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Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, Powers
This book explores centuries of power relations and imperial and civilizing rhetorics, overarching themes highlighted in these infrequently heard accounts by eastern travelers to the West. Considered in depth are evolutions in mental frameworks and practices that led to the emergence of anticolonial consciousness and strategies of protest.
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A Cold War Tourist and His Camera
Martha Langford and John Langford examine their father's apparently innocuous photographic experience, revealing the complexity of both the images and their creator. An intelligent and personal look at the ways that the historical and the private are represented and remembered, A Cold War Tourist and His Camera stages the family slide show as you've never seen it before.
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National Geographic traveler. The Mediterranean : ports of call & beyond
An overview of the best Mediterranean sights to help you plan your visit, whether you're traveling by cruise ship, car, or train.
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Contested Russian tourism : cosmopolitanism, nation, and empire in the nineteenth century
This literary, cultural history examines Russian tourism via the prism of cosmopolitanism, pitted against provinciality and nationalist anxiety about the allure of Western Europe. The study's thematic axis sets daunting cultural riches of the West against the compensatory Russian pleasure of playing the \"European\" colonizer on vacation in \"Asia.\".
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News from Abroad
This book provides a selection of private letters written to family and friends from a variety of people while they were on the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century. Although many have been published previously, this is the first time that letters of this kind have been brought together in a single volume. Readers can compare the various responses of travellers to the sights, pleasures and discomforts encountered on the journey. People of diverse backgrounds, with different expectations and interests, give personal accounts of their particular experiences of the Grand Tour. Unlike most collections of letters from the Tour, which recount the views of a single person, this selection emphasises diversity. Readers can juxtapose for example the letters of a conscientious young nobleman like Lyttelton with those of the excitable philanderer Boswell, or the well-travelled aristocratic lady, Caroline Lennox. While the travellers represented here follow much the same route via Paris, through France and across the Alps via the terrifying Mount Cenis, to Rome, in the pursuit of learning and pleasure, the Tour turns out to mean something quite different to each of them.
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A mingling of swans : a Cork Fenian and friends 'visit' Australia
Casey was one of a group of Fenians arrested in 1865 in Cork and transported to Western Australia with other Fenians captured in the abortive 1867 Rising. This text includes Casey's unpublished account of his experiences as a convict on roadwork parties, as well as correspondence by Casey and other Fenians.
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De Saint-Louis à Tripoli par le lac Tchad
Extrait: \"Le jour vint; je ne saurais cacher que je l'appelais de tous mes vœux, car depuis longtemps déjà j'avais mordu à la vie d'explorateur et elle m'avait passionné. À deux reprises, au Sénégal ou au Soudan, comme chef de mission, j'avais eu le bonheur de réussir dans mes entreprises. J'étais allé entre temps guerroyer en Annam, j'avais aussi traversé l'Amérique et visité une grande partie des îles de l'Océanie française, mais l'Afrique conservait mes faveurs.\"
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