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Russia in the Shadows (Paperback, Main): H. G. Wells Russia in the Shadows (Paperback, Main)
H. G. Wells
R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

H. G. Wells made three visits to Russia, this book being the result of his second in 1920. It's an understatement to say it was an interesting time to be in Russia. The Bolshevists were in power but still hardly in control, the Civil War having only just ended. The country was in a state of exhaustion and collapse. Wells visited St Petersburg and Moscow, and, most memorably, had an interview with Lenin (the chapter is called 'The Dreamer in the Kremlin'). The tone of the book is remarkably fair-minded and realistic, much to the annoyance of the right-wing press at the time in Great Britain, but Wells does have delicious fun at the expense of Marx. Here he is commenting on Das Kapital, 'his vast unfinished work ... a cadence of wearisome volumes about such phantom unrealities as the bourgeoisie and proletariat, a book for ever maundering away into tedious secondary discussions ...' And better still, here he is on Marx's beard: 'About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast, solemn, woolly, uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard, cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world. It is exactly like Das Kapital in its inane abundance ...' This book deserves a higher place in the H. G. Wells canon, it is journalism of the first order providing reading of interest and continuing relevance.

South African Winter (Paperback, Main): Jan Morris South African Winter (Paperback, Main)
Jan Morris
R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Jan Morris spent the South African winter of 1957 touring the country for the "Guardian." This book, the product of her travels, was not a political treatise but an evocation of the atmosphere of apartheid, and an impression of life in South Africa at a time of great tension.

There are glimpses of the Johannesburg treason trial and a one-day strike in the locations of the Reef; portraits of such diverse figures as Harry Oppenheimer, the magnate-politician, and Christopher Gell, the influential liberal who spent his days in an iron lung; impressions of the Parliament, of the Zululand reserve, of life in the mines and the open veldt.

Jan Morris visited all four provinces and talked to an immense number of people of all persuasions and all walks of life, and she devotes a chapter to the individualities of the Afrikaner character, as it then struck an impartial and not unsympathetic observer.

South African Winter (1958) - in the brilliance of its writing, the wit, intelligence and sharpness of its observation - is a work of enduring fascination.

Pictures from Italy (Hardcover): Charles Dickens & Livia S Pictures from Italy (Hardcover)
Charles Dickens & Livia S
R389 R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Save R106 (27%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"A whimsical cross between a fairy tale and a travelogue. . . This version includes beautiful illustrated collages by the Italian artist Livia Signorini." -"T, The New York Times Style Magazine"
"It is no wonder that Signorini was moved to assemble collages that embrace the span of time that clearly resonated with Dickens as he explored Italy. Images from antiquarian books cozy up to Photoshop embellishments like enlarged rigatoni, made even more impressive by the gatefold pages across which these compositions spread, complementing Dickens's running theme of the moment being everything and nothing, honoring the poignancy of stone, water, light, and shadow." - "Imprint," "Print" Magazine
"Pictures from Italy," one of Charles Dickens' earlier works, is a whimsical foray into the twin worlds of travel and the imagination. Italian artist Livia Signorini plays with Dickens' sense of place, memory, and politics. The result is a brilliant contemporary dialogue with his work that renews our sense of his enduring vision. An extraordinary work that is as much about travel writing as it is about Dickens' journey to Italy itself, this handsome volume features 11 full-color gate folds.
US Grade Level Equivalent: 7-8+
US Guided Reading Level: Z
Lexile(R) Measure: 1200L

Wanderings in Arabia (Paperback, Main): Charles M. Doughty Wanderings in Arabia (Paperback, Main)
Charles M. Doughty
R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Wanderings in Arabia is an abridgement of Charles M. Doughty's masterwork, Travels in Arabia Deserta, which has been hailed as the finest travel account in the English language. It is the first book to be written, in any language, about wide tracts of the Arabian Penisula. Out of his remote and lonely wanderings, Doughty fashioned a lyrical evocation of the desert and the peoples who inhabit this mysterious world. In the estimation of fellow explorer Benedict Allen: 'The book, which brims with lively observations of human character, opened European eyes to the Arabian desert - not least Gertrude Bell, and later Wilfred Thesiger, who were profoundly influenced by it'. The great Arabist, T. E. Lawrence also enthused about Doughty's achievement: 'The book had no date and can never grow old. It is the first and indispensable work upon the Arabs of the desert'. For Jan Morris, the book is 'entirely unique ... Whether for the strange beauty of its language, its record of a tremendous adventure, or its accurate evocation of a landscape and a civilisation, Travels in Arabia Deserta is truly one of a kind'.

