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This study explores the work of Western avant-garde writers who traveled to and wrote about Asia and North Africa …
Though exoticist in outlook many of these writers were also anti-colonialist and thus avoided some of the pitfalls of academic orientalism by assuming an aesthetics of diversity while employing strategies of provocation and reciprocity As a survey of works on travel including essays novels poems and plays the book challenges or modifies many postcolonial assumptions about Western writers on the Orient from the French Surrealists to the American Beats and even transnational authors of the new millennium Through a synthesis of avant-garde postcolonial and travel literature theories Avant-garde Orientalism works in the best tradition of comparative literary study to identify and analyze a distinct category of world literatureLike so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the…
1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in the lively Bastille neighborhood. But he soon discovered it's a different world en France. From learning the ironclad rules of social conduct to the mysteries of men's footwear, from shopkeepers who work so hard not to sell you anything to the etiquette of working the right way around the cheese plate, here is David's story of how he came to fall in love with--and even understand--this glorious, yet sometimes maddening, city. When did he realize he had morphed into un vrai parisien? It might have been when he found himself considering a purchase of men's dress socks with cartoon characters on them. Or perhaps the time he went to a bank with 135 euros in hand to make a 134-euro payment, was told the bank had no change that day, and thought it was completely normal. Or when he found himself dressing up to take out the garbage because he had come to accept that in Paris appearances and image mean everything. The more than fifty original recipes, for dishes both savory and sweet, such as Pork Loin with Brown Sugar-Bourbon Glaze, Braised Turkey in Beaujolais Nouveau with Prunes, Bacon and Bleu Cheese Cake, Chocolate-Coconut Marshmallows, Chocolate Spice Bread, Lemon-Glazed Madeleines, and Mocha-Creme Fraiche Cake, will have readers running to the kitchen once they stop laughing. The Sweet Life in Paris is a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections.“Skygirl On Cloud 9”
By Sharon Birlson Kirkham. 2013
"Skygirl On Cloud 9" is an entertaining narrative of the amazing globe-trekking adventures of fllight attendant Sharon Birlson Kirkham. Each…
amusing account recalls one of the exciting opportunities Sharon and her husband Cary have experienced through-out her career, and since. While she says they've done their best to see as much as possible, "the world is a really big place. There are hundreds more trips to be taken and stories to be written, 'but' there are only 365 days in a year...."Salt Water
By Josep Pla. 1979
Peter Bush, winner of the Ramon Llull Prize for Literary Translation, brings to English this most prolific and influential of…
Catalan writers.Dripping with a panache that can turn in a comic instant to the most conciliatory humility, Josep Pla's foray into the land and sea most familiar to him will plunge readers head-first into its mysterious (and often tasty!) depths. Here are adventures and shipwrecks, raspy storytellers and the fishy meals that sustain them. After describing the process of beating an octopus with branches to soften up its flesh, Pla writes, "These are dishes that must be seen as a last resort." Pla inflects the mundane with the hidden rhythms of power sculpting culture, so that a hot supper is never just food--it embodies economic precarity and environmental erosion along with its own peculiar flavor. A lifetime of reporting on current events gave Pla the necessary skills to describe the world in all its gritty, funny, invigorating detail.Una zona de oscuridad: El descubrimiento de la India
By V S Naipaul. 1964
Una zona de oscuridad es un cl sico fundamental de la literatura de viajes probablemente el libro…
