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Author : Bruce Chatwin
Release : 1993
Genre : Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
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Book Rating : 735/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Patagonia Revisited by : Bruce Chatwin
Download or read book Patagonia Revisited written by Bruce Chatwin. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Moss
Release : 2016-08-09
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 348/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Patagonia by : Chris Moss
Download or read book Patagonia written by Chris Moss. This book was released on 2016-08-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encompass an evocative idea of place. A vast triangle at the southern tip of the New World, this region of barren steppes, soaring peaks and fierce winds was populated by small tribes of hunter-gatherers and roaming nomads when Ferdinand Magellan made landfall in 1520. A fateful moment for the natives, this was the start of an era of adventure and exploration. Soon Sir Francis Drake and John Byron, and sailors from Europe and America, would be exploring Patagonia's bays and inlets, mapping fjords and channels, whaling, sifting the streams for gold in the endless search for Eldorado. As the land was opened up in the nineteenth century, a crazed Frenchman declared himself King. A group of Welsh families sailed from Liverpool to Northern Patagonia to found a New Jerusalem in the desert. Further down the same river, Butch and Sundance took time out from bank robbing to run a small ranch near the Patagonian Andes. All these, and later travel writers, have left sketches and records, memoirs and diaries evoking Patagonia's grip on the imagination. From the empty plains to the crashing seas, from the giant dinosaur fossils to glacial sculptures, the landscape has inspired generations of travellers and artists.
Author : Fernanda Peñaloza
Release : 2010
Genre : Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
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Book Rating : 173/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Patagonia by : Fernanda Peñaloza
Download or read book Patagonia written by Fernanda Peñaloza. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume is a selection of the papers presented during the international conference Patagonia: Myths and Realities organised through the Centre of Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester and held in September 2005 at the Manchester Museum"--Introd.
Author : Steven H. Clark
Release : 1999
Genre : British
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Book Rating : 287/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Travel Writing and Empire by : Steven H. Clark
Download or read book Travel Writing and Empire written by Steven H. Clark. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel writing has become central to postcolonial studies. This book provides an introduction to the genre, particularly to its dynamics of power and representation, and the degree to which it has promoted ideologies of empire.The book combines detailed evaluations of major contemporary models of analysis - new historicism, travelling theory, and post-colonial studies - with a series of specific studies detailing the complicity of the genre with a history of violent incursion from Columbus' reports from the New World through to the nomadism of postmodern travelogue.Among its particular areas of concern are* 'Othering' discourses - of cannibalism and infanticide* the production of colonial knowledge - geographic,medicinal, zoological* the role of sexual anxiety in the constructionof the gendered, travelling body* the interplay between imperial and domestic spheres* reappropration of alien discourse by indigenous cultures.Post-colonial studies has concentrated on travellers as conduits of erasure and appropriation. This book resists the temptation to think in terms of a simple monolithic Eurocentrism and offers a more complex reading of texts produced before, during and after periods of imperial ascendency. In doing so, it provides a more nuanced account of the hegemonic functions of travel-writing. As such it is necessary reading for students and academics of cultural studies, literary theory, anthropology and history.
Author : Allen Ahearn
Release : 2013-02
Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
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Book Rating : 141/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Collected Books by : Allen Ahearn
Download or read book Collected Books written by Allen Ahearn. This book was released on 2013-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to and advice on book collecting with a glossary of terms and tips on how to identify first editions and estimated values for over 20,000 collectible books published in English (including translations) over the last three centuries-about half are literary titles in the broadest sense (novels, poetry, plays, mysteries, science fiction, and children's books); and the other half are non-fiction (Americana, travel and exploration, finance, cookbooks, color plate, medicine, science, photography, Mormonism, sports, et al).
