Great Cities Through Travelers Eyes

Author : Peter Furtado
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500774854
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Cities Through Travelers' Eyes written by Peter Furtado and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging anthology of travelers’ accounts in thirty-eight of the world’s most fascinating cities, from ancient times through the twentieth century. This entertaining new anthology includes travelers’ tales from thirty-eight cities spread over six continents, ranging from Beijing to Berlin, Cairo to Chicago, and Rio to Rome. The volume features commentators across the millennia, including the great travelers of ancient times, such as Greek geographer Strabo; those who undertook extensive journeys in the medieval world, not least Marco Polo; courageous women such as Isabella Bird and Freya Stark; and enterprising writers and journalists, including Mark Twain. We see the work of famous travelers, but also stories by ordinary people who found themselves involved in remarkable situations, like the medieval Chinese abbot who was shown around the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris by the king of France. Some of the writers seek to provide a straightforward, accurate description of all they have seen, while others concentrate on their subjective experiences of the city and encounters with the inhabitants. Introduced and contextualized by bestselling historian Peter Furtado, each account provides both a vivid portrait of a distant place and time and an insight into those who journeyed there. The result is a book that delves into the splendors and stories that exist beyond conventional guidebooks and websites.

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ISBN 13 : 9780500294093
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Author : Esther Singleton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.HK/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Great Cities for Young Travelers and Others written by Esther Singleton and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William F. Mittendorf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Granular Lids and Contagious Diseases of the Eye written by William F. Mittendorf and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey N. Dupée
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 146169311X
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Download or read book Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi written by Jeffrey N. Dupée and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi is a study of "armchair" travel writers who journeyed to India during what has often been termed the "Age of Gandhi," placed between 1914–1948. Most of the travel writers surveyed understood this era to be a unique time in world history—in India and elsewhere on the globe. The lingering trauma of World War I, the rise of radical state ideologies in Russia, Italy, Japan, and Germany, world-wide depression in the 1930s along with a host of other unsettling political, cultural, and technological realities revealed a world of bewildering complexity and uncertainty. For many of the travel writers surveyed in this work, India was the main drama in a shifting global landscape. Moreover, many viewed it as the ultimate travel experience, a journey that tested one's capacity to fully engage the earth's most compelling forms of human diversity and suffering. Although a few notable figures are included, most of the authors in the study constitute a breed of largely forgotten travel writers. This work is an attempt to extract the core of their observations, impressions, and conclusions concerning what they saw and experienced, particularly concerning Indian aspirations for independence and India as the world's most exotic human landscape.

Author : Holly Wagner
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 1418579688
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God Chicks written by Holly Wagner and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 888 pages
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Author : Stephen Elliott Kramer
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021409348
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Great Cities of the United States, Historical, Descriptive, Commercial, Industrial written by Stephen Elliott Kramer and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide to the great cities of America provides an in-depth look at the history, culture, and economics of each region. From the skyscrapers of New York to the beaches of Los Angeles, readers will gain a deep understanding of the unique character and importance of each city. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547549199
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Download or read book The Tao of Travel written by Paul Theroux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author explores the greatest travel writing by literary adventurers from Freya Stark and James Baldwin to Nabokov and Hemmingway. Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe with this meditative journey through the books that shaped him as a reader and traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates “The Contents of Some Travelers’ Bags” and exposes “Writers Who Wrote about Places They Never Visited”; tracks extreme journeys in “Travel as an Ordeal” and highlights some of “Travelers’ Favorite Places.” Excerpts from the best of Theroux’s own work are interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected, including J.R.R. Tolkien, Samuel Johnson, Eudora Welty, Evelyn Waugh, Isak Dinesen, Charles Dickens, Henry David Thoreau, Pico Iyer, Mark Twain, Anton Chekhov, Bruce Chatwin, John McPhee, Peter Matthiessen, Graham Greene, Paul Bowles, and many more.

Author : Lorraine Caputo
Publisher : Viva Publishing Network
ISBN 13 : 0979126444
Total Pages : 512 pages
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Download or read book Viva Travel Guides Colombia written by Lorraine Caputo and published by Viva Publishing Network. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're planning a trip to Colombia, you probably know already that guidebooks on this country have left a lot to be desired. Recognizing the need for a reliable travel guide to Colombia, V!VA sent a team of writers, and they came back with the best guidebook yet. From the pearl beaches of San Andrs Island and the emerald jungles of the Amazon to the stunning Guajira deserts and the enigmatic mangroves of the Pacific, this book offers information on all you need to know, including: * hotel, restaurant and activities listings for every budget; * shopping in markets and workshops for the nation's best artisan crafts; * coverage on almost two dozen National Parks Sanctuaries; * border crossing information, to Panam, Venezuela, Per, Brazil and Ecuador; * an extensive bibliography to keep informed and help make your journey safe. Whether for business, a family vacation or a gap-year adventure, V!VA Travel Guide to Colombia is the guidebook for all travelers.