The Fearful Void (Paperback, Main): Geoffrey Moorhouse The Fearful Void (Paperback, Main)
Geoffrey Moorhouse
R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'It was because I was afraid that I had decided to attempt a crossing of the great Sahara desert, from west to east, by myself and by camel. No one had ever made such a journey before . . .' In October 1972 Geoffrey Moorhouse began his odyssey across the Sahara from the Atlantic to the Nile, a distance of 3,600 miles. His reason for undertaking such an immense feat was to examine the roots of his fear, to explore an extremity of human experience. From the outset misfortune was never far away; and as he moved further into that 'awful emptiness' the physical and mental deprivation grew more intense. In March 1973, having walked the last 300 miles, Moorhouse, ill and exhausted, reached Tamanrasset, where he decided to end his journey. The Fearful Void is the moving record of his struggle with fear and loneliness and, ultimately, his coming to terms with the spiritual as well as the physical dangers of the desert.

Indian Travel Writing, 1830-1947 (Hardcover): Pramod K Nayar Indian Travel Writing, 1830-1947 (Hardcover)
Pramod K Nayar
R33,950 Discovery Miles 339 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Indian Travel Writing is a new five-volume collection co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse. Hitherto, the paucity of readily available travel writing produced by imperial subjects themselves has long been apparent, and this anthology addresses that lack. A veritable treasure-trove, it brings together scarce documents which are currently widely dispersed or very difficult for scholars, researchers, and students across the globe to locate and use. The collection confirms the deeply cosmopolitan sensibility possessed by many Indian travellers, and their narratives provide insightful contemporary critiques of the British Empire and of Euro-American culture more generally. The gathered works often exhibit considerable expertise in local cuisine, politics, and poetry, as well as a keen interest in political theory, human rights, and class conflict. Beyond Britain, continental Europe, and the USA, the collection also includes writing by Indians who travelled to Russia, China, the Far East, Australia, and Africa. Indian Travel Writing draws on the narratives of a diverse range of writers, including Indian princes, statesmen, lawyers, reformers, sportsmen, artists and curators, politicians, and merchants. Each piece is reproduced in facsimile, giving users a strong sense of immediacy to the texts and permitting citation to the original pagination. The collection will be particularly welcomed by historians and those working in colonial-discourse studies. It will also be of interest to anthropologists and literary scholars. Each volume is supplemented by a substantial introduction, newly written by the editor, Pramod K. Nayar. The collection also includes a detailed appendix providing data on the provenance of the gathered materials. *********************** Pramod K. Nayar is also the editor of the five-volume Women in Colonial India (2013) (978-0-415-52555-8), another Routledge and Edition Synapse co-publication.

Women's Travel Writings in Scotland - 'Letters from the Mountains' by Anne Grant and 'Letters from the... Women's Travel Writings in Scotland - 'Letters from the Mountains' by Anne Grant and 'Letters from the North Highlands' by Elizabeth Isabella Spence (Hardcover)
Kirsteen McCue, Pamela Perkins
R10,677 Discovery Miles 106 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection includes the first critical editions of both Anne Grant's Letters from the Mountains (1806), one of the Romantic era's most successful non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands, and Elizabeth Isabella Spence's Letters from the North Highlands (1816), a work that, while influenced by Grant's Letters, attempted to move the genre of the Scottish travelogue in new directions. Read together, these volumes offer complementary views of Scottish Highland life at a time of major historical transition: Grant was offering outsiders her perspective as a long-time resident of the region, while Spence was, unapologetically, writing as a tourist. The Highlands were central to Romantic-era debates on subjects ranging from landscape and aesthetics to national identities, and, as this collection demonstrates, women were making significant contributions to those debates. The four volume set, edited by Kirsteen McCue and Pam Perkins, is accompanied by new editorial material including a new general introduction and headnotes to each work.

