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Lost in Translation - A journey through central America

Author : Cyril Münst
Publisher : Cyril Münst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost in Translation - A journey through central America written by Cyril Münst and published by Cyril Münst. This book was released on with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in Translation is a humorous and insightful travelogue chronicling Cyril's journey through Central America. For five months, Cyril traveled through Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama with little knowledge of the Spanish language. This book is a collection of stories about the cultural misunderstandings, language barriers, and personal anecdotes he encountered during his journey. As a Swiss national who only speaks English and German, Cyril's experience in Central America was a challenge, to say the least. From ordering food to navigating the streets, he found himself in awkward and humorous situations that left him feeling lost in Translation. This book is not just about the struggles of traveling in a foreign country but also a celebration of the unique and diverse cultures he encountered along the way. Cyril's experience allowed him to gain a new perspective on life, and he shares this perspective with the reader in a lighthearted and engaging manner. Whether you're a seasoned traveler or someone who's never left your hometown, Lost in Translation is a book that will leave you laughing and contemplating the beauty and challenges of communication and cultural exchange. So sit back, relax, and get ready to be entertained and educated by Cyril's hilarious and heartwarming stories.

Lost in Translation

Author : Nicole Mones
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0385319444
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Lost in Translation written by Nicole Mones and published by Delta. This book was released on 1999-05-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of searing intelligence and startling originality, Lost in Translation heralds the debut of a unique new voice on the literary landscape. Nicole Mones creates an unforgettable story of love and desire, of family ties and human conflict, and of one woman's struggle to lose herself in a foreign land--only to discover her home, her heart, herself. At dawn in Beijing, Alice Mannegan pedals a bicycle through the deserted streets. An American by birth, a translator by profession, she spends her nights in Beijing's smoke-filled bars, and the Chinese men she so desires never misunderstand her intentions. All around her rushes the air of China, the scent of history and change, of a world where she has come to escape her father's love and her own pain. It is a world in which, each night as she slips from her hotel, she hopes to lose herself forever. For Alice, it began with a phone call from an American archaeologist seeking a translator. And it ended in an intoxicating journey of the heart--one that would plunge her into a nation's past, and into some of the most rarely glimpsed regions of China. Hired by an archaeologist searching for the bones of Peking Man, Alice joins an expedition that penetrates a vast, uncharted land and brings Professor Lin Shiyang into her life. As they draw closer to unearthing the secret of Peking Man, as the group's every move is followed, their every whisper recorded, Alice and Lin find shelter in each other, slowly putting to rest the ghosts of their pasts. What happens between them becomes one of the most breathtakingly erotic love stories in recent fiction. Indeed, Lost in Translation is a novel about love--between a nation and its past, between a man and a memory, between a father and a daughter. Its powerful impact confirms the extraordinary gifts of a master storyteller, Nicole Mones.

Journey Through America

Author : Wolfgang Koeppen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857454374
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Journey Through America written by Wolfgang Koeppen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amerikafahrt by Wolfgang Koeppen is a masterpiece of observation, analysis, and writing, based on his 1958 trip to the United States. A major twentieth-century German writer, Koeppen presents a vivid and fascinating portrait of the US in the late 1950s: its major cities, its literary culture, its troubled race relations, its multi-culturalism and its vast loneliness, a motif drawn, in part, from Kafka’s Amerika. A modernist travelogue, the text employs symbol, myth, and image, as if Koeppen sought to answer de Tocqueville’s questions in the manner of Joyce and Kafka. Journey through America is also a meditation on America, intended for a German audience and mindful of the destiny of postwar Europe under many Americanizing influences.

Between Two Continents

Author : Wilhelm (Prince of Sweden)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Between Two Continents written by Wilhelm (Prince of Sweden) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How We Found America

Author : Magdalena J. Zaborowska
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807845097
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book How We Found America written by Magdalena J. Zaborowska and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now, the East European canon in American literature has been dominated by male dissident figures such as Brodsky, Milosz, and Kundera. Magdalena Zaborowska challenges that canon by demonstrating the contributions of lesser-known immigrant and expatr

The Grammar of God

Author : Aviya Kushner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0385520824
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Grammar of God written by Aviya Kushner and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author recalls how, after becoming very familiar with the Biblical Old Testament in its original Hebrew growing up, an encounter with an English language version led her on a ten-year project of examining various translations of the Old Testament and their histories, "--Novelist.

Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index

Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579584405
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index written by Jennifer Speake and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America

Author : Raphaela Henze
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100038702X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America written by Raphaela Henze and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America provides in-depth insights into the education and training of cultural managers from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. The book focuses on the effects of neoliberalism on cultural policies across the region, and questions how cultural managers in Latin America deal not only with contemporary political challenges but also with the omnipresent legacy of colonialism. In doing so, it unpacks the methods, formats, and narratives employed. Reflecting on emerging and contemporary research topics, the book analyses the key literature and scholarly contexts to identify impacts in the region and beyond. The volume provides scholars, students and reflective practitioners with a comprehensive resource on international cultural management that helps to overcome Western-centric methods and theories.

