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The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress; Being Some Account of Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land;
By: Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel L.)
Published by: Digital Scanning, Inc.
The Innocents Abroad began as a series of travel letters written mainly for the Alta California , a San Francisco newspaper that sponsored Mark Twains participation in his trip to Europe and the Holy Land in 1867 aboard the steamship Quaker City. On the excursion from New York to Palestine they traveled a distance of over twenty thousand miles by sea and land through France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Russia, Turkey and Egypt. Through his humorous writings he describes countries, nations, incidents, adventures and some of the people he encountered along the way. Elisha Bliss, published these letters as Innocents a subscription book in 1869, and then suggested to Twain that he revise the letters into this book.
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Invisible China
By: Legerton, Colin; Rawson, Jacob
Published by: Chicago Review Press
Explores the minority people who dwell in the farthest reaches of China. This title reveals truths about China's hidden minorities and their complex position in Chinese society through discussions, including a debate with Ewenki village cadres on human rights and talks with ageing hajjis about the Chinese government's razing of their mosque.
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Price: $19.95
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Isolarion
By: Attlee, James
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
Isolarion takes its title from a type of fifteenth-century map that isolates an area in order to present it in detail, and thats just what James Attlee does here for Cowley Road in Oxford. The former site of a leper hospital, a workhouse, and a medieval well said to have miraculous healing powers, Cowley Road has little to do with the dreaming spires of the tourists or students Oxford. From a sojourn in a sensory-deprivation tank to a furtive visit to an unmarked pornography emporium, the sharp-eyed Attlee investigates every aspect of the Cowley Roads appealingly eclectic culture, where halal shops jostle with craft jewelers and nightclubs pulsate alongside quiet churchyards. Drawing inspiration from sources ranging from Robert Burtons The Anatomy of Melancholy to contemporary art, Attlee is a charming and congenial guide who revels in the extraordinary embedded in the everyday. Isolarion is at once a road movie, a quixotic stand against uniformity, and a rousing hymn in praise of the complex, invigorating nature of the twenty-first-century city. Attlee paints an iridescent picture of a new Oxford that no guide book has yet captured.Richard B. Woodward, New York Times. A gem. . . . James Attlee's scholarly, reflective and sympathetic journey up the Cowley Road . . . blends a vivid account of daily life, fluid and unsettling, in a modern British town with powerful allegorical reflections on the connections between past and present, time and space, and high culture and the hard scrabble world that sustains it.Economist. The attraction, for Attlee, is that the Cowley Road is both unique and nothing special; the resulting book is unique and very special. . . . Residents of East Oxford can be proud to have this eccentric advocate and eloquent explorer in their midst.Geoff Dyer, Guardian.
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Istanbul
By: Kerper, Barrie (ed.)
Published by: Vintage
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Istanbul
By: Pamuk, Orhan
Published by: Vintage Books
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy–or h ü z ü n– that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.
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Italian Hours
By: James, Henry; Auchard, John (ed.)
Published by: Penguin Classics
James's essays on Italy are remarkable for their humanity. Traveling extensively throughout the country, including Venice, Rome, and Florence, he presents a portrait of a beautiful but impoverished country and, while he appreciated the beauty of the art, the ancient architecture, and the landscape, he never was able to forget the dire situation of many Italians, a state that caused him to meditate on the morality of the traveler who goes there to gaze on them.
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Japan Extolled and Decried
By: Screech, Timon; Thunberg, C.P.
Published by: RoutledgeCurzon
This edition makes newly available C.P. Thunberg's writings on Japan, complete with illustrations. Fully annotated and introduced by Timon Screech.
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The Land of Little Rain
By: Austin, Mary
Published by: Penguin Books Australia
A stunning tribute to the savage beauty of the area known as Death Valley. To most travelers it is a parched, empty territory, unwelcoming and forgiving. In a collection of essays that date back almost a century, naturalist and writer Mary Austin (1868-1934) breathes life into the desert landscape, describing its savage beauty, its plants and animals, and the occasional human visitor.
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Land's End
By: Cunningham, Michael
Published by: Crown Publishing Group
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