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The Last Cruise

Author : Kate Christensen
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307951111
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Last Cruise written by Kate Christensen and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950s ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage—a retro cruise from Long Beach to Hawaii and back—before heading to the scrapyard. For the guests on board, it’s a chance to experience a bygone era of decadent luxury, complete with fine dining, classic highballs, string quartets, and sophisticated jazz. Smoking is allowed but not cell phones—or children, for that matter. But this is the second decade of an uncertain new millennium, not the sunny, heedless mid-twentieth century, and certain disquieting signs of strife and malfunction above and below deck intrude on the festivities, throwing a trio of strangers together in an unexpected and startling test of character.

Travel and Transformation

Author : Garth Lean
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317006585
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Travel and Transformation written by Garth Lean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives. What is surprising, however, is that this association has, on the whole, remained relatively underexplored and unchallenged, with little in the way of a corpus of academic literature surrounding these themes. Instead, much of the literature to date has focused upon describing and categorising tourism and travel experiences from a supply-side perspective, with travellers themselves defined in terms of their motivations and interests. While the tourism field can lay claim to several significant milestone contributions, there have been few recent attempts at a rigorous re-theorization of the issues arising from the travel/transformation nexus. The opportunity to explore the socio-cultural dimensions of transformation through travel has thus far been missed. Bringing together geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers, philosophers, anthropologists, visual researchers, literary scholars and heritage researchers, this volume explores what it means to transform through travel in a modern, mobile world. In doing so, it draws upon a wide variety of traveller perspectives - including tourists, backpackers, lifestyle travellers, migrants, refugees, nomads, walkers, writers, poets, virtual travellers and cosmetic surgery patients - to unpack a cultural phenomenon that has captured the imagination since the very first works of Western literature.

Globalized Nostalgia

Author : Christina M. Ceisel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042995168X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Globalized Nostalgia written by Christina M. Ceisel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Globalized Nostalgia, Christina Ceisel shows how national identity is being remade for the global marketplace. Through media, cultural events, foodways, and personal narratives, we see how notions of the past are mobilized towards varied political, economic, and cultural ends. In Galicia, Spain, Ceisel points towards tourism as one mode of cosmopolitan engagement, revisiting food festivals, wine tours, fishing excursions and reality television shows. She identifies globalized nostalgia as a feeling deeply connected to national identity – that these ‘performances’ of tourist activity rely on claims to an authentic past based on "heritage" for value to the consumer. While such strategies work to brand the nation, Ceisel demonstrates how they may also be employed towards emancipation and an inclusive participatory democracy. Placing her own lived experience within the context of our historical present, relying on interpretive methods, including performance autoethnography, Ceisel highlights the tensions embedded in contemporary transnational cultural politics. Through the development of innovative methodological tools, Ceisel points towards new ways of thinking about the politics of belonging. Ultimately, Ceisel argues that we need to reorient our understandings of authenticity and heritage to accommodate the realities of hybridity and diaspora.

Mark Twain's Travel Literature

Author : Harold H. Hellwig
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476600023
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Travel Literature written by Harold H. Hellwig and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study analyzes major concepts in the travel literature of Mark Twain and notes how his oeuvre (including his classic works of fiction) revolves around travel as a central issue. The book focuses especially on his representations of time, place, and identity in the travel works Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Life on The Mississippi, and Following the Equator. All receive an in-depth analysis, noting Twain's strong sense of nostalgia for the disappearing American frontier, his growing concern over the assimilation of Native American cultures, and his continual search for a sense of personal and national identity. One appendix provides a complete list of the travel literature contained in Twain's personal library.

Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture

Author : A. Colley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230373119
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture written by A. Colley and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-10-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a group of Victorian British writers and artists (Darwin, Stevenson, Gaskell, Ruskin, Pater, Brown and Turner) whose work emerges from recollection and whose texts embody the experience of nostalgia. The study concentrates on the longing for a past that traverses the span of these writers' and artists' own lifetime. It examines their particular experience of the nostalgic moment and provides an occasion to re-examine the idea of nostalgia and to reflect on the act of recollection.

Semiologies of Travel

Author : David H. T. Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521838535
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Semiologies of Travel written by David H. T. Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Atlas of Emotion

Author : Giuliana Bruno
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786633221
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Atlas of Emotion written by Giuliana Bruno and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architecture Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map the cultural terrain of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative blend of words and pictures, Giuliana Bruno emphasizes the connections between “sight” and “site” and “motion” and “emotion.” In so doing, she touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Louise Bourgeois, the filmmaking of Peter Greenaway and Michelangelo Antonioni, media archaeology and the origins of the museum, and her own journeys to her native Naples. Visually luscious and daring in conception, Bruno’s book opens new vistas and understandings at every turn.

Star Trek

Author : Michael J. Dodge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671624927
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Star Trek written by Michael J. Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You're an ensign in the Starfleet and you've been assigned to the Enterprise! With Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, you'll explore amazing new worlds. You might rescue an alien race from a deadly disease, or do battle with a Klingon spy, or time travel to another universe. If you make the right choices, you could be a hero and save the Enterprise. But be careful, or you, Captain Kirk, and Mr. Spock could all be in terrible danger. Of course, if you don't like the way your story is going, you can always go back and start a new one"--Back cover

Relocated Memories

Author : Marguérite Corporaal
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815653980
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Relocated Memories written by Marguérite Corporaal and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Famine radically transformed Ireland; nearly one million people of the rural countryside died, and the eviction of farmers led to massive emigration. The Famine encouraged anti-English, nationalist sentiments, and this trauma is seen as pivotal in the development of an Irish anticolonial consciousness and in the identity formation of transatlantic Irish communities. In Relocated Memories, Corporaal challenges the persistent assumption that the first decades after the Great Irish Famine were marked by a pervasive silence on the catastrophe. Discussing works by well-known authors such as William Carleton and Anthony Trollope as well as more obscure texts by, among others, Dillon O’Brien and Susanna Meredith, Corporaal charts the reconfigurations of memory in fiction across generations and national borders.