m s elegante y apasionado que se haya escrito sobre la India Una zona de oscuridad es el primer libro del premio Nobel V S Naipaul sobre la tierra de sus antepasados fruto de su primer viaje al subcontinente indio en 1964 Desde el caos de Bombay a la belleza inmarcesible de Cachemira de una sagrada cueva helada en el Himalaya a un templo abandonado en Madr s Naipaul descubre una asombrosa variedad de tipos humanos modestos funcionarios p blicos y criados arrogantes un sinuoso sant n y un fascinado estadounidense en busca de la fe Naipaul tambi n expone su reacci n personal y distinta al paralizante sistema de castas a la aparentemente serena aceptaci n de la pobreza y la miseria y el conflicto entre el deseo de autodeterminaci n y la nostalgia por la dominaci n brit nica En Una zona de oscuridad forma junto a India tras un mill n de motines DeBolsillo 2011 e India una civilizaci n herida su aclamada trilog a sobre la India Mi India no era como la de los ingleses o los brit nicos Mi India estaba llena de dolor Unos sesenta a os antes mis antepasados hab an hecho el largu simo viaje desde India hasta el Caribe de al menos seis semanas y aunque apenas se hablaba de ello cuando yo era peque o a medida que fui haci ndome mayor empez a preocuparme cada vez m s De modo que a pesar de ser escritor yo no iba a la India de Forster o de Kipling Iba a una India que solamente exist a en mi cabeza La cr tica ha dicho La literatura de viajes de Naipaul inteligente y subjetiva conforma una narraci n directa del choque de civilizaciones The New York Times Esto es la India No conozco otro libro que consiga capturar con tanta precisi n esta locura Brillante John Wain The Observer Sus dotes de narrador son espectaculares Uno regresa con placer a las revelaciones que se van desvelando a un tiempo sobre la India y sobre l The Times London Escriba en el g nero que escriba Naipaul es un maestro The New York Review of BooksUnderground Worlds: A Guide to Spectacular Subterranean Places
By David Farley. 2018
A visual and anecdotal exploration of the curious worlds hidden beneath our feet, including ancient cities, salt mine cathedrals, underground…
amusement parks, and more.From bone-filled catacombs to sculpted salt churches to hand-carved cave complexes large enough to house 20,000 people, Underground Worlds is packed with more than 50 unusual destinations that take some digging to find. Award-winning travel writer David Farley revels in the unexpected, whether it is a cave city in China which houses one of the world's largest collections of Buddhist art or an old salt mine converted into a theme park in Romania.Stunning photos help readers see places they could not even imagine, such as a three-story underground train station in Taiwan that is home to the a 4,500-panel "Dome of Light" that is the largest glasswork on Earth, as well as secret spaces, such as an ornate temple built beneath a suburban home in Italy. Throughout the fascinating text are themed entries of underground systems such as the 2,500-year-old water tunnels of Kish Qanat in Iran or engineering marvels like the New York City steam tunnels.&“A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world&’s most combustible region.&”—The New York Times Book ReviewNATIONAL BESTSELLERPulitzer Prize-winning…
journalist Tony Horwitz's 1991 classic account of his travels across the Middle East and through the Arabian Peninsula, now in eBook for the first timeWith razor-sharp wit and insight, intrepid journalist Tony Horwitz gets beyond solemn newspaper headlines and romantic myths of the 1990s, to offer startling, honest close-ups of the Middle East. His quest for hot stories takes him from the tribal wilds of Yemen to the shell-pocked shores of Lebanon; from the sands of the Sudan to the souks of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.Careering through fourteen countries, including the Sudan, Iraq, Israel, and Afghanistan, Horwitz travels light, packing a keen eye, a wicked sense of humor, and chutzpah in overwhelming measure. This wild and comic tale of misadventure reports on a fascinating world in which the ancient and the modern collide.The Long Journey: Exploring Travel and Travel Writing
By Maria Pia Di Bella and Brian Yothers. 2021
Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel…
as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This interdisciplinary volume brings together anthropologists, literary scholars, social historians, and other scholars to illuminate travel writing in all its forms. With studies ranging from colonial adventurism to the legacies of the Holocaust, The Long Journey offers a unique dual focus on experience and genre as it applies to three key realms: memory and trauma, confrontations with the Other, and the cultivation of cultural perspective.Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i (Vintage Departures)
