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Book Synopsis The Intriguing Life and Ignominious Death of Maurice Benyovszky by : Andrew Drummond
Download or read book The Intriguing Life and Ignominious Death of Maurice Benyovszky written by Andrew Drummond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1790, Maurice Benyovszky’s posthumous memoir was an instant sensation. A tale of exploration and adventure beginning with his daring escape from a Siberian prison and ending with his coronation as King of Madagascar, it was translated into several languages and adapted for the theatre and opera. This book explores the veracity of this memoir and, more broadly, the challenges faced by the explorers of the age and the brutality of colonisation. The self-styled Hungarian Baron Maurice Auguste Aladar Benyovszky, Counsellor to the Duke of Saxony and Colonel in the service of the Queen of Hungary, was in fact only confirmed to have been an officer in a regiment of the Polish Confederation of Bar. While he did escape from Russian captors and subsequently travel to Japan, Formosa, China and Madagascar, many of his exploits were wildly exaggerated or simply invented. Andrew Drummond reveals an alternative picture of events by looking at statements from Benyovszky’s travelling companions and sceptical officials as well as contemporary documents from the places he claimed to have visited, untangling the truth behind his stories and examining what these stories can nonetheless tell us about the era in which Benyovszky lived. Witty and engagingly written, this book is fascinating reading for anyone interested in eighteenth-century colonial history and the story of early European and Russian explorers.
Book Synopsis The Intriguing Life and Ignominious Death of Maurice Benyovszky by : Andrew Drummond
Download or read book The Intriguing Life and Ignominious Death of Maurice Benyovszky written by Andrew Drummond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1790, Maurice Benyovszky’s posthumous memoir was an instant sensation. A tale of exploration and adventure beginning with his daring escape from a Siberian prison and ending with his coronation as King of Madagascar, it was translated into several languages and adapted for the theatre and opera. This book explores the veracity of this memoir and, more broadly, the challenges faced by the explorers of the age and the brutality of colonisation. The self-styled Hungarian Baron Maurice Auguste Aladar Benyovszky, Counsellor to the Duke of Saxony and Colonel in the service of the Queen of Hungary, was in fact only confirmed to have been an officer in a regiment of the Polish Confederation of Bar. While he did escape from Russian captors and subsequently travel to Japan, Formosa, China and Madagascar, many of his exploits were wildly exaggerated or simply invented. Andrew Drummond reveals an alternative picture of events by looking at statements from Benyovszky’s travelling companions and sceptical officials as well as contemporary documents from the places he claimed to have visited, untangling the truth behind his stories and examining what these stories can nonetheless tell us about the era in which Benyovszky lived. Witty and engagingly written, this book is fascinating reading for anyone interested in eighteenth-century colonial history and the story of early European and Russian explorers.
Book Synopsis The Russian Discovery of Japan, 1670–1800 by : David N. Wells
Download or read book The Russian Discovery of Japan, 1670–1800 written by David N. Wells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period of the Tokugawa shogunate’s seclusion policy from about 1630 onwards there was very little European interaction with the Japanese except through the restricted Dutch presence at Nagasaki. During this period, however, Russians exploring Siberia and the Russian Far East came into contact with Japan, and further exploration and information collecting was encouraged by the Russian government, culminating in the first official Russian Embassy to Japan in 1792. This book examines the Russian discourse on Japan in the period, tracing the gradual accumulation of knowledge, and the development of Russian views, sometimes distorted, about Japan. The book includes key historical documents, some translated into English for the first time. The book is a prequel to the author’s previous book, Russian Views of Japan, 1792–1913: An Anthology of Early Travel Writing.