The Women of Cairo: Volume I (Routledge Revivals) - Scenes of Life in the Orient (Paperback): Gerard De Nerval The Women of Cairo: Volume I (Routledge Revivals) - Scenes of Life in the Orient (Paperback)
Gerard De Nerval
R1,140 Discovery Miles 11 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Women of Cairo: Scenes of Life in the Orient, first published in 1926, describes the trip to Egypt and other locations in the Ottoman Empire taken by French Romanticist Gerard de Nerval. The book focuses on both reinforcing and dispelling the old ways in which people saw the Orient, as well as examining their old and new customs. This book is perfect for those studying history and travel.

Renaissance Mad Voyages - Experiments in Early Modern English Travel (Hardcover, New Ed): Anthony Parr Renaissance Mad Voyages - Experiments in Early Modern English Travel (Hardcover, New Ed)
Anthony Parr
R3,898 Discovery Miles 38 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A vogue for travel 'stunts' flourished in England between 1590 and the 1620s: playful imitations or burlesques of maritime enterprise and overland travel that collectively appear to be a response to particular innovations and developments in English culture. This study is the first full length scholarly work to focus on the curious phenomenon of 'madde voiages', as the writer William Rowley called them. Anthony Parr shows that the mad voyage (as Rowley and others conceived it) had surprisingly deep and diverse roots in traditional travel practices, in courtly play and mercantile custom, and in literary culture. Looking in detail at several of the best-documented exploits, Parr situates them in the ferment of such ventures during the period in question; but also reaches back to explore their classical and mediaeval antecedents, and considers their role in creating a template for eccentric English adventure in later centuries. Renaissance Mad Voyages brings together literary and historical enquiry in order to address the implications of an interesting and neglected cultural trend. Parr's investigation of the rash of travel exploits in the period leads to extensive research on the origins of the wager on travel and its role in the expansion of English tourism and trading activity.

Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East, Part II (Hardcover): Betty Hagglund Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East, Part II (Hardcover)
Betty Hagglund
R8,698 Discovery Miles 86 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1821, Catherine Hutton published 'The Tour of Africa', a three-volume work covering the entire continent. Although the book is framed as a first-person narrative and told in the voice of 'the son of an English country gentleman of good family', it is in fact a compilation of existing travel accounts, including those of Pococke, Bruce, Denon, Barrow, and Sonnini. Here, extracts from these accounts are woven together without attribution, creating a text which is both factual and fictional.

Travel Report - An Apprenticeship in the Earl of Derby's Kitchen Gardens and Greenhouses at Knowsley, England (Paperback,... Travel Report - An Apprenticeship in the Earl of Derby's Kitchen Gardens and Greenhouses at Knowsley, England (Paperback, New)
Hans Jancke, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmah, MIC Hale
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R820 R740 Discovery Miles 7 400 Save R80 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For centuries, travel was an important part of a gardener's initial and continuing professional training. Educational journeys to parks and gardens at home and abroad were consistently recorded in lengthy reports and articles for professional journals. The travel report by Hans Jancke (1850-1920), a court gardener who served the Prussian kings in Potsdam, Germany, is typical of this genre. Jancke's manuscript, which until now remained unpublished, describes his 1874-1875 apprenticeship at Knowsley, the seat of the Earl of Derby near Liverpool, England.

Voyage to Guinea, Brazil and the West Indies in HMS Swallow and Weymouth (Hardcover, New Ed Of 1735 Ed): John Atkins Voyage to Guinea, Brazil and the West Indies in HMS Swallow and Weymouth (Hardcover, New Ed Of 1735 Ed)
John Atkins
R3,896 Discovery Miles 38 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1735, this account focuses on the customs, food, languages and religions of the peoples in the islands and settlements visited. It also has remarks on the gold, ivory and slave trades.

