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An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul

Author : Richard Tillinghast
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 190782250X
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul written by Richard Tillinghast and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is an old Istanbul hand who has seen it change over the years from a provincial backwater to today's vibrant metropolis. With Tillinghast as a guide through Istanbul's cafés, mosques and palaces, and along its streets and waterways, readers will feel at home both in the Constantinople of bygone days and on the streets of the modern town.

An Armchair Traveller's History of Finland

Author : Jonathan Clements
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1909961019
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book An Armchair Traveller's History of Finland written by Jonathan Clements and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the American mind, Finland is often swept up in the general group of Nordic countries, little known and seldom gaining prominence on its own. But as Jonathan Clements shows in An Armchair Traveller’s History of Finland, it has a long and fascinating history, one that offers oddities and excitements galore: from prehistoric herders to medieval lords, Christian martyrs and Viking kings, and the war heroes who held off the Soviet Union against long odds. Clements travels the length of the country as he tells these stories, along the way offering accounts of Finland’s public artworks, literary giants, legends and folktales, and famous figures. The result is the perfect introduction to Finland for armchair and actual travelers alike.

An Armchair Traveller's History of Cambridge

Author : Richard Tames
Publisher : Armchair Traveller's History
ISBN 13 : 9781907973772
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (737 download)

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Download or read book An Armchair Traveller's History of Cambridge written by Richard Tames and published by Armchair Traveller's History. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Armchair Traveller's History of Cambridge is a narrative of the city and university; its food and fashion; music and gardens; books and clubs; as well as Cambridge's contributions to poetry, theater and sport; its royal associations and the new links it forged with the Arab world and China. Attractions include the world-renowned Fitzwilliam Museum and Botanic Gardens, the quirky Kettle's Yard, and museums devoted to archaeology, anthropology, zoology, earth sciences, polar research and the history of science. Research reveals thatmost visitors to Cambridge never venture more than four hundred yards from the central Market Square. An Armchair Traveller's History of Cambridge will help you do better than that-and want to.

An Armchair Traveller's History of Beijing

Author : Jonathan Clements
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1909961302
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book An Armchair Traveller's History of Beijing written by Jonathan Clements and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As China’s global influence continues to rise, its capital, Beijing, has become increasingly important—and a popular tourist destination, greeting close to five million international visitors each year. An Armchair Traveller’s History of Beijing presents the capital from its earliest beginnings as a prehistoric campsite for Peking Man through its fluctuating fortunes under a dozen dynasties. Home to capitals of several states over time, the site of modern Beijing has been ruled by Mongolian chiefs and the glorious Ming emperors, whose tombs can still be found on its outskirts. Through Beijing, we can experience Chinese history itself, including its more famous residents—including Khubilai Khan, Mulan, and Marco Polo. Special emphasis is placed on Beijing’s precarious heritage in the twenty-first century, as modern construction wipes out much of the old city to make way for homes for twenty million people. This book also offers detailed information on sites of tourist interest, including the pros and cons of different sections of the Great Wall and the best ways to see the Forbidden City and the fast-disappearing relics of the city’s Manchu and Maoist eras. A chapter on food and drink examines not only local delicacies, but the many other Chinese dishes that form part of Beijing’s rich dining traditions. With its blend of rich history and expert tips, An Armchair Traveller’s History of Beijing is an essential introduction to one of the world’s most remarkable cities.

The Cambridge History of Travel Writing

Author : Nandini Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110861681X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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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.

An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia

Author : Desmond Seward
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1907973761
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia written by Desmond Seward and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia is the story of the heel of Italy - Puglia - as told by past and present day travellers. It has beautiful landscapes, cave towns and frescoed grotto churches, wonderful old cities with Romanesque cathedrals, Gothic castles and a wealth of Baroque architecture. And yet, while far from inaccessible, until quite recently it was seldom visited by tourists. This portrait of Apulia concentrates on the Apulian people down the ages. Conquerors, whether Messapians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Lombards, Byzantines, Normans, Angevins, Germans or Spaniards, have all left their mark on the region in a cultural palimpsest that at first sight bewilders, but which hugely repays investigation. Arranged in short chapters, the narrative travels from north to south, making it an ideal companion for exploring Apulia by car. The Gazetteer, which is cross-referenced to the main text, highlights cities, churches, cathedrals, castles and sites of historical importance to the visitor. For travellers on the ground or students at their desks, this elegant, cloth-bound book will prove invaluable.

Britain Revealed

Author : Diana Cordea
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 6158179388
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book Britain Revealed written by Diana Cordea and published by Trivent Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do Brits call their flag a "Jack"? How did the leek become a symbol of Wales? Does the Tube run 24/7? Who was the Widow of Windsor? Can you take part in a coronation? What was a Greenwood marriage? Was the Giant's Causeway built by an Irish giant? Which British literary figures won the Nobel Prize for Literature? How can you register a record in the Guinness Book of Records? What is the emergency phone number in the UK? Providing well-organised material on the UK's history, geography, literature, royalty and society, Diana Cordea's "Britain Revealed" is a condensed and easy to read book about all things British. It is an excellent user-friendly reference for prospective visitors to the UK, Anglophiles, or readers wishing to know and understand popular British culture. Most importantly, "Britain Revealed" is aimed at teachers of English as a foreign language, who wish to make their English and optional classes more exciting. The plethora of information provided in this comprehensive teaching aid can be adapted to various levels of language proficiency and can be used in various classroom activities. Focusing on essential questions concerning British culture and civilisation, this volume is also attractive to learners, who will thus have the opportunity of brushing up on their English in a versatile and practical way.

