The Travels

July 18, 2018 Marco Polo

Author: Marco Polo
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014190657X
Category: Travel
Page: 384
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Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different societies he encountered: their religions, customs, ceremonies and way of life; on the spices and silks of the East; on precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts. He tells the story of the holy shoemaker, the wicked caliph and the three kings, among a great many others, evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy.

Travels of William Bartram

July 18, 2018 William Bartram

Author: William Bartram
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486138666
Category: Nature
Page: 448
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First inexpensive, illustrated edition of early classic on American geography, plants, Indians, wildlife, early settlers. Influenced Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Chateaubriand. "A book of extraordinary beauty." — The New York Times. 13 illustrations.

The Genres of Gulliver's Travels

July 18, 2018 Frederik N. Smith

Author: Frederik N. Smith
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874133592
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 265
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A reevaluation of Swift's masterpiece and a test of the usefulness of examining a text through the perspective of genre. Gulliver is explored from the standpoint of picaresque, history, novel, children's literature, illustrated book, scientific prose, science fiction, philosophical treatise, and satire.

Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels

July 18, 2018 Evliya Çelebi
Land and People of the Ottoman Empire in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Evliya Çelebi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004114852
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 325
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Partial edition of the ten-volume Book of Travels (Sey h at-n me

Travels in Persia, 1673-1677

July 18, 2018 Sir John Chardin

Author: Sir John Chardin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486120716
Category: Travel
Page: 336
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Great travel classic offers a vivid portrait of 17th-century life at the court of the Shah: social customs, geography, soil and climate, trade, flora and fauna, and much more.

Travels in Portugal

July 18, 2018 Heinrich Friedrich Link
And Through France and Spain. With a Dissertation on the Literature of Portugal, and the Spanish and Portugueze Languages
Author: Heinrich Friedrich Link
Publisher: N.A
ISBN: N.A
Category: Portugal
Page: 504
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Travels

July 18, 2018 Michael Crichton

Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307816494
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 400
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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 by a powerful curiosity—and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up—Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling—swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels—an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world. It is an adventure of risk and rejuvenation, terror and wonder, as exciting as Michael Crichton's many masterful and widely heralded works of fiction.

Travels in Hyperreality

July 18, 2018 Umberto Eco

Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547545967
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 324
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A “scintillating collection” of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (Los Angeles Times). Collected here are some of Umberto Eco’s finest popular essays, recording the incisive and surprisingly entertaining observations of his restless intellectual mind. As the author puts it in the preface to the second edition: “In these pages, I try to interpret and to help others interpret some ‘signs.’ These signs are not only words, or images; they can also be forms of social behavior, political acts, artificial landscapes.” From Disneyland to holography and wax museums, Eco explores America’s obsession with artificial reality, suggesting that the craft of forgery has in certain cases exceeded reality itself. He examines Western culture’s enduring fascination with the middle ages, proposing that our most pressing modern concerns began in that time. He delves into an array of topics, from sports to media to what he calls the crisis of reason. Throughout these travels—both physical and mental—Eco displays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum. Translated by William Weaver