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      • Photo Travel Editions

        Photo Travel Editions is an italian independent Publishing House founded in 2018 and directed by Giovanni Marino. Books and reading are necessary tools to communicate beauty and to transmit memory and identity. In this context, Photo Travel Editions, develops as a natural evolution of a complex reality with the aim of giving voice to the need to spread and share the cultural tool par excellence, the book. Photo Travel Editions combines aspects of traditional publishing with the new modern publishing of E-books and audiobooks. The publishing project offers nonfiction books, contemporary fiction, poetry, photographic books and the re-edition of rare books.  Great attention is paid to emerging authors who will be offered the means to reach an increasingly important number of readers, giving them the opportunity to express themselves, communicate and excite through writing.

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      • Bradt Travel Guides Ltd

        Bradt Travel Guides have a reputation as the pioneering publisher for tackling ‘unusual’ destinations, and producing colourful guidebooks which are entertaining as well as useful.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        July 2021

        Old Fortunatus

        By Thomas Dekker

        by David McInnis

        With its fantasy of magical travel and inexhaustible riches, Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus is the quintessential early modern journeying play. The adventures of Fortunatus and his sons, aided by a magical purse and wishing-hat, offers the period's most overt celebration of the pleasures of travel, as well as a sustained critique of the dangers of intemperance and prodigality. Written following a period of financial difficulty for Dekker, the play is also notable for its fascination with the symbolic, mercantile and ethical uses of gold. This Revels Plays edition is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Old Fortunatus. It offers scholarly discussion of the play's performance and textual history, including attention to the German version printed and performed in the early seventeenth century. It provides a long overdue critical reappraisal of this unjustly neglected play.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        September 2002

        An anthology of women's travel writings

        by Shirley Foster, Sara Mills

        This anthology aims to challenge stereotypes of women travellers. Rather than simply presenting writings by Victorian women who travelled bravely around the world disregarding social convention and danger, the editors present a range of writing and possible ways of being a woman traveller. As well as the 'eccentric' woman traveller, the editors have included writings by those who might be seen as failed travellers, cautious and conventional travellers and those who did not conform to the adventurous heroine stereotype. Because travelling as a woman and writing as a woman presents the author with a number of textual problems which must be negotiated, Foster and Mills have chosen to include writings which confronted these problems and which resolved them (or did not resolve them) in different ways. These textual problems include the depiction of other women, the representation of spatial relations, the negotiations undertaken in relation to the adventure heroine narrative and character and the position taken by the author in relation to the representation of knowledge. These issues are all crucial in relation to travel writing by women , and the women, whose writing has been collected together in this anthology have made bold decisions in relation to them. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Travellers in Africa

        British travelogues, 1850-1900

        by Timothy Youngs

        Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2022

        Taking travel home

        by Emma Gleadhill, Julie Hardwick

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2000

        Three Renaissance Travel Plays

        by Paul Edmondson, Tony Parr, Martin White

        This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey vividly the fascination in early seventeenth-century England with travel and exploration.. Three dramas of wandering and adventure which explore the great diversity of responses in the period to the lures of tourism and colonial expansion and to challenges posed by the encounter with exotic places and peoples.. Intellectually distinguished edition now available in paperback for the first time.. This collection presents modernised texts with an extensive commentary and a full introduction to set the plays in their historical and cultural context. ;

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        March 2019

        Keep calm and travel

        Jetzt fängt das Leben erst richtig an

        by Brömme, Bettina

        Leben ist das, was passiert, während du andere Pläne machst! Das erfährt Alwa bei ihrer Neuseeland-Reise am eigenen Leib. Ihr Praktikumsplatz existiert nicht und die spontan angenommene Stelle als Au-pair ist zum Davonlaufen. Wenigstens taugen ihre Erlebnisse für witzige Instagram-Posts. Alles scheint gut zu werden, als sie einen Job in einem Kinderhilfsprojekt ergattert. Denn zwischen Windeln wechseln und Wal-Touren lässt Laurin ihr Herz schneller schlagen. Doch dann erschüttert ein Erdbeben die Stadt und von Laurin fehlt plötzlich jede Spur. Alwa setzt all ihre Hoffnungen auf ihre Instagram-Follower: Irgendjemand muss ihn doch gesehen haben …