Qing Travelers to the Far West

Author : Jenny Huangfu Day
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108471323
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Qing Travelers to the Far West written by Jenny Huangfu Day and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fundamentally new interpretation of the Qing reveals how Sino-Western engagements transformed traditions, institutions, and networks of communications.

A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia / Ibn al-Mujawir's Tarikh al-Mustabsir

Author : G. Rex Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317186303
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia / Ibn al-Mujawir's Tarikh al-Mustabsir written by G. Rex Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English translation of the Tarikh al-Mustabsir, written in the early quarter of the thirteenth century by Ibn al-Mujawir. The text is a fascinating account of the western and southern areas of the Arabian Peninsula by a man from the east of the Islamic world, probably from Khurasan in Iran. Ibn al-Mujawir was a man who in all probability followed the age-old Islamic practice of making the pilgrimage to Mecca and thereafter travelling in the area to further his business interests. His route began in Mecca and essentially ran south through the Red Sea coastal plain, Tihamah, down into the Yemen and along the southern coast of the peninsula. He paused long in Aden, where he observed closely the activities of the port to report at some length on its administration, its taxes, its markets, its currency, its weights and measures, and the like. His route then continued along the southern coast of Arabia into the Gulf, and he presumably returned home to the east via Iraq. The author is a wonderful observer of people: their buildings, their dress, their customs, their agriculture, their food and their history. This book is a unique source for the social and economic history of thirteenth-century south Arabia, written with a humour and wit otherwise unknown in the writings of medieval Islam. The text is of major linguistic importance too, written as it is in a far from classical Arabic. This translation is fully annotated with an introduction, appendices, glossary and full index, and contains maps and illustrations.

Walking Pepys's London

Author : Jacky Colliss Harvey
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1913368297
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Walking Pepys's London written by Jacky Colliss Harvey and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings to life the world of Samuel Pepys with five walks through London. Samuel Pepys, the seventeenth century's best-known diarist, walked around London for miles, chronicling these walks in his diary. He made the two-and-a-half-mile trek to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London on an almost daily basis. These streets, where many of his professional conversations took place while walking, became for him an alternative to his office. With Walking Pepys’s London, we come to know life in London from the pavement up and see its streets from the perspective of this renowned diarist. The city was a key character in Pepys’s life, and this book draws parallels between his experience of seventeenth-century London and the lives of Londoners today. Bringing together geography, biography, and history, Jacky Colliss Harvey reconstructs the sensory and emotional experience of Pepys’s time. Full of fascinating details, Walking Pepys’s London is a sensitive exploration into the places that made the greatest English diarist of all time.

The Georgian Era: Voyagers and travellers. Philosophers and men of science. Authors

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Georgian Era: Voyagers and travellers. Philosophers and men of science. Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Travel and Exploration

Author : Samuel Carter Gilmour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Travel and Exploration written by Samuel Carter Gilmour and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Way of Herodotus

Author : Justin Marozzi
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 0306816210
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Way of Herodotus written by Justin Marozzi and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing travel history exploring and evoking the world of Herodotus, with abundant commentary on the legacy and spirit of the "father of history" and the literary art he created.

The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age

Author : Helmer J. Helmers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107172268
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age written by Helmer J. Helmers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to the political, economic, literary, and artistic heritage of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.

British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain, 1450-1700

Author : John Cramsie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783270535
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain, 1450-1700 written by John Cramsie and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters with a 'multicultural' Britain in the Tudor and Stuart periods written with an eye to debates about immigration and ethnicity in today's Britain.

England Re-Oriented

Author : Humberto Garcia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108495648
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book England Re-Oriented written by Humberto Garcia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1750 and 1857, westward-bound Central and South Asian travelers connected imperial Britain to Persian Indo-Eurasia by performing queer masculinities.

A Concise History of Switzerland

Author : Clive H. Church
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107244196
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Switzerland written by Clive H. Church and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its position at the heart of Europe and its quintessentially European nature, Switzerland's history is often overlooked within the English-speaking world. This comprehensive and engaging history of Switzerland traces the historical and cultural development of this fascinating but neglected European country from the end of the Dark Ages up to the present. The authors focus on the initial Confederacy of the Middle Ages; the religious divisions which threatened it after 1500 and its surprising survival amongst Europe's monarchies; the turmoil following the French Revolution and conquest, which continued until the Federal Constitution of 1848; the testing of the Swiss nation through the late nineteenth century and then two World Wars and the Depression of the 1930s; and the unparalleled economic and social growth and political success of the post-war era. The book concludes with a discussion of the contemporary challenges, often shared with neighbours, that shape the country today.