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Book Synopsis The Imprisoned Traveler by : Keith Crook
Download or read book The Imprisoned Traveler written by Keith Crook and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Imprisoned Traveler is a fascinating portrait of a unique book, its context, and its elusive author. Joseph Forsyth, traveling through an Italy plundered by Napoleon, was unjustly imprisoned in 1803 by the French as an enemy alien. Out of his arduous eleven-year “detention” came his only book, Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy (1813). Written as an (unsuccessful) appeal for release, praised by Forsyth’s contemporaries for its originality and fine taste, it is now recognized as a classic of Romantic period travel writing. Keith Crook, in this authoritative study, evokes the peculiar miseries that Forsyth endured in French prisons, reveals the significance of Forsyth’s encounters with scientists, poets, scholars, and ordinary Italians, and analyzes his judgments on Italian artworks. He uncovers how Forsyth’s allusiveness functions as a method of covert protest against Napoleon and reproduces the hitherto unpublished correspondence between the imprisoned Forsyth and his brother. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Book Synopsis Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843 by : Misty Krueger
Download or read book Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843 written by Misty Krueger and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a range of historical and literary works. While at one time transatlantic studies concentrated predominantly on men’s travels, this volume highlights the resilience of women who ventured voluntarily and by force across the Atlantic—some seeking mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, and freedom, and others surviving subjugation, capture, and enslavement. The essays gathered here concern themselves with the fictional and the historical, national and geographic location, racial and ethnic identities, and the configuration of the transatlantic world in increasingly taught texts such as The Female American and The Woman of Colour, as well as less familiar material such as Merian’s writing on the insects of Surinam and Falconbridge’s travels to Sierra Leone. Intersectional in its approach, and with an afterword by Eve Tavor Bannet, this essential collection will prove indispensable as it provides fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts and women’s travel therein across the long eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis Nyarai: Traveler of the Circle by : Noor Al-Shanti
Download or read book Nyarai: Traveler of the Circle written by Noor Al-Shanti and published by Noor Al-Shanti. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain by : Ian Mortimer
Download or read book The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain written by Ian Mortimer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellington. This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; the sartorial elegance of Beau Brummell and the poetic licence of Lord Byron; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo; the threat of revolution and the Peterloo massacre. In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveler's Guides, Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history: the Regency, or Georgian England. A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behavior, it was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition that reflected unprecedented social, economic, and political change. And like all periods in history, it was an age of many contradictions—where Beethoven's thundering Fifth Symphony could premier in the same year that saw Jane Austen craft the delicate sensitivities of Persuasion. Once more, Ian Mortimer takes us on a thrilling journey to the past, revealing what people ate, drank, and wore; where they shopped and how they amused themselves; what they believed in, and what they were afraid of. Conveying the sights, sound,s and smells of the Regency period, this is history at its most exciting, physical, visceral—the past not as something to be studied but as lived experience.
Download or read book A Sliver of Light written by Shane Bauer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three young Americans describe the time spent in captivity in Iran's infamous Evin Prison after they unknowingly crossed the border while hiking on vacation and were accused of espionage by Iranian Border Patrol. 30,000 first printing.
Book Synopsis Old Spain and New Spain by : David Henn
Download or read book Old Spain and New Spain written by David Henn and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first, book-length study of the six travel narratives published by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literatures. Preliminary chapters focus on technical and thematic aspects of travel-writing, and on the author's approach to the genre. Cela's travel works, which appeared between 1948 and 1986, are examined in turn, with a focus on the construction of the narratives and also on the themes that are developed in each of them. There is an assessment of the author's treatment of topographical, cultural, historical, and social material in his accounts of the journeys he made through various areas and regions of Spain, as well as a consideration of the way in which these narratives reflect changes taking place in Spain during the Franco regime and in the decade following the dictator's death. David Henn teaches modern Spanish fiction, drama, and travel literature at University College London.
Book Synopsis Traveler’S Tale — First Book: Discoverings by : Roger Fiola
Download or read book Traveler’S Tale — First Book: Discoverings written by Roger Fiola and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelers Tale is an adventure story. In this series, Jack Castro, a contemporary man entering middle age, feels that something is missing from his successful business and family life. Although living on the idyllic central coast of California should be enough, he senses something more awaiting him. Several triggering events spur him suddenly and deeply into the first-century Levant, where a mysterious and beautiful guide leads him into direct encounters with the holiest and the unholiest of biblical characters. In the face of these experiences or what he believes are true experiences Jack discovers the Traveler he is. This catalyzes profound changes in him, changes that cannot be reversed or even stopped.
