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• Publisher : NYU Press
• File Size : 27,5 Mb
• Release Date : 06 September 2022

"The Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 27,8 Mb
• Release Date : 24 April 2009

This collection assesses genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage in a set of disparate travel narratives spanning the medieval to early modern eras. It assesses the possibilities for cultural translation as travelers

• Publisher : Vintage
• File Size : 35,9 Mb
• Release Date : 14 May 2012

From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a deeply personal memoir full of fascinating adventures as he travels everywhere from the Mayan pyramids to Kilimanjaro. Fueled

• Publisher : Eland Publishing
• File Size : 54,9 Mb
• Release Date : 17 May 2024

Evliya Celebi was the Orhan Pamuk of the 17th century, the Pepys of the Ottoman world - a diligent, adventurous and honest recorder with a puckish wit and humour. He

• Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
• File Size : 37,6 Mb
• Release Date : 23 January 2007

A man pieces together clues to his past—and the identity of his captors—in this fantastic, labyrinthine novel An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 52,9 Mb
• Release Date : 13 September 2012

'Another island in the Great Ocean has many sinful and malevolent women, who have precious gems in their eyes.' In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville

• Publisher : Penguin UK
• File Size : 29,5 Mb
• Release Date : 25 January 2007

Jupiter's Travels -Ted Simon's astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the world The book that inspired Ewan McGregor's Long Way Round In the late 1970s Ted Simon set off on a

• Publisher : Great Little Books Llc
• File Size : 31,6 Mb
• Release Date : 15 January 2009

What constitutes travel? Two weeks in a foreign city or a year of Sunday drives? Returning to the places you love or stopping by the side of the road to

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 28 May 2019

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2012.

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 46,5 Mb
• Release Date : 31 May 2021

Surviving a lightning strike, sleeping with deadly scorpions and snakes, crossing a volcano, or having an audience with Lady Desta and her thirty slaves, the English agent Ármin Vámbé