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A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis (Hardcover): Andrew Samuels, Bani Shorter, Fred Plaut A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis (Hardcover)
Andrew Samuels, Bani Shorter, Fred Plaut
R3,719 Discovery Miles 37 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The language of Jung's writings, and of analytical psychology generally, is sometimes difficult to understand. This guide, in dictionary format, combines scholarship and historical accuracy with a stimulating, critical attitude.

Birds of Passage - Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801 (Paperback): Nancy Shields Birds of Passage - Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801 (Paperback)
Nancy Shields
R408 R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Save R65 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Henrietta is a true original. Clever, vivacious and interested in everything, she managed to balance the demands of high profile public life with that of a caring mother. She was the home-schooled daughter of a bankrupt Earl and more than just a little bit in love with her handsome wayward brother, but had been married off to a plump pudding of a man, the nabob Edward Clive, governor of Madras. And her partial escape was to ride across southern India (in a vast tented caravan propelled by dozens of elephants, camels and a hundred bullock carts) and write home. For centuries this account, the first joyful description of India by a British woman, remained unread in a Welsh castle. Fortunately it was transcribed by a Texan traveller, who went on to splice this already evocative memoir with complementary sections from the diary of Henrietta's precocious daughter, the 12-year old Charly and images of their artist companion, Anna Tonelli. The resulting labour of love and scholarship is Birds of Passage, a unique trifocular account of three very different women travelling across southern India in the late 18th century, in the immediate aftermath of the last of the Mysore Wars between Tipoo Sahib and the Raj. Half a generation later, the well travelled Charly would be chosen as tutor for the young princess Victoria, the First Empress of India.

In the Shadow of Mount McKinley (Paperback): William N. Beach In the Shadow of Mount McKinley (Paperback)
William N. Beach
R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The last great wilderness America has to offer...Alaska. Many people have longed to leave the hustle and bustle of everyday life and journey into the great unknown to hunt for big game and survive by their wits. In the Shadow of Mount McKinley brings all of this excitement to life with riveting stories by one of the world's most famous big game hunters. The thrill of the hunt, the exhilaration of forging through uncharted territory, and illustrations by Carl Rungius (one of the most important wildlife artists of the 20th century) make In the Shadow of Mount McKinley unforgettable reading.

An Arab Ambassador in the Mediterranean World - The Travels of Muhammad ibn 'Uthman al-Miknasi, 1779-1788 (Hardcover):... An Arab Ambassador in the Mediterranean World - The Travels of Muhammad ibn 'Uthman al-Miknasi, 1779-1788 (Hardcover)
Nabil Matar
R4,619 Discovery Miles 46 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides translated selections from the writings of Muhammad Ibn Othman al-Miknasi (d. 1799). The only writings by an Arab-Muslim in the pre-modern period that present a comparative perspective, his travelogues provide unique insight with in to Christendom and Islam. Translating excerpts from his three travelogues, this book tells the story of al-Miknasi's travels from 1779-1788. As an ambassador, al-Miknasi was privy to court life, government offices and religious buildings, and he provides detailed accounts of cities, people, customs, ransom negotiations, historical events and political institutions. Including descriptions of Europeans, Arabs, Turks, Christians (both European and Eastern), Muslims, Jews, and (American) Indians in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, An Arab Ambassador in the Mediterranean World explores how the most travelled Muslim writer of the pre-modern period saw the world: from Spain to Arabia and from Morocco to Turkey, with second-hand information about the New World. Supplemented with extensive notes detailing the historic and political relevance of the translations, this book is of interest to researchers and scholars of Mediterranean History, Ottoman Studies and Muslim-Christian relations.