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      • Biography & True Stories
        March 1905

        Alaska Days with John Muir

        by Samuel Hall Young

        Samuel Hall Young, a Presbyterian clergyman, met John Muir when the great naturalist's steamboat docked at Fort Wrangell, in southeastern Alaska, where Young was a missionary to the Stickeen Indians. In "Alaska Days With John Muir" he describes this 1879 meeting: "A hearty grip of the hand and we seemed to coalesce in a friendship which, to me at least, has been one of the very best things in a life full of blessings." This book, first published in 1915, describes two journeys of discovery taken in company with Muir in 1879 and 1880. Despite the pleas of his missionary colleagues that he not risk life and limb with "that wild Muir," Young accompanied Muir in the exploration of Glacier Bay. Upon Muir's return to Alaska in 1880, they traveled together and mapped the inside route to Sitka. Young describes Muir's ability to "slide" up glaciers, the broad Scotch he used when he was enjoying himself, and his natural affinity for Indian wisdom and theistic religion. From the gripping account of their near-disastrous ascent of Glenora Peak to Young's perspective on Muir's famous dog story "Stickeen," Alaska Days is an engaging record of a friendship grounded in the shared wonders of Alaska's wild landscapes.

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        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        April 2021

        Long Peace Street

        by Jonathan Chatwin

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2017

        The Hippie Trail

        by Sharif Gemie, Brian Ireland

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2019

        These Englands

        A conversation on national identity

        by Arthur Aughey

        The term 'conversation' is one of today's jargon terms. This book explores in depth what conversation means in national terms. Its premise is that to be English is to participate in a conversation about the country's history, politics, culture and society. The conversation changes, of course, but there is also continuity which illustrates a distinct tradition. It is a conversation, the book argues, which requires the plural notion of these Englands rather than the singularity of this England. Englishness, then, is the tone, register and idiom of it subject matters, its anxieties and certainties, differences and commonalities. The book explores the English conversation through historical, political, literary and popular voices and tries to identify the character of contemporary Englishness.

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        March 2023

        Der Weg ist das Ziel. Slow Travel für Kinder

        40 Reiseabenteuer

        by Carl Honoré, Kevin Howdeshell, Kristen Howdeshell, Christiane Landgrebe

        Jede Reise kann ein kleines Abenteuer sein – bei dem es aber nicht darum geht, möglichst schnell irgendwo anzukommen. Denn: Der Weg ist das Ziel. Genau das ist die Idee des Slow Travel, des langsamen Reisens. Wer sich beim Unterwegssein Zeit nimmt zum Entdecken, zum Innehalten und Staunen, kann bewusster die Schönheit und Vielfalt unserer Welt erleben. Gleichzeitig ist diese Art zu Reisen viel klimafreundlicher. Statt schneller Verkehrsmittel nutzt man den Zug, das Fahrrad oder die eigenen Füße. Dieses Buch stellt 40 aufregende Slow-Travel-Reiserouten auf der ganzen Welt vor: Von der entspannten Bootsfahrt auf dem Mississippi über die Fahrradtour durch neun Länder entlang der Ostseeküste bis zur Zugfahrt in die wolkenverhangenen Berge Argentiniens. Und es erinnert immer wieder an den Zauber der kleinen Dinge, der jeden Ort zu etwas Besonderem macht – wenn wir nur genau hinsehen.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2021

        Beautyscapes

        by Ruth Holliday, Meredith Jones, David Bell

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2023

        Imperial steam

        by Jonathan Stafford

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        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        February 2022

        Driving with strangers

        by Jonathan Purkis

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2024

        Inventing the modern region

        by Talitha Ilacqua

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