyodor Dostoevsky, - Maxim Gorky, - Leonid Andreyev, - Ivan Turgenev, - Joseph Conrad, - Aleksander Pushkin, - Robert Louis Stevenson, - Robert E. Howard, - G. K. Chesterton, - Edgar Wallace, - Arthur Machen, - Ambrose Bierce, - Talbot Mundy, - Abraham Merritt, - Zane Grey, - Edgar Rice Burroughs, - Oscar Wilde, - Rudyard Kipling, - E.T.A. Hoffman, - Bram Stoker, - H.G. Wells, - Franz Kafta - Washington Irving.

Gideon the Cutpurse

Author : Linda Buckley-Archer
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416915256
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Gideon the Cutpurse written by Linda Buckley-Archer and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for the weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to 1763 England where they are befriended by a reformed cutpurse. 200,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo.

Australia Twice Traversed: Volume 1

Author : Ernest Giles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108039006
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Australia Twice Traversed: Volume 1 written by Ernest Giles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of Australian explorer Ernest Powell Giles' five expeditions in South Australia, first published in 1889.

The History of the Study of Landforms: Volume 1 - Geomorphology Before Davis (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Richard J. Chorley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135228639
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Study of Landforms: Volume 1 - Geomorphology Before Davis (Routledge Revivals) written by Richard J. Chorley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This re-issue, first published in 1964, is the first of a seminal series analysing the development of the study of landforms, from both the geographical and geological point of view, with especial emphasis upon fluvial geomorphology. Volume 1 treats the subject up to the first important statement of the cycle of erosion by W. M. Davis in 1889, and attempts to identify the most significant currents of geomorphic thought, integrating them into the broader contemporary intellectual frameworks with which they were associated. As well as dealing with such key figures as Werner, De Saussure, Hutton, Playfair, Buckland, lyell, Agassiz, Ramsay, Dana, Peschel, Powell, Gilbert and Davis, attention is also given to many less important contributions by American, British and continental workers. A spirited biographical treatment, attractively set off by contemporary portraits, diagrams and sketches, will make this book of great interest to the historian of science, and indeed to the general reader, as well as to the student and scholar in geomorphology, hydrology and any other earth science.

Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology, Volume 1

Author : Jason Thompson
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617976369
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology, Volume 1 written by Jason Thompson and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later. This, the first of a three-volume survey of the history of Egyptology, follows the fascination with ancient Egypt from antiquity until 1881, tracing the recovery of ancient Egypt and its impact on the human imagination in a saga filled with intriguing mysteries, great discoveries, and scholarly creativity. Wonderful Things affirms that the history of ancient Egypt has proved continually fascinating, but it also demonstrates that the history of Egyptology is no less so. Only by understanding how Egyptology has developed can we truly understand the Egyptian past.

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers

Author : James Augustus St. John
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 336893676X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of Celebrated Travellers written by James Augustus St. John and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (Of 3)

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (Of 3) written by John Ruskin and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thus much, however, it is necessary for the reader to know, that, when I planned the work, I had materials by me, collected at different times of sojourn in Venice during the last seventeen years, which it seemed to me might be arranged with little difficulty, and which I believe to be of value as illustrating the history of Southern Gothic. Requiring, however, some clearer assurance respecting certain points of chronology, I went to Venice finally in the autumn of 1849, not doubting but that the dates of the principal edifices of the ancient city were either ascertained, or ascertainable without extraordinary research." -Preface