By Garrett Hongo. 1995
Part memoir, part Japanese American family chronicle, part luminous work of natural history, Volcano tells what happened when Hongo returned…
to his birthplace in Hawai'i, as a young man, to reclaim its dreamlike landscape and his own elusive past. A magnificant evocation of heritage and place.A Remarkable Curiosity: Dispatches from a New York City Journalist's 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West
By Jerald T. Milanich. 2008
Collected in this volume for the first time are Cummings's portraits of a land and its assortment of characters unlike…
anything back East. Characters like Pedro Armijo, the New Mexican sheep tycoon who took Denver by storm, and more prominently the Mormon prophet Brigham Young and one of his wives, Ann Eliza Young, who was filing for divorce at the time of Cummings's arrival. Although today he is virtually unknown, during his lifetime Cummings was one of the most famous newspapermen in the United States, in part because of stories like these. Complete with a biographical sketch and historical introduction, A Remarkable Curiosity is an enjoyable read for anybody interested in the American West in the latter half of the nineteenth century.Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku
By Natalie Goldberg. 2020
One of the world&’s foremost writing teachers invites readers on a joyful journey into the reading and origins of haiku…
A haiku is three simple lines. But it is also, as Allen Ginsberg put it, three lines that &“make the mind leap.&” A good one, he said, lets the mind experience &“a small sensation of space which is nothing less than God.&” As many spiritual practices seek to do, the haiku&’s spare yet acute noticing of the immediate and often ordinary grounds the reader in the pure awareness of now. Natalie Goldberg is a delightfully companionable tour guide into this world. She highlights the history of the form, dating back to the seventeenth century; shows why masters such as Basho and Issa are so revered; discovers Chiyo-ni, an important woman haiku master; and provides insight into writing and reading haiku. A fellow seeker who travels to Japan to explore the birthplace of haiku, Goldberg revels in everything she encounters, including food and family, painting and fashion, frogs and ponds. She also experiences and allows readers to share in the spontaneous and profound moments of enlightenment and awakening that haiku promises.The travels of a paleontologist and an artist as they drive across the American West in search of fossils. Throughout…
their journey, they encounter "paleonerds" like themselves, people dedicated to finding everything from suburban T. rexes to ancient fossilized forests.Una vuelta al tercer mundo: La ruta salvaje de la globalización
By Juan Pablo Meneses. 2015
Una vuelta al tercer mundo es un deslumbrante, doloroso, profundo y divertido recorrido por ese lado salvaje que nunca vende…
la gran industria del turismo. ¿Por qué hay países que nunca están incluidos en las vueltas al mundo?¿Qué hay en las zonas más sombrías de la aldea global?¿Cómo es la trastienda del consumo multinacional? Juan Pablo Meneses, que antes atravesó América Latina buscando comprar un niño futbolista para vender a Europa, ahora arma una ruta alrededor del planeta con las sobras que va dejando el progreso primermundista. En un apasionante viaje por esa grieta que divide al planeta, recorre la ciudad de Dakar después de que le quitaron el rally; consume chatarra cibernética en Kuala Lumpur; sigue el rastro de un jerarca nazi prófugo en una zona perdida de Brasil; cuenta muertos en la frontera entre Pakistán y la India; acompaña en su luchaa las cholitas voladoras de Bolivia; come en los restaurantes más caros de Etiopía, y se embarca en un buque-escuela de la armada de Ucrania que no tiene presupuesto para cruzar el temido cabo de Hornos. En Ho Chi Minh City dispara un fusil AK-47 en el campo de batalla de la guerra de Vietnam; compra souvenirs del subcomandante Marcos en Chiapas; visita la mina San José, en el desierto de Atacama, con uno de los treinta y tres mineros chilenos que quedaron atrapados bajo tierra, y está en el Vaticano cuando por primera vez un hombre del tercer mundo, el argentino Jorge Mario Bergoglio, se transforma en Papa. Juan Pablo Meneses utiliza su reconocido talento de cronista para relatarnos su viaje personal en busca de algo que no encuentra: el pensamiento global tercermundista.We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year