Jewish Travellers (Paperback, abridged edition): Elkan Nathan Adler Jewish Travellers (Paperback, abridged edition)
Elkan Nathan Adler
R1,612 Discovery Miles 16 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1930. The wandering Jew is a very real character in the great drama of history. He has travelled as nomad and settler, as fugitive and conqueror, as exile and colonist and as merchant and scholar. Of necessity bilingual and therefore the master of many languages, the Jew was the ideal commercial traveller and interpreter. Based on the volume of 24 Hebrew texts of Jewish travellers by J D Eisenstein, this volume begins with the ninth century. After the sixteenth century geographical discoveries had made the whole world familiar to most people. Consequently, the wandering Jew becomes less the diplomatist or scientist but still remains a link between the scattered members of the Diaspora. The volume ends in the middle of the eighteenth century and taken as a whole provides a survey of Jewish travel during the Middle Ages. For this translation, some of the texts have been abridged, whilst retaining many of the original notes.

A Critical Dictionary Of Jungian Analysis (Paperback): Andrew Samuels, Bani Shorter, Fred Plaut A Critical Dictionary Of Jungian Analysis (Paperback)
Andrew Samuels, Bani Shorter, Fred Plaut
R1,335 Discovery Miles 13 350 Ships in 9 - 17 working days


The language of Jung's writings, and of analytical psychology generally, is sometimes difficult to understand. This guide, in dictionary format, combines scholarship and historical accuracy with a stimulating, critical attitude.

Writing Travel in Central Asian History (Paperback): Nile Green Writing Travel in Central Asian History (Paperback)
Nile Green; Contributions by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Ron Sela, Laura Hostetler, Abbas Amanat, …
R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs. The representations of the region brought home to China and Japan, India and Persia, Russia and Great Britain, provide valuable evidence that helps map earlier periods of globalization and cultural interaction.

The First Englishmen in India - Letters and Narratives of Sundry Elizabethans written by themselves (Paperback): J.Courtenay... The First Englishmen in India - Letters and Narratives of Sundry Elizabethans written by themselves (Paperback)
J.Courtenay Locke
R1,500 Discovery Miles 15 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1930. This volume contains letters and narratives of some of the Elizabethans who went to India. Here the beginnings of the British Indian Empire can be seen, arising out of the trading operations of the East India Company.

The Diary of Henry Teonge - Chaplain on Board H.M's Ships Assistance, Bristol and Royal Oak 1675-1679 (Paperback): G.E.... The Diary of Henry Teonge - Chaplain on Board H.M's Ships Assistance, Bristol and Royal Oak 1675-1679 (Paperback)
G.E. Manwaring
R1,511 Discovery Miles 15 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1927. 'This diary is history' The Observer This is the first complete published edition of Teonge's Diary. The edition of 1825, besides omitting several passages, contained many faulty transcriptions which have now been corrected for this edition. An intensely human document, enlivened with sketches of the people he met and places he visited, Teonge's Diary is one of the finest accounts of life on board ship in the seventeenth century. When not at sea, Henry Teonge's life was as a parson and this edition of his Diary includes a full inventory for his Parish, providing an excellent source of historical and social information on rural life in the late 1600s.

Writing Travel in Central Asian History (Hardcover): Nile Green Writing Travel in Central Asian History (Hardcover)
Nile Green; Contributions by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Ron Sela, Laura Hostetler, Abbas Amanat, …
R2,021 R1,736 Discovery Miles 17 360 Save R285 (14%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs. The representations of the region brought home to China and Japan, India and Persia, Russia and Great Britain, provide valuable evidence that helps map earlier periods of globalization and cultural interaction.

Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-54 (Hardcover, Facsimile of 1929 ed): Ibn Batuta Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-54 (Hardcover, Facsimile of 1929 ed)
Ibn Batuta; Translated by Hamilton Gibb
R1,445 Discovery Miles 14 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ibn Battuta, the greatest of all the medieval travellers, was in Tangier in 1304. At the age of nineteen he set out on his travels that were eventually to take him over 75,000 miles through all of the Muslim world. His book, in which he describes the cultural life and beauty of those times, remains one of the most famous of all travel narratives. The value of the work to historians and students is beyond question, but perhaps its true worth lies in the freshness of its narrative style. Throughout, we are aware of the author's own human and compassionate insights and, even after six centuries, it remains a delight and pleasure to read. This fine facsimile edition, originally published in 1929, is enhanced by the inclusion of several exquisite prints, with maps of the journeys undertaken during Ibn Battuta's remarkable life.