Book Synopsis A Quite Impossible Proposal by : Andrew Drummond
Download or read book A Quite Impossible Proposal written by Andrew Drummond and published by Origin. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of An Abridged History, “a detailed examination of an overlooked chapter in Scotland’s transport history” (The Scotsman). In the 1890s, the people of north-west Scotland grew tired of Government Commissions sent to consider a railway to Ullapool. Despite rock-solid arguments in favor of such a railway, neither government nor the big railway companies lifted a finger to build one. Against the recommendations of its own advisers, the Scottish Office dismissed the project as “a quite impossible proposal.” This book tells the whole sorry tale of the attempt to improve transportation in the north-west Highlands and the resulting government inquiries, set against the region’s economic and social problems and civil unrest in the crofting communities. Stories, facts and figures have been unearthed from the archives of government departments and railway companies, from local people’s letters and petitions, from contemporary newspapers and from the plans prepared for the hoped-for railways. Other unbuilt railways to the north-west coast are also described. But this story is not just about planned railways that were never built. It is about the frustrations of the people of the Highlands in the face of government incompetence, railway-company obstructionism, local rivalries and the struggle against the historical injustice of land ownership. “Delves deep into the archives to reveal an astonishing story of establishment incompetence and indifference—and some west coast skullduggery—contriving to thwart the energy and enthusiasm of locals keen to share in the benefits which railways had brought to other Highland communities.” —RailScot
Book Synopsis Images of China in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings (1720-1949) by : Tomasz Ewertowski
Download or read book Images of China in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings (1720-1949) written by Tomasz Ewertowski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Images of China in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings (1720-1949), Tomasz Ewertowski examines how Polish and Serbian travelers from the 18th to the mid-20th century described China, showing various factors which influenced their representations of the Middle Kingdom.
Download or read book Play Among Books written by Miro Roman and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.
Book Synopsis Poland in a Colonial World Order by : Piotr Puchalski
Download or read book Poland in a Colonial World Order written by Piotr Puchalski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poland in a Colonial World Order is a study of the interwar Polish state and empire building project in a changing world of empires, nation-states, dominions, protectorates, mandates, and colonies. Drawing from a wide range of sources spanning two continents and five countries, Piotr Puchalski examines how Polish elites looked to expansion in South America and Africa as a solution to both real problems, such as industrial backwardness, and perceived issues, such as the supposed overrepresentation of Jews in "liberal professions." He charts how, in partnership with other European powers and international institutions such as the League of Nations, Polish leaders made attempts to channel emigration to South America, to establish direct trade with Africa, to expedite national minorities to far-away places, and to tap into colonial resources around the globe. Puchalski demonstrates the intersection between such national policies and larger processes taking place at the time, including the internationalist turn of colonialism and the global fascination with technocratic solutions. Carefully researched, the volume is key reading for scholars and advanced students of twentieth-century European history.
Book Synopsis MEMOIRS AND TRAVELS. by : Maurycy August Beniowski
Download or read book MEMOIRS AND TRAVELS. written by Maurycy August Beniowski and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Travel Writing by : Nandini Das
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Travel Writing written by Nandini Das and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together original contributions from scholars across the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of this genre.
Book Synopsis Novgorod the Great by : Andrew Drummond
Download or read book Novgorod the Great written by Andrew Drummond and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novgorod the Great - City of a Thousand Saints, August 1833. A young widow and a prosperous merchant encounter each other by chance in an inn kept by a man whose antipathy to all guests is matched only by his violent loathing of poets. But during a night spent in each other's company, filled with dawning hope, revelation, unfortunate accidents and pickled eggs, several remarkable stories unfold. The story of John Cochrane, pedestrian traveller extraordinaire, and deceased husband of the young widow Ksenia; of his infamous father, who spent his life defrauding governments and upsetting Napoleon; of Ksenia Loginova's perilous 6,000 mile journey across Siberia and the unwelcome attentions of a troubadour; of the merchant Horatio who reflects on love, slavery and arithmetic. Among other matters discussed at length in the small hours of the night are carnivorous Bolivian elephants, the questionable motives of travellers, and the impatience of Chernobog, Master of the Infernal Darkness...
Book Synopsis Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky by : Maurice Auguste comte de Benyowsky
Download or read book Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky written by Maurice Auguste comte de Benyowsky and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Books of the Incarceration of the Lady Grange by : Andrew Drummond
Download or read book The Books of the Incarceration of the Lady Grange written by Andrew Drummond and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1739, the Cherub of Desire wrecks her glorious ship upon the remote island of St Kilda. She wades ashore in an understandable fury, leaving her grumbling slaves to mend the Vessel. Her mood is not improved when she stumbles across a wild-haired woman who insists on engaging in a lengthy conversation. This is the Lady Grange, the unfortunate but loving wife of one of Scotland's political elite, kidnapped from Edinburgh by her husband's allies and deposited neatly out of sight upon the island. While her ship is being repaired, the Cherub passes the time in seducing young men and married women, and in trying to avoid the unhappy prisoner. At length, in a fit of unaccustomed charity, she agrees to carry to Edinburgh some letters in which Lady Grange begs her friends to rescue her. The Cherub considers this to be a good excuse for a well-deserved holiday in the bright lights of the big city. But due to encounters with disaffected Highlanders, debauched clan-chiefs, deluded poets and despotic lawyers, her holiday does not go well. Not at all well.
Download or read book Elephantina written by Andrew Drummond and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elephant sighs forlornly and dies by the side of the road, just outside Dundee: It is April 1706 and discussions are beginning for the proposed Act of Union. Closet Jacobite sympathiser Dr Patrick Blair, an ambitious local surgeon-apothecary, embarks on a mission to become the first man in Britain to dissect an elephant. He employs Gilbert Orum, harassed debtor, surgeon's assistant and skilled copper engraver, to help him. After the dissection, the skeleton is reassembled as the centre-piece for a new 'Hall of Rarities' in the town and Blair writes up his findings for the Royal Society in London, hoping to make his name as a great scientist. Ten years later, however, Blair languishes in a dungeon in London, condemned to death for his participation in the 1715 Jacobite rebellion. Gilbert Orum grasps the opportunity to write his own account of the dissection of the unfortunate elephant.
Book Synopsis The Russian Push Toward Japan by : George Alexander Lensen
Download or read book The Russian Push Toward Japan written by George Alexander Lensen and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Hand-book of Volapük by : Andrew Drummond
Download or read book A Hand-book of Volapük written by Andrew Drummond and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1891, two matters greatly excite the inhabitants of Edinburgh: the decennial Population Census and the Annual General Meeting of the Edinburgh Society for the Propagation of a Universal Language. The General Secretary, Mr Justice, is a militant champion of the highly popular language Volapk; but he is locked in a battle for with Dr Bosman, a shameless apologist for Esperanto. Mr Justice travels the east coast of Scotland in part conducting classes in the grammar and vocabulary of Volapk. En route, he recruits a secret ally an ill-behaved old gentleman who has promised to bring the majority over to the Volapk camp.
Book Synopsis The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists and Plug-drawers by : Frank Peel
Download or read book The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists and Plug-drawers written by Frank Peel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1968 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis British Women Travellers by : Sutapa Dutta
Download or read book British Women Travellers written by Sutapa Dutta and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Continent, framing "Britishness". Colonising the French : Elizabeth Inchbald's cultural appropriation / Ben P. Robertson -- Views of an "overthrown" kingdom : Britishness and otherness in The Spanish journal of Elizabeth Holland / Antonio Calvo Maturana -- Roman monuments, ruins and remains : British women travellers' perception of historical heritage in the early 19th century / Barbara Tetti -- On terrains of the other empire : Mary Holderness' account of her residence in early 19th-century Crimea / Nataliia Voloshkova -- In the Colonies, defining "non-British". The politics of feasting : Janet Schaw's sensory experience of the West Indies / Georgina Elisabeth Munn -- Creating a "more popular work" : the lasting influence of Maria Graham's Journal of a residence in India (1812) / Lacy Marschalk -- The Memsahibs' gaze : representation of the Zenana in India / Sutapa Dutta -- Gossip, mosquitos, and "well-made" men : Isabella Fane's vision of colonial India / Shannon Derby -- "Servant of the cross" : identity, travel and colonial culture in the letters of Mary Moffat in South Africa / Michelle Adler -- An "honorary man" in the Holy Land? : Mary Eliza Rogers, gender, and British Protestant imperialism / Sarah Irving -- In the settler colonies, furthering the "Other" British. "English, yet essentially un-English" : female constructions of imperial belonging in Melbourne, 1850-1870 / Sophie Cooper -- In search of the romantic aesthetic : British women travellers in 19th-century America / Justyna Fruzińska -- Carriage and canoe : the material vessels of Anna Brownell Jameson's voyage in upper Canada / Sophie Anne Edwards.