By Charles Wheelan. 2021
Charlie Wheelan and his family do what others dream of: They take a year off to travel the world. This…
is their story. What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre–COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family decided to find out; leaving behind work, school, and even the family dogs to travel the world on a modest budget. Equal parts "how-to" and "how-not-to"—and with an eye toward a world emerging from a pandemic—We Came, We Saw, We Left is the insightful and often hilarious account of one family’s gap-year experiment. Wheelan paints a picture of adventure and connectivity, juggling themes of local politics, global economics, and family dynamics while exploring answers to questions like: How do you sneak out of a Peruvian town that has been barricaded by the local army? And where can you get treatment for a flesh-eating bacteria your daughter picked up two continents ago? From Colombia to Cambodia, We Came, We Saw, We Left chronicles nine months across six continents with three teenagers. What could go wrong?The Curse Of Oak Island
By Randall Sullivan. 2018
In 1795, a teenager discovered a mysterious circular depression in the ground on Oak Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada, and…
ignited rumors of buried treasure. Early excavators uncovered a clay-lined shaft containing layers of soil interspersed with wooden platforms, but when they reached a depth of ninety feet, water poured into the shaft and made further digging impossible. Since then the mystery of Oak Island's "Money Pit" has enthralled generations of treasure hunters, including a Boston insurance salesman whose obsession ruined him; young Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and film star Errol Flynn. Perplexing discoveries have ignited explorers' imaginations: a flat stone inscribed in code; a flood tunnel draining from a man-made beach; a torn scrap of parchment; stone markers forming a huge cross. Swaths of the island were bulldozed looking for answers; excavation attempts have claimed two lives. Theories abound as to what's hidden on Oak Island--pirates' treasure, Marie Antoinette's lost jewels, the Holy Grail, proof that Sir Francis Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare's plays--yet to this day, the Money Pit remains an enigma. The Curse of Oak Island is a fascinating account of the strange, rich history of the island and the intrepid treasure hunters who have driven themselves to financial ruin, psychotic breakdowns, and even death in pursuit of answers. And as Michigan brothers Marty and Rick Lagina become the latest to attempt to solve the mystery, as documented on the History Channel's television show The Curse of Oak Island, Sullivan takes readers along to follow their quest firsthand.All Abroad: A Memoir of Travel and Obsession
By Geoffrey Weill. 2021
Yearning for an escape from a claustrophobic childhood, Geoffrey Weill became infatuated with travel. At twenty-three, the budding British connoisseur…
made his way across the Atlantic on an ocean liner. The year was 1973, and he was bound for New York to pursue a promising role as consultant-in-training at the headquarters of the world’s oldest travel agency, Thomas Cook. The idyllic trip was reminiscent of those from the early twentieth century but made distinctly modern by a nightly reminder—at the onboard dance club, one was sure to run into a sequin-clad David Bowie. All Abroad is the memoir of a man hungry for the logistics of travel: getting there, staying there, and feeling at home on any continent. Woven into his entertaining anecdotes is an informative account of a lost era in travel. As a witness to compelling and monumental changes in the industry, Weill offers a unique view into how our vacations have been shaped deeply by human trends, tragedies, and technologies. While some long for the grandeur of tourism from decades ago, Weill insists that travel—the conveyances and hotels that await journey’s end—remains as glamorous as ever.She Explores: Stories of Life-Changing Adventures on the Road and in the Wild
By Gale Straub. 2019
For every woman who has ever been called outdoorsy comes a collection of stories that inspires unforgettable adventure.Beautiful, empowering, and…
