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Book Synopsis The Imaginary Sea Voyage by : James J. Bloom
Download or read book The Imaginary Sea Voyage written by James J. Bloom and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, humankind has wondered what is ""out there"" and has embarked on countless voyages to find out. This book traces the history and literature of the imaginary voyage - stories of mariners journeying through uncharted waters to find strange and marvelous sights. Through the overlapping spheres of history, geography, cosmography and literary criticism, this book examines the mystique of what lies just over the horizon.
Book Synopsis The Sea Voyage Narrative by : Robert Foulke
Download or read book The Sea Voyage Narrative written by Robert Foulke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Odyssey to Moby Dick to The Old Man and the Sea, the long tradition of sea voyage narratives is comprehensively explained here supported by discussions of key texts.
Download or read book Sea Monsters written by Joseph Nigg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina. In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who in 1539 charted these fantastic marine animals in his influential map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina. In Sea Monsters, mythologist Joseph Nigg brings readers face-to-face with these creatures and other magnificent components of Magnus’s map. Nearly two meters wide in total, the map’s nine wood-block panels comprise the largest and first realistic portrayal of the region. But in addition to its important geographic significance, Magnus’s map goes beyond cartography to scenes both domestic and mystic. Close to shore, Magnus shows humans interacting with common sea life—boats struggling to stay afloat, merchants trading, children swimming, and fisherman pulling lines. But from the offshore deeps rise some of the most terrifying sea creatures imaginable—like sea swine, whales as large as islands, and the Kraken. In this book, Nigg draws on Magnus’s own text to further describe and illuminate these inventive scenes and to flesh out the stories of the monsters. Sea Monsters is a stunning tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters, and the mythic. “[A] beautiful new exploration of the Carta Marina.”—Wired
Book Synopsis Virtual Voyages by : Paul Longley Arthur
Download or read book Virtual Voyages written by Paul Longley Arthur and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.
Book Synopsis Hemispheres and Stratospheres by : Kevin L. Cope
Download or read book Hemispheres and Stratospheres written by Kevin L. Cope and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmission and exchange over distance; and on distance as a topic in science, a theme in literature, and a central issue in modern research methods. Through studies of landscape gardens, architecture, imaginary voyages, transcontinental philosophical exchange, and cosmological poetry, Hemispheres and Stratospheres unfurls the early history of a distance culture that influences our own era of global information exchange, long-haul flights, colossal skyscrapers, and space tourism. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Book Synopsis The Sea in the Literary Imagination by : Ekaterina V. Kobeleva
Download or read book The Sea in the Literary Imagination written by Ekaterina V. Kobeleva and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores nautical themes in a variety of literary contexts from multiple cultures. Including contributors from five continents, it emphasizes the universality of human experience with the sea, while focusing on literature that spans a millennium, stretching from medieval romance to the twenty-first-century reimagining of classic literary texts in film. These fresh essays engage in discussions of literature from the UK, the USA, India, Chile, Turkey, Spain, Japan, Colombia, and the Caribbean. Scholars of maritime literature will find the collection interesting for the unique insights it offers on individual literary texts, while general readers will be intrigued by the interconnectedness that it reveals in human experience with the sea.
Book Synopsis The Eastern Traveller's Guide. Diary and Souvenir of Voyage for Passengers to Egypt, India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania by : Frank Charlton
Download or read book The Eastern Traveller's Guide. Diary and Souvenir of Voyage for Passengers to Egypt, India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania written by Frank Charlton and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chambers's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great South Sea by : Glyndwr Williams
Download or read book The Great South Sea written by Glyndwr Williams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, English buccaneers, privateers, and naval expeditions sought fame and fortune in the distant reaches of the South Sea. Beginning with the voyage of Francis Drake in the 1570s and continuing through that of George Anson in the 1740s, a series of predatory English adventurers pursued Spanish treasure, and for a few the dream of riches came true. For most, the voyages ended in disappointment, and sometimes death. This engrossing book investigates these maritime adventures and how they were described in popular accounts of the time--accounts that affected English consciousness and perceptions of the wider world and that influenced the planning and nature of the later great voyages of James Cook and others. Glyndwr Williams, a leading expert on the exploration of the Pacific Ocean, draws on printed accounts of South Sea voyages as well as unpublished records--buccaneer journals, expedition papers, and government documents from public and private archives. For English seamen preying on Spanish trade and treasure, the South Sea was limited to the waters lapping the shores of Chile, Peru, and Mexico. But the vision was wider for others, Williams reveals. Cartographers at home in England, untrammeled by the constraints and dangers of actual voyaging, produced speculative maps with a vast Terra Australis Incognita, with fabulous Islands of Solomon, and with a promised short passage from Atlantic to Pacific. Satirical and utopian writers from Joseph Hall to Jonathan Swift found ample space in the wide ocean for their fictional travelers. And contemporary published voyage accounts--marvelous, though not necessarily reliable--further blurred the line between real and imaginary, contributing to the alluring, exotic image of the South Sea that took root in English folk memory and long outlasted the age of the buccaneers.
Book Synopsis Voyage with the Vikings by : Paul McCusker
Download or read book Voyage with the Vikings written by Paul McCusker and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1 million sold in series! While visiting Mr. Whittaker at Whit’s Soda Shoppe, Beth and Patrick find a mysterious letter in the Imagination Station requesting a Viking sunstone. The letter is old and says that someone named Albert will be imprisoned if the sunstone isn’t found. Mr. Whittaker sends cousins Patrick and Beth to Greenland circa 1000. On their quest for the sunstone, the cousins meet Vikings Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson—and find the sunstone as they join Leif on his first voyage to North America. But the adventure is just beginning, for when they return to Mr. Whittaker’s workshop with the sunstone, there is another note waiting for them, requesting a silver goblet. Join Patrick and Beth as they continue their travel to various lands and time in the Imagination Station book series.
Download or read book Chamber's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mapping Men and Empire by : Richard Phillips
Download or read book Mapping Men and Empire written by Richard Phillips and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis The Bolenius Readers by : Emma Miller Bolenius
Download or read book The Bolenius Readers written by Emma Miller Bolenius and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bering's Voyages: Steller's journal of the sea voyage from Kamchatka to America and return on the second expedition, 1741-1742; translated and in part annotated by Leonhard Stejneger by : Frank Alfred Golder
Download or read book Bering's Voyages: Steller's journal of the sea voyage from Kamchatka to America and return on the second expedition, 1741-1742; translated and in part annotated by Leonhard Stejneger written by Frank Alfred Golder and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism by : Graeme Harper
Download or read book Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism written by Graeme Harper and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together for the first time original work from international specialists, this book assesses the role and character of comedy and fantasy in colonial societies from India to Ireland, Australia to Cuba, Africa to North America. There are cross-cultural comparisons and consideration of both imperial responses and colonized resistance. The book deals with oral as well as written traditions, the history of comic and fantastic discourse, visual, theatrical and literary representations as well as historical and cultural accounts.
Download or read book Writing Travel written by John Zilcosky and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a broad range of texts and travellers from across the world, the contributors discuss canonical authors such as Homer, Goethe, and Baudelaire, alongside lesser known writers such as Theodor Herzl, Hans Erich Nossack, and William Gibson. This theoretically rich volume draws connections between travel and narrative, and provides powerful insights into the relationship between travel and the spoken act of storytelling, as well as the more ambivalent act of story writing.
Download or read book The Practitioner written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
