Booking Passage

Author : Thomas Lynch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393344312
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans written by Thomas Lynch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-06-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A good read even for those who have not the least ancestral or national bias—for those who desire civilized entertainment along with brilliant narrative." —Seattle Times In thirty-five years and dozens of return trips to Ireland, Thomas Lynch has found a template for the larger world inside the small one, the planet in the local parish. Part memoir, part cultural study, Booking Passage is a brilliant, often comedic guidebook for those "fellow travelers, fellow pilgrims" making their way through the complexities of their own lives and times.

Author : Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918215
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Booking Passage written by Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi's sweeping study of modern Jewish writing is in many ways a long meditation on the thematics of geography in Jewish culture, what she calls the "poetics of exile and return." Until the late nineteenth century, Jews were identified in their own religious and poetic imagination as wanderers and exiles, their sacred center–Jerusalem, Zion–fatefully out of reach. Opening the book with "Jewish Journeys," Ezrahi begins by examining the work of medieval Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi to chart a journey whose end was envisioned as the sublime realignment of the people with their original center. When the Holy Land became the site of a political drama of return in the nineteenth century, Jewish writing reflected the shift, traced here in the travel fictions of S.Y. Abramovitsh, S.Y. Agnon, and Sholem Aleichem. In "Jewish Geographies" Ezrahi explores aspects of reterritorialization through memory in the post-Holocaust writing of Paul Celan, Dan Pagis, Aharon Appelfeld, I.B. Singer and Philip Roth. Europe, where Jews had dreamed of return, has become the new ruined shrine: The literary pilgrimages of these writers recall familiar patterns of grieving and representation and a tentative reinvention of the diasporic imagination–in America, of course, but, paradoxically, even in Zion.

Author : New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1886 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand written by New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Becker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439161003
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Overbooked written by Elizabeth Becker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Travel is no longer a past-time but a colossal industry, arguably one of the biggest in the world and second only to oil in importance for many poor countries. One out of 12 people in the world are employed by the tourism industry which contributes $6.5 trillion to the world's economy. To investigate the size and effect of this new industry, Elizabeth Becker traveled the globe. She speaks to the Minister of Tourism of Zambia who thinks licensing foreigners to kill wild animals is a good way to make money and then to a Zambian travel guide who takes her to see the rare endangered sable antelope. She travels to Venice where community groups are fighting to stop the tourism industry from pushing them out of their homes, to France where officials have made tourism their number one industry to save their cultural heritage; and on cruises speaking to waiters who earn $60 a month--then on to Miami to interview their CEO. Becker's sharp depiction reveals travel as a product; nations as stewards. Seeing the tourism industry from the inside out, the world offers a dizzying range of travel options but very few quiet getaways"--

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travel written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Carter Gilmour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( 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 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travel & Exploration written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated monthly of travel, exploration, sport and adventure.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travel Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Allan Beaver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192518445
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Tourism and Travel written by Allan Beaver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides over 6,500 definitions of travel and tourism terminology, including the operating language of the travel industry, acronyms of organizations, associations, and trade bodies, IT terms, and brand names. Completely up to date, this dictionary covers the implications of web technology and social media on the travel and tourism industry, as well as new products and services, such as e-tickets, home-based travel agents, awareness amongst consumers and within the industry of terror-threatened travel, recent changes in legislation, and environmental concerns. Useful appendices include the World Tourism Organization Global Code of Ethics for Tourism, the recommended tourism syllabus content for Higher Education courses worldwide, and a list of the EC Neutral Computerized Reservation System Rules. Providing a wealth of information on one of the fastest-growing global industries of the 21st century, this dictionary is the ideal point of reference for students taking travel, tourism, and hos

Author : Allan Beaver
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 9780851990200
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism Terminology written by Allan Beaver and published by CABI. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised and updated second edition provides over 7,000 definitions of travel and tourism terminology used throughout the world, highlighting the many differences between US and European usage. It covers all aspects of the tourism industry, including hospitality, transport, and ancillary services. It explains the operating language of the travel industry, acronyms and abbreviations of organizations, associations and trade bodies, IT terms and brand names, and provides website addresses. Entries vary from one-line definitions to 500 word articles, and references are provided for further reading. This new edition contains over 500 new entries and the unique cross referencing system has been extended; for example accessing any entry about business travel leads to over 70 others. It is an essential reference tool for anyone involved in tourism research, and everyone in the travel industry.