exhilarating, She Explores is a spirited celebration of female bravery and courage, and an inspirational companion for any woman who wants to travel the world on her own terms.Combining breathtaking travel photography with compelling personal narratives, She Explores shares the stories of 40 diverse women on unforgettable journeys in nature: women who live out of vans, trucks, and vintage trailers, hiking the wild, cooking meals over campfires, and sleeping under the stars. Women biking through the countryside, embarking on an unknown road trip, or backpacking through the outdoors with their young children in tow.Complementing the narratives are practical tips and advice for women planning their own trips, including:• Preparing for a solo hike • Must-haves for a road-trip kitchen• Planning ahead for unknown territory• Telling your own story A visually stunning and emotionally satisfying collection for any woman craving new landscapes and adventure.Get Thee to a Bakery: Essays
By Rick Bailey. 2021
Get Thee to a Bakery is a collection of short, tart essays that explore both humorous and harrowing aspects of…
growing older and making sense of social, technological, and environmental change. Topics range from earworms and industrial eggs to peaches and personal data, from bug die-offs to algae blooms and global warming, and from beards and yoga to the irrepressible American smile. Many of these essays make discursive moves into science and literature, framing issues and conflicts that resonate in contemporary American life. With a conversational style, distinctive voice, and great comic timing, Bailey entertains and surprises.Bel Vino
By Isabella Dusi. 2004
Isobel and Lou moved to Montalcino and became Isabella and Luigi ten years ago and they have now been embraced…
by the locals and immersed in their antiquated customs and age-old feuds. In BEL VINO Isabella takes the reader on a winding journey to discover the true aristocratic orgins of the world-renowned wine Brunello di Montalcino on whose vintage the fortunes of many of the Montalcinesi depend. Taking us through the seasons of the wine harvest, Dusi weaves a path that brings in the local white-hooded monks who have lived in the Abbey of Sant' Antimo since at least 814; the last remaining local shoemaker; the harvesting of mushrooms, olives and truffles; an archery contest with a local village at which passions run high; and the fight to save a 1000-year-old church with no foundations. As an insider, Dusi is able to portray Tuscan life with all its idyllic charms whilst also giving an intriguing insight into the daily workings of the ancient village of Montalcino.Viajes por la tierra del Kublai Khan (Serie Great Ideas #Volumen 4)
By Marco Polo. 2009
Ideas que han cambiado el mundo. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado…
la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y también las han destruido. Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilización y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos. Tras dejar una profunda influencia en la visión que la Europa medieval se formó del mundo, esta narración de las asombrosas experiencias de un comerciante veneciano del siglo XIII en la corte del gran líder mongol Kublai Khan sigue siendo uno de los más fascinantes relatos de aventuras jamás escritos. Comentarios sobre la colección Great Ideas:«De veras que la edición es primorosa y pocas veces contenido y continente pueden encontrarse mejor ensamblados y unidos. ¡Qué portadas! Para enmarcar. [...] Ante las Great Ideas, solo cabe quitarse el sombrero. ¡Chapeau!»ABC «Taurus propone un doble envite con este lanzamiento. Por un lado aumenta su compromiso con el ensayo; por otro, recupera el gusto por la estética. A los volúmenes se les ha proporcionado una portada delicada y cuidada (copian el original británico) que invita a la lectura.»La Razón «Un fenómeno editorial.»The Guardian «Aparte de los contenidos, en general muy bien elegidos, son tan bonitos que si los ven seguro que cae alguno.»El País «Ideas revolucionarias, crónicas de exploraciones, pensamientos radicales... vuelven a la vida en estas cuidadísimas ediciones, muy atractivas para nuevos lectores.»Mujer Hoy «Grandes ideas bien envueltas. De Cicerón a Darwin, esta colección entra por los ojos.»Rolling Stone «Original y bella iniciativa la emprendida por Taurus con su colección Great Ideas.»Cambio 16 «Hay libros inmortales, libros únicos que contienen pensamientos y reflexiones capaces de cambiar el mundo, tesoros en miniatura reagrupados en la colección Great ideas.»Diario de León