Literature of Travel and Exploration

Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135456631
Total Pages : 1425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 1425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

The Lost Book of Mormon

Author : Avi Steinberg
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385535708
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Book of Mormon written by Avi Steinberg and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Book of Mormon the Great American Novel? Decades before Melville and Twain composed their great works, a farmhand and child seer named Joseph Smith unearthed a long-buried book from a haunted hill in western New York State that told of an epic history of ancient America, a story about a family that fled biblical Jerusalem and took a boat to the New World. Using his prophetic gift, Joseph translated the mysterious book into English and published it under the title The Book of Mormon. The book caused an immediate sensation, sparking anger and violence, boycotts and jealousy, curiosity and wonder, and launched Joseph on a wild, decades-long adventure across the American West. Today The Book of Mormon, one of the most widely circulating works of American literature, continues to cause controversy—which is why most of us know very little about the story it tells. Avi Steinberg wants to change that. A fascinated nonbeliever, Steinberg spent a year and a half on a personal quest, traveling the path laid out by Joseph’s epic. Starting in Jerusalem, where The Book of Mormon opens with a bloody murder, Steinberg continued to the ruined Maya cities of Central America—the setting for most of the The Book of Mormon’s ancient story—where he gallivanted with a boisterous bus tour of believers exploring Maya archaeological sites for evidence. From there the journey took him to upstate New York, where he participated in the true Book of Mormon musical, the annual Hill Cumorah Pageant. And finally Steinberg arrived at the center of the American continent, Jackson County, Missouri, the spot Smith identified as none other than the site of the Garden of Eden. Threaded through this quirky travelogue is an argument for taking The Book of Mormon seriously as a work of American imagination. Literate and funny, personal and provocative, the genre-bending The Lost Book of Mormon boldly explores our deeply human impulse to write bibles and discovers the abiding power of story.

Popular Fallacies regarding General Interests; being a translation of the “Sophismes économiques” ... With notes by G. R. Porter [the translator].

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Author : Frédéric Bastiat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Popular Fallacies regarding General Interests; being a translation of the “Sophismes économiques” ... With notes by G. R. Porter [the translator]. written by Frédéric Bastiat and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787445
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Lost in Translation

Author : Ella Frances Sanders
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 1607747111
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Lost in Translation written by Ella Frances Sanders and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Eating the Sun, an artistic collection of more than 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English Did you know that the Japanese language has a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there’s a Finnish word for the distance a reindeer can travel before needing to rest? Lost in Translation brings to life more than fifty words that don’t have direct English translations with charming illustrations of their tender, poignant, and humorous definitions. Often these words provide insight into the cultures they come from, such as the Brazilian Portuguese word for running your fingers through a lover’s hair, the Italian word for being moved to tears by a story, or the Swedish word for a third cup of coffee. In this clever and beautifully rendered exploration of the subtleties of communication, you’ll find new ways to express yourself while getting lost in the artistry of imperfect translation.

A Bicycle Journey to the Bottom of the Americas

Author : George Hawkins
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595132383
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book A Bicycle Journey to the Bottom of the Americas written by George Hawkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-10-20 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember when you were a kid and you got your first bicycle? After a few weeks of mastering the dynamics of balancing, steering, and pedaling, all at the same time hopefully, your father released his protective, steadying grip on the seat and you went wobbling off on your own. It was probably your very first taste of independence and freedom and you knew you liked that feeling very much. Few things in life have ever compared to that first solo ride. Almost 40 years after my first solo bike ride, I was able to recapture the excitement and passion of that momentous occasion when I pedaled out of Anchorage, Alaska bound for Tierra del Fuego-the very tip of South America. No matter that it was 17,500 miles distant and would take 3½ years to get there I vowed I would achieve that goal if it took the rest of my life.

In and Out of Central America

Author : Frank Vincent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330454367
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book In and Out of Central America written by Frank Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In and Out of Central America: And Other Sketches and Studies of Travel About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Discovery and Conquest of Peru

Author : Pedro de Cieza de Leon
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822382504
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Discovery and Conquest of Peru written by Pedro de Cieza de Leon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-11 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville’s docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de León vowed to join the Spanish effort in the New World, become an explorer, and write what would become the earliest historical account of the conquest of Peru. Available for the first time in English, this history of Peru is based largely on interviews with Cieza’s conquistador compatriates, as well as with Indian informants knowledgeable of the Incan past. Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook present this recently discovered third book of a four-part chronicle that provides the most thorough and definitive record of the birth of modern Andean America. It describes with unparalleled detail the exploration of the Pacific coast of South America led by Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro, the imprisonment and death of the Inca Atahualpa, the Indian resistance, and the ultimate Spanish domination. Students and scholars of Latin American history and conquest narratives will welcome the publication of this volume.

Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

Author : Eva Hoffman
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language written by Eva Hoffman and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound." Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language, a classic of exile and immigrant literature, as well as a girl’s coming-of-age memoir. Lost in Translationmoves from Hoffman's childhood in Cracow, Poland to her adolescence in Vancouver, British Columbia to her university years in Texas and Massachusetts to New York City, where she becomes a writer and an editor at the New York Times Book Review. Its multi-layered narrative encompasses many themes: the defining power of language; the costs and benefits of changing cultures, the construction of personal identity, and the profound consequences, for a generation of post-war Jews like Hoffman, of Nazism and Communism. Lost in Translation is, as Publisher's Weekly wrote, "a penetrating, lyrical memoir that casts a wide net," challenges its reader to reconsider their own language, autobiography, cultures, and childhoods. Lost in Translation was first published in the United States in 1989. Hoffman’s subsequent books of literary non-fiction include Exit into History, Shtetl, After Such Knowledge, Time and two novels, The Secret and Appassionata. "Nothing, after all, has been lost; poetry this time has been made in and by translation." — Peter Conrad, The New York Times "Handsomely written and judiciously reflective, it is testimony to the human capacity not merely to adapt but to reinvent: to find new lives for ourselves without forfeiting the dignity and meaning of our old ones." — Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post "As a childhood memoir, Lost in Translation has the colors and nuance of Nabokov'sSpeak, Memory. As an account of a young mind wandering into great books, it recalls Sartre's Words. … As an anthropology of Eastern European émigré life, American academe and the Upper West Side of Manhattan, it's every bit as deep and wicked as anything by Cynthia Ozick. … A brilliant, polyphonic book that is itself an act of faith, a Bach Fugue." — John Leonard, Harper’s Magazine