An Ottoman Traveller (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Evliya Celebi An Ottoman Traveller (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Evliya Celebi; Translated by Robert Dankoff, Sooyong Kim
R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Evliya Celebi was the 17th century's most diligent, adventurous, and honest recorder, whose puckish wit and humor are laced throughout his ten-volume masterpiece. This brand new translation brings Evliya sparklingly back to life. "Well worth a read."-Irish Echo 7/2011

Pearls Arms & Hashish (Paperback): Monfried Pearls Arms & Hashish (Paperback)
Monfried
R1,498 Discovery Miles 14 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The American Diaries of Count de Berlaymont - Some Primary Source Material from a Diary of a Young Belgian... (Paperback):... The American Diaries of Count de Berlaymont - Some Primary Source Material from a Diary of a Young Belgian... (Paperback)
Count Guy de Berlaymont; Translated by S. M Harris
R1,626 Discovery Miles 16 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The American Diaries of Count de Berlaymont is the first-ever English translation of a nineteenth-century French travel narrative, outlaying the adventurous travels of Count Guy de Berlaymont throughout the United States and Cuba. Perhaps most interesting are de Berlaymont's descriptions and observations on travel, culture, and politics, which serve as firsthand historical accounting of the two countries. Young de Berlaymont was a frequent traveler and his American adventure remained important to him throughout his life. Publication of travel accounts-particularly popular in Europe and America in the mid- to late nineteenth century-helped fulfill two needs: (1) They served as surrogates for participation for those unable to travel; and (2) They acted as authoritative descriptions of places and historical events. The value of de Berlaymont's travel diary lies in its important source material as well as the Count's commentaries on the distinct flavor of American life.

Gleams From Japan (Paperback): S. Katsumata Gleams From Japan (Paperback)
S. Katsumata
R1,464 Discovery Miles 14 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1937, this collection presents a series of vignettes on Japanese life and thought, taken from 25 years of the author's work for the Japanese tourist board between 1912 and 1937. Dealing in subjects as diverse as wrestling, singing insects and Japanese humour, this reissue offers a fascinating insight into the life and culture of pre-World War Two Japan which is of great historical interest, not only to students of Asian studies but to all those interested in Japan, its people and its heritage.

Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830 - Nationalism, Ideology, Gender (Hardcover): Alison Martin, Susan Pickford Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830 - Nationalism, Ideology, Gender (Hardcover)
Alison Martin, Susan Pickford
R4,631 Discovery Miles 46 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines how non-fictional travel accounts were rewritten, reshaped, and reoriented in translation between 1750 and 1850, a period that saw a sudden surge in the genre's popularity. It explores how these translations played a vital role in the transmission and circulation of knowledge about foreign peoples, lands, and customs in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. The collection makes an important contribution to travel writing studies by looking beyond metaphors of mobility and cultural transfer to focus specifically on what happens to travelogues in translation. Chapters range from discussing essential differences between the original and translated text to relations between authors and translators, from intra-European narratives of Grand Tour travel to scientific voyages round the world, and from established male travellers and translators to their historically less visible female counterparts. Drawing on European travel writing in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, the book charts how travelogues were selected for translation; how they were reworked to acquire new aesthetic, political, or gendered identities; and how they sometimes acquired a radically different character and content to meet the needs and expectations of an emergent international readership. The contributors address aesthetic, political, and gendered aspects of travel writing in translation, drawing productively on other disciplines and research areas that encompass aesthetics, the history of science, literary geography, and the history of the book.

