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The Oxford Book of Travel Stories

Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Travel Stories written by Patricia Craig and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel, associated as it is with strangeness, marvels, and excitement, has always proved an irresistible subject for writers. The Oxford Book of Travel Stories brings together some of the best short fiction on this most exhilarating of subjects from writers as diverse as Anthony Trollope,Edith Wharton, Ring Lardner, William Trevor, Sylvia Townsend Warner, John Cheever, Beryl Bainbridge and V.S. Pritchett. Readers of this anthology will be able to revel in the atmosphere of 19th-century Palestine, the Riviera of the 1920s, or a cruise down the Nile. There are stories set in far distant locations - China, Australia - and others closer to home, such as Benedict Kiely's entrancing 'A Journey to theSeven Streams'. Most are high-spirited, in keeping with the theme, some are wonderfully funny and one or two productively unsettling, such as Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'. Some deal with the journey itself, and encounters on train or boat; others see travel as a literal rite ofpassage, an escape or a sudden growing-up. All of them illustrate, in various ways, how travel has to do with stimulus, enrichment and a sense of achievement - 'Not fare well,' as T.S. Elliot has it, 'But fare forward, voyagers'.

The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories

Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192781673
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories about time, exploring all the different ways that we can twist and play with time. The stories take in trips to the future, package holidays to the past, visitors from other times with unwelcome messages, a thief with the power to stop time altogether, a man in lovewith someone who died years before he was born, a star fleet that paradoxically caused its own destruction, and many more. With a sure appeal for everyone who likes an exciting, thought-provoking story, as well as fans of science fiction and ghost stories, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of stories to amuse, amaze, and enthral.

The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories

Author : Stewart Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192802293
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories written by Stewart Brown and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean is the source of one of the richest, most accessible, and yet technically adventurous traditions of contemporary world literature. This collection extends beyond the realm of English-speaking writers, to include stories published in Spanish, French, and Dutch. It brings together contributions from major figures such as V. S. Naipaul, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and work from the exciting new generation of Caribbean writers represented by Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid.

The Oxford Book of Exploration

Author : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192805568
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Exploration written by Robin Hanbury-Tenison and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, whom the Sunday Times called the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages, now fully revised and updated. The ultimate in travel writing, these are the words of those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences. Divided into geographical sections, the book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Alexander Von Humboldt, to Africa with Dr David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley, to the Pacific with Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, and to the Poles with Robert Peary and Wally Herbert. Driven by a desire to discover that transcends all other considerations, the vivid writings of these extraordinary people reveal what makes them go beyond the possible and earn the right to be known as explorers.

Doomsday Book

Author : Connie Willis
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0553562738
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Doomsday Book written by Connie Willis and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.

The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories

Author : Tom Shippey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192803818
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories written by Tom Shippey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of classic science fiction short stories features tales by H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clark, Frederik Pohl, Clifford Simak, Brian Aldiss, Ursala K. LeGuin, and many others. Edited by the author of The Road to Middle-Earth. 20,000 first printing.

The Oxford Book of the American South

Author : Edward L. Ayers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195124936
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of the American South written by Edward L. Ayers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers short stories, journalism, and excerpts from novels, diaries, and memoirs by Southern authors.

The Oxford book of travel verse

Author : Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford book of travel verse written by Kevin Crossley-Holland and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Let's Go London, Oxford and Cambridge

Author : Beatrice Franklin
Publisher : Let's Go
ISBN 13 : 9781612370293
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Let's Go London, Oxford and Cambridge written by Beatrice Franklin and published by Let's Go. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to London, Oxford, and Cambridge--Let's Go style. Discover some of the best-kept culinary secrets in London's West End. Pay a visit to Oxford, whose halls have churned out the likes of WH Auden and Albert Einstein, or Emma Thompson's alma mater, Cambridge, where the student--not the tourist--is king. Whether you're visiting for a summer or a semester, there's time to take in all the coolest theaters, galleries, and most spectacular historical landmarks--and without breaking the bank. Let's Go publishes the world's favorite student travel guides, written entirely by Harvard undergraduates. Armed with pens, notebooks, and a few changes of underwear stuffed in their backpacks, our student researchers go across continents, through time zones, and above expectations to seek out invaluable travel experiences for our readers. Let's Go has been on the road for 50 years and counting: We're on a mission to provide our readers with sharp, fresh coverage packed with socially responsible opportunities to go beyond tourism.