South (Paperback, 2nd Second Edition, Second Ed.): Merlin Coverley South (Paperback, 2nd Second Edition, Second Ed.)
Merlin Coverley 1
R348 R135 Discovery Miles 1 350 Save R213 (61%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Artists and writers from the colder climes of northern Europe have long felt the lure of the South of the continent. Goethe was revitalised by his encounters with Mediterranean culture on his journey to Italy. Nietzsche took flight southwards to begin his life anew, while DH Lawrence sought the health-giving southern sun in Sicily and Sardinia. But across the centuries, other outposts of the South have provoked a similar obsession. The South Seas cast a spell over figures such as Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin. The American Deep South and the southermost reaches of Latin America have been celebrated in the works of writers as diverse as John Muir, Jack Kerouac and Jorge Luis Borges. While the Great White South of the Antarctic has provided the backdrop to the darkest imaginings of Coleridge, Poe and Lovecraft. Even London, south of the river, is a place where novelists compete today to stake out a literary territory of their own. Moving between geography and mythology, literature and history, South is the first book to look at all things Southern in one volume. It examines the idea of the South as a symbol of freedom and escape, as well as the depository for many of our deepest unconscious fears and desires. It also charts the history of the South as the chosen location for the utopian visions of the North. From the beaches of Tahiti to the streets of Buenos Aires, from Naples to New Orleans, Merlin Coverley's brilliant and wide-ranging study throws light on the ways in which the idea of the South, in all its forms, has come to exert such a powerful hold on our collective imaginations.

Women's Travel Writings in Post-Napoleonic France, Part II (Hardcover): Benjamin Colbert Women's Travel Writings in Post-Napoleonic France, Part II (Hardcover)
Benjamin Colbert
R15,088 Discovery Miles 150 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This eight-volume set in two parts gives voice to some intrepid women travellers touring post-Napoleonic France. The volumes are facsimile editions and are introduced and edited by experts in their field.

Charles Robert Cockerell in the Mediterranean - Letters and Travels, 1810-1817 (Hardcover): Susan Pearce, Theresa Ormrod Charles Robert Cockerell in the Mediterranean - Letters and Travels, 1810-1817 (Hardcover)
Susan Pearce, Theresa Ormrod
R1,428 Discovery Miles 14 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Charles R. Cockerell (1788-1863) was one of the most significant nineteenth-century British architects and a major player in the cultural shift from the Georgian eighteenth to the Victorian nineteenth century. Charles R. Cockerell (1788-1863) was one of the most significant nineteenth-century British architects and a major player in the cultural shift from the Georgian eighteenth to the Victorian nineteenth century. Cockerell's travelsin the eastern Mediterranean between 1810 and 1817 were the formative experience of his life. His forty letters from this period, held in the archives of the Royal Institute of British Architects and published here for the first time, give crucial day-to-day insights into his actions, thoughts and feelings in relation to the intricate histories of the re-discovery and sales of the Aegina and Bassae marbles and, equally importantly, illuminate his hugely significant work on temple architecture and sculpture in mainland Greece, the great cities of Asia Minor, and the significant temples of Sicily. Drawing on these letters, and on some 150 unpublished letters sent by his friends while they were all in Greece and now held in the British Museum, this book elucidates what Cockerell did and why by analyzing his methods of work and their significance. It discusses Cockerell's aesthetic and conceptual development during his time abroad, particularly his influential part in the changing vision of Greek sculpture and architecture, from Winkelmann's static ideal to one rooted in dramatic tension and contextual contingency. The book unravels the emergence of Cockerell's crucial historical perspective and shows how he arrived at a new view of the ancient Greek past as made up of real lived lives, rather than just existing as a back drop to the present. By offeringa complete edition of the RIBA letters, this book fills a significant gap in our understanding of the thought and work of one of the formative spirits of nineteenth century visual historical culture. SUSAN PEARCE is Professor Emeritus of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. THERESA ORMROD has extensive experience in archival research, manuscript transcription and editing.

Travels in Asia and Africa - 1325-1354 (Paperback): Ibn Battuta Travels in Asia and Africa - 1325-1354 (Paperback)
Ibn Battuta; Translated by H. A. R. Gibb
R1,352 Discovery Miles 13 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'One of the most fascinating travel books of all time' Times Literary Supplement 'He could not have been more 'modern' if he had been born in the twentieth century' Evening Standard Ibn Battuta was the only medieval traveller who is known to have visited the lands of every Muhammadan ruler of his time and the extent of his journeys is estimated to be at least 75,000 miles. His work presents a descriptive account of Muhammadan society in the second quarter of the fourteenth century, which illustrates, among other things, how wide the sphere of influence of the Muslim merchants was. Ibn Battuta's interest in places was subordinate to his interest in people and his geographical knowledge was gained entirely from personal experience. For his details he relied exclusively on his memory, cultivated by the system of a theological education. This edition, translated afresh from the Arabic text, provides extensive notes which enable the journeys to be followed in detail. Important historical and religious background to the Travels is also added by H. A. R. Gibb.

