Travel Absurdities

Author : Penelope A. Riley
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595524192
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travel Absurdities written by Penelope A. Riley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel absurdities, a gathering of stories that have been etched in my memories for years. These incidents were not necessarily funny when they occured but can't help but laugh as I look back in fondness. Vacations, holidays, family reunions, summer outings are supposed to afford us with time to relax and renew our bodies from the normal daily grind of life but oftentimes become mishap ridden as we try to avoid the stress that made us take the trip in the first place. A vicious circle, but just ask me if I want to go somewhere, my answer is always yes! I never completely unpack my carryon. My luggage sits next to my bed beckoning me to take it out the door. This world is so vast and I have such memorable stories to tell, some absured, some humorous and others just one mishap after another. The stories people listen to, sometimes in disbelief.

Author : Penelope A Riley
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1481715070
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duckie Dan the Traveling Man written by Penelope A Riley and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Duckie Dan, a cute furry little duck, who has a desire to travel and have lots of friends. Dan is mischievous and sometimes his curiosity gets him into trouble on his journeys. An unscheduled trip inside a candy factory leaves him a little gooey. Dan is an only-child and seeks out others to join him and enjoy his life with granny. Grandma Hattie made the mistake of saying, There is always room for one more!

Author : Ahmed M. Badr
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1524865850
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book While the Earth Sleeps We Travel written by Ahmed M. Badr and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking collection of poetry, personal narratives, and art from refugee youth around the world. Foreword by actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller. Beginning in 2018, Ahmed M. Badr—an Iraqi-American poet and former refugee—traveled to Greece, Trinidad & Tobago, and Syracuse, New York, holding storytelling workshops with hundreds of displaced youth: those living in and outside of camps, as well as those adjusting to life after resettlement. Combining Badr’s own poetry with the personal narratives and creative contributions of dozens of young refugees, While the Earth Sleeps We Travel seeks to center and amplify the often unheard perspectives of those navigating through and beyond the complexities of displacement. The result is a diverse and moving collection—a meditation on the concept of "home" and a testament to the power of storytelling.

Author : Suzanne Roberts
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496223985
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Tourist written by Suzanne Roberts and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself. Throughout her travels Roberts tries hard not to be a bad tourist, but owing to her cultural blind spots, things don’t always go as planned. Fearlessly confessional, shamelessly funny, and wholly unapologetic, Roberts offers a refreshingly honest account of the joys and absurdities of confronting new landscapes and cultures, as well as new versions of herself. Raw, bawdy, and self-effacing, Bad Tourist is a journey packed with delights and surprises—both of the greater world and of the mysterious workings of the heart.

Author : Jason Cochran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781544503660
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here Lies America written by Jason Cochran and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Lies America is a fast-paced, hilarious travel narrative in which Jason Cochran visits the major American tourism attractions that exist because something really horrible happened there. He romps through disaster zones, battlefields, terrorist attack sites--as long as it has a parking lot and a gift shop, he put it on the itinerary, no gravestone unturned. Along the way, he takes a look at the motivations of the people who installed the monuments, and when he pauses to seek the meaning behind the early demise of one of his own ancestors, he uncovers a tragic race-based murder plot that had been buried for a century. This is an American journey that could only be undertaken in our turbulent times, celebrating the absurd while surveying the country's teetering patriotic mythology from a healthy position on the margins. Jason chases newspaper clippings in dusty archives to inscriptions on rusty plaques to get to the truth, and in doing so, creates a moving miniature portrait of what it really means to be an American: what's "fact," what's "history," and what really matters.

Author : Alfred Bendixen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827847
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing written by Alfred Bendixen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. Occupying the space between fact and fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals the changing desires and anxieties of both the traveller and the reading public. These specially-commissioned essays trace the journeys taken by writers from the pre-revolutionary period right up to the present. They examine a wide range of responses to the problems posed by landscapes found both at home and abroad, from the Mississippi and the Southwest to Europe and the Holy Land. Throughout, the contributors focus on the role played by travel writing in the definition and formulation of national identity, and consider the experiences of minority writers as well as canonical authors. This Companion forms an invaluable guide for students approaching this new, important and exciting subject for the first time.

Author : Psychotic Logician
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543467911
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Mind Travel written by Psychotic Logician and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychotic logician takes the reader on a journey through his mind. As ones own personal guide in existence, we explore and travel the world in search for a higher understanding of the universe and ones place in it. Whether this book accomplishes this purpose or not may be left open for debate, as well as a complete all-encompassing understanding of the meaning of the world.

Author : Jeff Smith-Luedke
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435717058
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Absurdity of Philosophy written by Jeff Smith-Luedke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Smith-Luedke uses rudiments of logic and lingual philosophy. with broad strokes of reason, rationality and consistent argumentation, as well as anecdotes, humanism and descriptive word invention, to posit more specificity to our understanding of our language speaking history and condition.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography: Wordsworth - Zuylestein written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1376 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: