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Extreme pursuits
Recent figures suggest that there will be 1.6 billion arrivals at world airports by the year 2020. Extreme Pursuits looks at the new conditions of global travel and the unease, even paranoia, that underlies them—at the opportunities they offer for alternative identities and their oscillation between remembered and anticipated states. Graham Huggan offers a provocative account of what is happening to travel at a time characterized by extremes of social and political instability in which adrenaline-filled travelers appear correspondingly determined to take risks. It includes discussions of the links between tourism and terrorism, of contemporary modes of disaster tourism, and of the writing that derives from these; but it also confirms the existence of more responsible forms of travel/writing that demonstrate awareness of a chronically endangered world.
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Microtravel
This volume explores and historicizes the phenomenon of 'microtravel', a term coined to designate slower journeys within a limited radius which allow, and sometimes necessitate, new forms of experiencing the world. The chapters study travelogues that recalibrate the scale of journeying, with travellers slowing down their journeys and readjusting their relationship to the proximate and nearby.
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Airplane mode : an irreverent history of travel
\"The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history of travel with her personal story as a child on family vacations in India, an adult curious about the world, and an immigrant for whom roundtrips are an annual fact of life. Tracing the power dynamics that underlie tourism, this ... debut parses who gets to travel, and who gets to write about the experience. Threaded through the book are ... analyses of obvious and not-so-obvious travel artifacts: passports, carousels, bougainvilleas, guidebooks, trains, the idea of wanderlust itself. Together, they tell a subversive history of travel as a Euro-American mode of consumerism--but as any traveler knows, travel is more than that\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Journeys and Destinations
Journeys and Destinations: Studies in Travel, Identity, and Meaning brings together scholarship from diverse fields all focused on either practices of journeying, or destinations to which such journeys lead. Common across the contributions herein are threads that indicate travel as a core component - as a concept or a practice - of the fabric of identity and meaning.
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Le Vieil Homme et la Petite Fleur
A l'age ou, d'habitude, l'homme tire un trait sur sa vie, Theodore Monod part a la recherche de son Graal botanique Cet explorateur aime les defis comme personne et ce dernier le taraude depuis 1940.Cet ouvrage est l'histoire d'une aventureuse expedition, ou se melent la beaute des paysages desertiques du Tibesti et la passion qui anime ce prophete saharien, au-dela des contraintes physiques, du terrain mine et de l'intrusion frauduleuse en Libye que cette expedition lui a imposes.Voici le carnet de voyage du dernier grand raid saharien accompli par ce prince des sables, que les nomades connaissaient sous le nom de Majnoun, le \"fou du desert\".CE QU'EN PENSE LA CRITIQUE :\"Un hommage magnifique !\" - La Libre Belgique A PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR :Cineaste specialise dans le documentaire, Maximilien Dauber a realise plusieurs longs metrages dont \"Sahara des Peuls\" ainsi que \"La legende du Nil\" ou encore \"Bruxelles,... ma belle\". Il est egalement l'auteur d'ouvrages illustrant les sujets de la plupart de ses tournages. On lui doit de nombreux films sur l'Egypte ainsi que des travaux cinematographiques et photographiques sur Theodore Monod, dont le portrait Theodore Monod, un destin nomade, diffuse sur France 3 et sur d'autres chaines nationales et internationales.
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The Socrates express : in search of life lessons from dead philosophers
Retraces the journeys of forefront intellectuals from Epicurus and Gandhi to Thoreau and Beauvoir to illuminate how their practical and spiritual lessons can be applied in today's unsettled world.
Do psychographics influence vacation destination choices? A comparison of British travellers to North America, Asia and Oceania
Using national survey data on the long-haul pleasure travel market in the UK,
this study compared British travellers bound for Asian, North American and
Oceanic destinations on three different psychographic dimensions. Significant
differences were found among the three travel groups in trael philosophies,
travel benefits sought and destination attribute preferences. In contrast,
demographic and socio-economic variables were found to be ineffective in
differentiating the British travellers. The research findings provided further
empirical evidence of the valuable role that psychographic factors, such as
attitudes and preferences, can play in understanding travel decision making. The
results also indicated that destination areas should identify the benefits and
attributes that are most highly valued by travellers from key countryof-origin
target markets. Furthe, the study suggested that there was good reason for
closer marketing alliances among individual countries within a region. Within
each of the three broad travel regions reviewed in this study there existed more
homogeneity, while between regions there appeared to be more heterogeneity in
the psychographic variables.
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