Women's Travel Writings in Post-Napoleonic France, Part I (Hardcover): Benjamin Colbert Women's Travel Writings in Post-Napoleonic France, Part I (Hardcover)
Benjamin Colbert
R10,816 Discovery Miles 108 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This eight-volume facsimile set comprises firsthand accounts of continental travel in the early nineteenth century. Anne Carter witnesses the monarchy's return to power and the capital in her visit to Paris, while Frances Jane Carey ranges all over the country and particularizes the customs and everyday existence of its people. Marianne Baillie ventures much further afield in her 1819 work, exploring France, Italy and Switzerland, among other nations, while Elizabeth Byron daringly rides a boat along the Loire, defying the gendarmes as she navigates the culture and history she finds on the river's banks as well as the contemporary political exchanges that threaten to stop her tour. Each writer is excited about visiting new realms while also affirming the differences between their own country's practices and landscapes and those they witness on their Continental tours.

More Dashing - Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (Paperback): Patrick Leigh Fermor More Dashing - Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (Paperback)
Patrick Leigh Fermor; Volume editing by Adam Sisman 1
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R342 R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Save R60 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor

The first collection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dashing for the Post, delighted critics and public alike. This second volume, More Dashing, presents a further selection of letters that exude a zest for life and adventure characteristic of the man known to all as 'Paddy'.

Paddy's exuberant letters contain glimpses of the great and the good: a chance conversation with the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, when Paddy opens the wrong door, or a glass of ouzo under the pine trees with Harold Macmillan. They describe encounters with such varied figures as Jackie Onassis, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Oswald Mosley and Peter Mandelson, while also relating adventures with the humble: a 'pick-nick' with the stonemasons at Kardamyli, or a drunken celebration in the Cretan mountains with his old comrades from the Resistance, most of them simple shepherds and goatherds. Paddy was at ease in any company - unfailingly charming, boyish, gentle and fun.

Patrick Leigh Fermor has long been recognised as one of the greatest travel writers of his time. Nowhere is his restless curiosity and delight in language more dazzlingly displayed than in his letters, skilfully edited in this collection by Adam Sisman.

British Travel Writing from China, 1798-1901 (Hardcover, Facsimile edition): Elizabeth H. Chang British Travel Writing from China, 1798-1901 (Hardcover, Facsimile edition)
Elizabeth H. Chang
R19,935 Discovery Miles 199 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.

The End of the Road - A Journey Around Britain in Search of the Dead (Paperback): Jack Cooke The End of the Road - A Journey Around Britain in Search of the Dead (Paperback)
Jack Cooke
R238 Discovery Miles 2 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous - and not so famous - tombs, graves and burial sites. Along the way, he launches a daredevil trespass into Highgate Cemetery at night, stumbles across the remains of the Welsh Druid who popularised cremation and has time to sit and ponder the imponderables at the graveside of the Lady of Hoy, an 18th century suicide victim whose body was kept in near condition by the bog in which she was buried. A truly unique, beautifully written and wonderfully imagined book.

Moving Scenes - The Aesthetics of German Travel Writing on England 1783-1830 (Hardcover, New): Alison E. Martin Moving Scenes - The Aesthetics of German Travel Writing on England 1783-1830 (Hardcover, New)
Alison E. Martin
R2,484 Discovery Miles 24 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Accounts of travel to England reached unprecedented levels of popularity in the German states in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Competition therefore increased for travel writers to produce travelogues which offered the most authentic, original and vibrant picture of England. The wider range of narrative strategies which travellers consequently deployed increasingly drew on the emotional responses of their audience whether to serve a political purpose, show concern for the darker side to the Industrial Revolution or simply demonstrate the humanitarian interests of the travellers themselves. In this broad-ranging study, Alison E. Martin draws on a variety of travellers, men and women, canonical and forgotten, to chart the fascinating variety of styles and approaches which mark this highly interdisciplinary genre.