The Joys of Travel

Author : Thomas Swick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1634508238
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Joys of Travel written by Thomas Swick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Joys of Travel: And Stories that Illuminate Them is a collection of Thomas Swick’s personal essays on what he has identified as “the seven joys of travel”: anticipation, movement, break from routine, novelty, discovery, emotional connection and heightened appreciation of home. The Joys of Travel awakens readers to pleasures that, as travelers, they may be taking for granted. It also shows non-travelers what they’ve been missing. It offers tips on how people can get the most out of their trips, as well as the titles of travel classics that will not only prepare them for the places they visit but make those places more meaningful once they get there. And it tells, through memories and stories, the tale of someone who has made a living writing about travel. In fact, the story of Thomas Swick’s life as a traveler neatly parallels the examination of a journey from beginning to end. Before you next trip, be it a family vacation or a backpacking tour of Europe, read The Joys of Travel. It will inspire you to get the most out of your time away from home and to get away more often.

Postcards from Oxford

Author : Debotri Dhar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789380905655
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Postcards from Oxford written by Debotri Dhar and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Book of Travel Verse

Author : Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192826947
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (269 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Travel Verse by : Kevin Crossley-Holland

Download or read book The Oxford Book of Travel Verse written by Kevin Crossley-Holland and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems by British travelers reveal their impressions of France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Africa, Asia, and the Americas

Oxford

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192801364
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Oxford written by Jan Morris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Morris has given us a brilliant and thoroughly enjoyable exploration the history, architecture, geography, and culture of one of England's most historic, beautiful, enigmatic and visited cities - Oxford. This is the perfect guide for local historians, visitors to the city, and prospective students of the famous university.

A Writer's Workbook

Author : Caroline Sharp
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 031228621X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book A Writer's Workbook written by Caroline Sharp and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-14 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of years of blood, sweat, and story writing--along with an MFA, some published stories, an optioned screenplay, and a million cups of coffee--"A Writer's Workbook" is Sharp's ingenious collection of exercises to inspire, encourage, warm up and jump-start anyone who writes.

Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery

Author : Peter C. Mancall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195155971
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery written by Peter C. Mancall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a primary source collection of narratives about the travel and discovery in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe in the 16th century.

The Oxford Book of Historical Stories

Author : Michael Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192832085
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Historical Stories written by Michael Cox and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical fiction is as popular today as it was at its birth in the nineteenth century. The imaginative recreation of a period beyond living memory has a power to evoke the past better than any history textbook. The stories in this collection travel in time from pre-history and the ancient Greeks to Regency bucks and Edwardian suffragettes, by way of medieval Europe, the English Civil War and the French Revolution. Emperors and kings, poets and soldiers walk these pages, in tales of intrigue, adventure, mystery and romance. As well as the giants of the genre - Stanley Weyman, Rafael Sabatini, and Georgette Heyer among them - this anthology also includes tales by Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Aldous Huxley, William Faulkner and Marjorie Bowen, and by writers from the golden age of the Victorian magazine. In their choices the editors demonstrate the vitality of a form that cuts across the boundaries of popular and literary fiction to appeal to anyone who enjoys a cracking good read.

Environmental Politics

Author : Corrado Poli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319176145
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Politics written by Corrado Poli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A change in the way humans relate to nature could be the starting point for a new politics, which will also affect relations among humans. A new approach would help to radically transform the production system, not because it is unjust in the usually considered social terms, but because it endangers nature and humanity. So far, the citizens’ grassroots organizations have failed to win broad consensus and political power in the representative institutions. When the time comes to transform the single environmental issue into an electoral platform, environmentalists lose unity and effectiveness since they lack a common political vision and an ensuing strategy. On the other hand European politics is rapidly transforming because the challenge brought by so-called populist movements. We need to transform activists’ shared emotions and attitudes into political ideologies and platforms. Moreover, a new educational process and a new science politics are necessary to reform environmental policy.