A Turbulent Voyage

Author : Floyd Windom Hayes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780939693528
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book A Turbulent Voyage written by Floyd Windom Hayes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is designed to introduce the reader to the contours and content of African American Studies. The text and readings included here not only impart information but seek as their foremost goal to precipitate in the reader an awareness of the complex and changing character of the African American experience--its origins, developments, and future challenges. The book aims to engage readers in the critical analysis of a broad spectrum of subjects, themes, and issues--ancient and medieval Africa, Western European domination and African enslavement, resistance to oppression, African American expressive culture, family and educational policies, economic and political matters, and the importance of ideas. The materials included in this anthology comprise a discussion of some of the fundamental problems and prospects related to the African American experience that deserve attention in a course in African American Studies. African American Studies is a broad field concerned with the examination of the black experience, both historically and presently. Hence, the subjects, themes, and issues included in this text transcend the narrow confines of traditional academic disciplinary boundaries. In selecting materials for this book, Floyd W. Hayes was guided by a developmental or historical approach in the general compilation of each section's readings. By doing so, the author hopes that the reader will be enabled to arrive at a critical understanding of the conditions and forces that have influenced the African American experience. A Collegiate Press book

On Extinction

Author : Melanie Challenger
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619021447
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book On Extinction written by Melanie Challenger and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realizing the link between her own estrangement from nature and the cultural shifts that led to a dramatic rise in extinctions, award–winning writer Melanie Challenger travels in search of the stories behind these losses. From an exploration of an abandoned mine in England to an Antarctic sea voyage to South Georgia's old whaling stations, from a sojourn in South America to a stay among an Inuit community in Canada, she uncovers species, cultures, and industries touched by extinction. Accompanying her on this journey are the thoughts of anthropologists, biologists, and philosophers who have come before her. Drawing on their words as well as firsthand witness and ancestral memory, Challenger traces the mindset that led to our destructiveness and proposes a path of redemption rooted in our emotional responses. This sobering yet illuminating book looks beyond natural devastation to examine "why" and "what's next."

Tourists with Typewriters

Author : Patrick Holland
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472087068
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Tourists with Typewriters written by Patrick Holland and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at how contemporary travel writing reflects gender, cultural history, and social class

The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing

Author : Debbie Lisle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521867801
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing written by Debbie Lisle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings the 'serious' world of politics to the 'superficial' world of contemporary travel writing.

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing

Author : Robert Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107153395
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing written by Robert Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion addresses an exciting emerging field of literary scholarship that charts the intersections of postcolonial studies and travel writing.

The Voyage of the Cormorant

Author : Christian Beamish
Publisher : Patagonia
ISBN 13 : 1938340116
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book The Voyage of the Cormorant written by Christian Beamish and published by Patagonia. This book was released on 2013-10-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Beamish, a former editor at The Surfer’s Journal, envisioned a low-tech, self-reliant exploration for surf along the coast of North America, using primarily clothes and instruments available to his ancestors, and the 18-foot boat he would build by hand in his garage. How the vision met reality – and how the two came to shape each other – places Voyage of the Cormorant in the great American tradition of tales of life at sea, and what it has to teach us.

Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture

Author : Faye Hammill
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781384657
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture written by Faye Hammill and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of Canadian magazines (in English and French) in the early to mid-twentieth century, casting light on middlebrow culture.

Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures

Author : Charles Forsdick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191555290
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures written by Charles Forsdick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of the first studies of twentieth-century travel literature in French, tracking the form from the colonial past to the postcolonial present. Whereas most recent explorations of travel literature have addressed English-language material, Forsdick's study complements these by presenting a body of material that has previously attracted little attention, ranging from conventional travel writing to other cultural phenomena (such as the Colonial Exposition of 1931) in which changing attitudes to travel are apparent. Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures explores the evolution of attitudes to cultural diversity, explaining how each generation seems simultaneously to foretell the collapse and reinvention of 'elsewhere'. It also follows the progressive renegotiation of understandings of travel (and travel literature) across the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of travel narratives from France's former colonies. The book suggests that an exclusive colonial understanding of travel as a practice defined along the lines of class, gender, and ethnicity has slowly been transformed so that travel has become an enabling figure - encapsulated in notions such as James Clifford's 'traveling cultures' - central to analyses of contemporary global culture. Engaging initially with Victor Segalen's early twentieth-century reflection on travel and exoticism and Albert Kahn's 'Archives de la Planète', Forsdick goes on to examine a series of interrelated texts and phenomena: early African travel narratives, inter-war ethnography, post-war accounts of Citroën 2CV journeys, the travel stories of immigrant workers, the work of Nicholas Bouvier and the Pour une littérature voyageuse movement, narratives of recent walking journeys, and contemporary Polynesian literature. In delineating a francophone space stretching far beyond metropolitan France itself, the book contributes to new understandings of French and Francophone Studies, and will also be of interest to those interested in issues of comparatism as well as colonial and postcolonial culture and identity.