Japan Extolled and Decried - Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776 (Paperback): C.P. Thunberg Japan Extolled and Decried - Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776 (Paperback)
C.P. Thunberg; Edited by Timon Screech
R1,629 Discovery Miles 16 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edition makes available once again Thunberg's extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus - of the great fathers of modern science - spent eighteen fascinating months in the notoriously inaccessible Japan in 1775-1776, and this is his story. Thunberg studied at Uppsala University in Sweden where he was a favourite student of the great Linnaeus, father of modern scientific classification. He determined to travel the world and enlisted as a physician with the Dutch East India Company. He arrived in Japan in the summer of 1775 and stayed for eighteen months. He observed Japan widely, and travelled to Edo (modern Tokyo) where he became friends with the shogun's private physician, Katsuragawa Hoshu, a fine Scholar and a notorious rake. They maintained a correspondence even after Thunberg had returned to his homeland. Thunberg's 'Travels' appeared in English in 1795 and until now has never been reprinted. Fully annotated and introduced by Timon Screech.

Narratives of Travel and Tourism (Hardcover, New edition): Jacqueline Tivers, Tijana Rakic Narratives of Travel and Tourism (Hardcover, New edition)
Jacqueline Tivers, Tijana Rakic
R4,623 Discovery Miles 46 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Travel and tourism 'stories' have been told and recorded within every culture, in every period of oral and written history, and across the breadth of the fact/fiction continuum. Taking two broad themes as its starting point - travellers and their narratives, and place narratives in travel and tourism - the book has a deliberately wide scope, with different chapters addressing the subject through various relevant 'lenses' and in relation to a number of different contexts. The narratives discussed include both historical and contemporary, as well as 'real-life' and fictional, narratives contained within travel writing, travel and tourism stories and different types of media. In relation to the principal themes of the book, some chapters also explore the importance of collecting memorabilia and image making in the recording, remembering, writing, telling or disseminating of stories about travel and tourism experiences and some examine the ways in which travel and tourism narratives may construct and reinforce personal, collective and place identities. The whole book is marked by an over-arching concern for narrative interpretation as a means of understanding, and providing a new perspective on, travel and tourism.

Tanpinar's 'Five Cities' (Paperback): Ahmed Hamdi Tanpinar Tanpinar's 'Five Cities' (Paperback)
Ahmed Hamdi Tanpinar; Translated by Ruth Christie
R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mark Twain's Travel Literature - The Odyssey of a Mind (Paperback): Harold H. Hellwig Mark Twain's Travel Literature - The Odyssey of a Mind (Paperback)
Harold H. Hellwig
R1,133 R914 Discovery Miles 9 140 Save R219 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This critical study analyzes major concepts in the travel literature of Mark Twain and notes how his ouvre (including his classic works of fiction) revolves around travel as a central issue. The book focuses especially on his representations of time, place, and identity in the travel works ""Roughing It"", ""A Tramp Abroad"", ""The Innocents Abroad"", ""Life on The Mississippi"", and ""Following the Equator"". All receive an in-depth analysis, nothing Twain's strong sense of nostalgia for the disappearing American frontier, his growing concern over the assimilation of Native American cultures, and his continual search for a sense of personal and national identity. One appendix provides a complete list of the travel literature contained in Twain's personal library.

Traveling Europe Between the World Wars (Hardcover): Jeffrey N. Dupee Traveling Europe Between the World Wars (Hardcover)
Jeffrey N. Dupee
R2,323 Discovery Miles 23 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Traveling Europe between the World Wars is a study of "armchair" travel writers who journeyed to Europe during the interwar period of 1919-1939. They traveled the continent for two main reasons: to chronicle the political and social upheavals of the age through encounters with "ordinary" Europeans and to revel in the legendary, idyllic Europe of their earthly dreams. As post-World War I traumas, the Great Depression, and the sudden rise of fascist and communist ideologies wracked the continent, the writers were struck by how many people felt another world war was inevitable. This study focuses on travel conversations writers experienced on trains, along roadsides, or in cafes, homes, and inns as they sought the real Europe stripped of press reports and government propaganda. What they found was a continent in transition-where a cherished past was colliding with an ominous future.