Book Synopsis Traveler’s Tale— Fourth Book by : Roger Fiola
Download or read book Traveler’s Tale— Fourth Book written by Roger Fiola and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-10-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this latest book of the Traveler’s Tale series, Jack Castro again encounters his friend, Yeshua, just after the Crucifixion, staying with him at the Resurrection, and remaining with the Followers for fifty days until their awakening. The series is a readable and thought-provoking work of spiritual fiction, yet these four books are not traditionally “Christian”. They remain a continuing effort, using story, to lead readers into personally encountering and connecting with the Divine, by whatever name they know Him/Her.
Book Synopsis Traveler’S Tale—Second Book: by : Roger Fiola
Download or read book Traveler’S Tale—Second Book: written by Roger Fiola and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Travelers Tale First Book: Discoverings: In Travelers Tale, Roger Fiola has produced the equivalent of an alchemical experiment. Mixing historical knowledge, imagination, and the anxieties of our broken age, he brings the reader to the reality of Christs presence. This first volume of a narrative series shows how the spiritual journey can be conducted, and how far it can lead. ~ Bruce Chilton, Author of numerous books on the historical Jesus and Scripture including: Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography, Visions of the Apocalypse: Receptions of Johns Revelation in Western Imagination. Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College, Rector of the Church of St John the Evangelist. Travelers Tale First Book: Discoverings is at once a serious dive into issues of faith and truth and a compelling tour de force dialogue with the pivotal figures in the origins of Christianity. On his journey of discovery, Jack Castros questions and doubts are Everymans but his journey of discovery in this first volume is unique, a fascinating trip through ancient destinations with characters we have heard of but never known with such depth and intimacy. Its a wild ride through the magic and mystery of a sacred and powerful time, loaded with wisdom and wit. ~ Ellen Gunter, Author, Earth Calling: A Climate Change Handbook for the 21st Century
Book Synopsis The Lives of Celebrated Travelers by : James Augustus St. John
Download or read book The Lives of Celebrated Travelers written by James Augustus St. John and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kalila and Dimna by : Nasrullah Munshi
Download or read book Kalila and Dimna written by Nasrullah Munshi and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This masterful translation of one of the most popular books of world literature makes available to an English readership the animal tales known collectively as Kalila and Dimna. Named after the two jackals of Pancatantra fame, this collection of stories is based on a 12th-century Persian translation of an 8th-century original Arabic rendition by Ibn al-Muqaffa‘. Set within a frame narrative of counsels given to the Raja of India by his Brahmin minister, the engaging tales about cats and mice, storks and crabs, tortoises and geese, owls and crows, and princes and ascetics, function as cautionary illustrations of human predicaments and all-too-human vices and virtues. Far from being a collection of children’s fables, Kalila and Dimna is a Machiavellian mirror for princes containing advice on how to preserve oneself from one’s enemies and get ahead at court and in life. The dialogues that constitute the bulk of the narrative harbor a dramatic immediacy, exerting a powerful effect even on a modern-day reader." —Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto
Book Synopsis The Night Travelers by : Armando Lucas Correa
Download or read book The Night Travelers written by Armando Lucas Correa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of the “timely must-read” (People) The German Girl. Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her against Hitler’s deadly ideology of Aryan purity. But as she grows, it becomes more and more difficult to keep Lilith hidden so Ally sets in motion a dangerous and desperate plan to send her daughter across the ocean to safety. Havana, 1958: Now an adult, Lilith has few memories of her mother or her childhood in Germany. Besides, she’s too excited for her future with her beloved Martin, a Cuban pilot with strong ties to the Batista government. But as the flames of revolution ignite, Lilith and her newborn daughter, Nadine, find themselves at a terrifying crossroads. Berlin, 1988: As a scientist in Berlin, Nadine is dedicated to ensuring the dignity of the remains of all those who were murdered by the Nazis. Yet she has spent her entire lifetime avoiding the truth about her own family’s history. It takes her daughter, Luna, to encourage Nadine to uncover the truth about the choices her mother and grandmother made to ensure the survival of their children. And it will fall to Luna to come to terms with a shocking betrayal that changes everything she thought she knew about her family’s past. Separated by time but united by sacrifice, four women embark on journeys of self-discovery and find themselves to be living testaments to the power of motherly love.
Book Synopsis Harper's Hand-Book for Travelers in Europe and The East by : W. Pembroke Fetridge
Download or read book Harper's Hand-Book for Travelers in Europe and The East written by W. Pembroke Fetridge and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Being a guide through Great Britain and Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, Sicily, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Switzerland, Tyrol, Spain, Russia, Denmark, and Sweden. Fourth Year.
Book Synopsis Harper's Hand-book for Travelers in Europe and the East by : William Pembroke Fetridge
Download or read book Harper's Hand-book for Travelers in Europe and the East written by William Pembroke Fetridge and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Handbook for Travelers in Syria and Palestine... by : Josias Leslie Porter
Download or read book A Handbook for Travelers in Syria and Palestine... written by Josias Leslie Porter and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travelers' Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