Georgia in the Mountains of Poetry (Paperback): Peter Nasmyth Georgia in the Mountains of Poetry (Paperback)
Peter Nasmyth 1
R396 R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Save R94 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Peter Nasmyth has lived in and travelled extensively throughout Georgia for the last 32 years. Georgia in the Mountains of Poetry is his fascinating account of this historically rich and drama loving country, based on his travels and hundreds of wide-ranging interviews. Reprinted numerous times, it remains the only comprehensive book on Georgia's history and culture written for the general reader, now substantially revised and expanded for this new edition. Georgia - no larger than Ireland - is the most geographical diverse country in the world for its size. It borders on the Black Sea and contains the heart of the Caucasus mountains, as well as subtropical wetlands and semi-arid regions. Stone towers attest to its 3,000-year-old history, which has witnessed the thousand-year reign of the Bagratuni monarchy, the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, a bitter civil war, the celebration of its independence in 1991 and the arrival of full democracy in 2012. Yet little is known about this remarkable nation outside its borders. Georgia in the Mountains of Poetry is the first book to provide its full inner story and remains essential reading for anyone interested in this fascinating region set on the historic far borders of Europe and Asia.

Islamic and Middle Eastern Travellers and Geographers (Hardcover, New): Ian Richard Netton Islamic and Middle Eastern Travellers and Geographers (Hardcover, New)
Ian Richard Netton; Edited by Ian Netton
R27,586 Discovery Miles 275 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The area of Middle Eastern geography and travel has attracted large numbers of scholars over the last fifty years. This new collection from Routledge features key articles from the field to create a major and continuing resource for scholars and students alike. The first volume concentrates on the Islamic geographers who mapped and made navigable the routes followed by later travellers. While travel, and in particular the rihla (or 'travel to Mecca') did not depend for its impetus on formal geography, both were highlighted in the travellers' diaries and travelogues which helped to make known and illuminate the boundaries of an expanding empire. Links between geography and the pilgrim routes to Mecca and Medina are particularly significant. Because of their huge significance in illuminating the medieval world of Islam, a very large number if articles deal with the travels of Ibn Jubayr (1145-1217) (Volume II) and Ibn Battuta (1304-368/9 or 1377) (Volume III), while Volume IV covers the post-medieval and early modern period.

Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New Ed): Thomas Betteridge Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
Thomas Betteridge
R4,156 Discovery Miles 41 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Early modern Europe was obsessed with borders and travel. It found, imagined and manufactured new borders for its travellers to cross. It celebrated and feared borders as places or states where meanings were charged and changed. In early modern Europe crossing a border could take many forms; sailing to the Americas, visiting a hospital or taking a trip through London's sewage system. Borders were places that people lived on, through and against. Some were temporary, like illness, while others claimed to be absolute, like that between the civilized world and the savage, but, as the chapters in this volume show, to cross any of them was an exciting, anxious and often a potentially dangerous act. Providing a trans-European interdisciplinary approach, the collection focuses on three particular aspects of travel and borders: change, status and function. To travel was to change, not only humans but texts, words, goods and money were all in motion at this time, having a profound influence on cultures, societies and individuals within Europe and beyond. Likewise, status was not a fixed commodity and the meaning and appearance of borders varied and could simultaneously be regarded as hostile and welcoming, restrictive and opportunistic, according to one's personal viewpoint. The volume also emphasizes the fact that borders always serve multiple functions, empowering and oppressing, protecting and threatening in equal measure. By using these three concepts as measures by which to explore a variety of subjects, Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe provides a fascinating new perspective from which to re-assess the way in which early modern Europeans viewed themselves, their neighbours and the wider world with which they were increasingly interacting.

To The Hebrides - Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour (Paperback):... To The Hebrides - Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour (Paperback)
Samuel Johnson, James Boswell; Edited by Ronald Black
R466 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Save R41 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring through the Lowlands and Highlands of Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Inchkenneth and Iona. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These works contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they are also magnificent historical documents as well as portraits of two extraordinary men of letters. Together they paint a vivid picture of a society which was still almost unknown to the Europe of the Enlightenment. Entertaining, profound, and marvellously readable, they are a valuable chronicle of a lost age and a fascinating people. For the first time, Ronald Black's edition brings together Johnson's and Boswell's accounts of each of the six stages of the two men's journey - Lowlands, Skye, Coll, Mull and back to the mainland. Illustrated with prints by Thomas Rowlandson, it includes a critical introduction, translations of the Latin texts and brief notes.

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