The British and the Grand Tour (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover): Jeremy Black The British and the Grand Tour (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
Jeremy Black
R4,637 Discovery Miles 46 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1985, this is a history of the Grand Tour, undertaken by young men in the eighteenth century to complete their education - a tour usually to France, Italy and Switzerland, and sometimes encompassing Germany. Rather than being another popular treatment of the theme, this is a scholarly analysis of the motives, purposes, activities and achievements of those who made the Grand Tour.

The book considers to what extent the Grand Tour did fulfil its theoretical educational function, or whether travellers merely parroted the observations of their guidebooks. It also indicates the importance of the Grand Tour in introducing foreign customs into Britain and extending the cosmopolitanism of the European upper classes.

Mission to the Volga (Paperback): Ahmad Ibn Fadlan Mission to the Volga (Paperback)
Ahmad Ibn Fadlan; Foreword by Tim Severin; Translated by James E Montgomery
R417 R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. In this colorful documentary from the tenth century, the enigmatic Ibn Fadlan relates his experiences as part of an embassy sent by Caliph al-Muqtadir to deliver political and religious instruction to the recently-converted King of the Bulghars. During eleven months of grueling travel, Ibn Fadlan records the marvels he witnesses on his journey, including an aurora borealis and the white nights of the North. Crucially, he offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs, clothing, body painting, and a striking account of a ship funeral. Together, these anecdotes illuminate a vibrant world of diversity during the heyday of the Abbasid Empire, narrated with as much curiosity and zeal as they were perceived by its observant beholder. An English-only edition.

Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns - Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822 (Paperback, Annotated Ed): Isaac Titsingh Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns - Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822 (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
Isaac Titsingh; Edited by Timon Screech
R1,802 Discovery Miles 18 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Isaac Titsingh was intermittently head of the Japan factory (trading station) of the Dutch East India Company 1780-94. He was a career merchant, but unusual in having a classical education and training as a physician. His impact in Japan was enormous, but he left disappointed in the ability of the country to embrace change. After many years in Java, India and China, he came to London, and then settled in Paris where he devoted himself to compiling translations of prime Japanese texts. It is one of the most exciting anthologies of the period and reveals the almost unknown world of eighteenth-century Japan, discussing politics, history, poetry and rituals. The Illustrations of Japan appeared posthumously in 1821-1822 in English, French and Dutch. This fully annotated edition makes the original English version available for the first time in nearly two centuries

Impressions of Cuba in the Nineteenth Century - The Travel Diary of Joseph J. Dimock (Paperback): Louis A Perez Impressions of Cuba in the Nineteenth Century - The Travel Diary of Joseph J. Dimock (Paperback)
Louis A Perez
R1,035 Discovery Miles 10 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Joseph J. Dimock's descriptions of Cuba in his travel diary provide a remarkable firsthand view of a fascinating period in the island's history. In the mid-nineteenth century, the United States was pursuing manifest destiny. The war with Mexico had resulted in a vast increase of national territory, and many north Americans wanted Cuba as the next acquisition. In addition to annexationist plots, Cuban life was marked by slave conspiracies, colonial insurrections, economic expansion, and political intrigue. Impressions of Cuba in the Nineteenth Century describes the social, economic and political conditions in the 1850s. Dimock's entries of his travels and observations as an American reveal details of Cuban agriculture, plant life, and natural resources. The diary also provides elaborate accounts of the sugar industry, extensive commentary on the daily live of slaves, Spaniards, and Cubans. Dimock's curiosity led him around the island, into prisons, salons, and other unusual places, resulting in a wide-ranging account of Cuban life. Impressions of Cuba in the Nineteenth Century provides a highly accessible, entertaining, and insightful look at Cuba.

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