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Media, place and tourism: a world of imagination
Introduction: Worlds of imagination / Stijn Reijnders, Emiel Martens, Apoorva Nanjangud, Deborah Castro, Rosa Schiavone and Débora Póvoa -- The runaway production of A daughter of the gods : film, tourism and empire in early twentieth-century Jamaica / Emiel
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A Woman Alone in The Heart of Japan
Experience the captivating culture of Japan through the eyes of pioneering American author Gertrude Adams Fisher, who lived alone in rural Japanese villages for over a year in the 1920s. Her vivid descriptions of local customs, food, and landscapes make this an important resource for anyone interested in Japanese history and culture.
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- x, 293 p., [33] leaves of plates : 20 cm,Includes index
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Old time Paris: a plain guide to its chief survivals
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Travel, adventure, and sport from 'Blackwood's magazine'
T7IABLY in March 1879, news reached Buda-Pesth -L^ of impending floods in the Theiss valley of a serious and exceptional character. During the past winter more snow had fallen all over the ' country than is generally the case even in Hungary, while at the same time the cold had been less than usual. At Buda-Pesth, though the Danube was covered with drift-ice, it had never been completely frozen…
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The clockwork man
Several thousand years from now, advanced humanoids known as the Makers will implant clockwork devices into our heads. At the cost of a certain amount of agency, these devices will permit us to move unhindered through time and space, and to live complacent, well-regulated lives. However, when one of these devices goes awry, a "clockwork man" appears accidentally in the 1920s, at a cricket match…
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Philosophy for passengers
A philosophical guide to passengerhood, with reflections on time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses. While there are entire bookstore sections--and even entire bookstores--devoted to travel, there have been few books on the universal experience of being a passenger. With this book, philosopher Michael Marder fills the gap, offering a philosophical guide t…
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- 1 online resource (216 pages).
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Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineeri…
A history of urban travel demand modeling (UTDM) and its enormous influence on American life from the 1920s to the present. For better and worse, the automobile has been an integral part of the American way of life for decades. Its ascendance would have been far less spectacular, however, had engineers and planners not devised urban travel demand modeling (UTDM). This book tells the story of…
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Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722)
This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical linkages to contemporary Caribbean theories of creolization and archipelagic thinking. Using Édouard Glissant’s notion of points o…
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Scattered Finds : Archaeology, Egyptology and Museums
Scattered Finds explores the politics, personalities and social histories that linked fieldwork in Egypt with the varied organizations around the world that received finds. Case studies range from Victorian municipal museums and women’s suffrage campaigns in the UK, to the development of some of the USA’s largest institutions, and from university museums in Japan to new institutions in post…
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Touring Pacific Cultures
"Tourism is vital to the economies of most Pacific nations and as such is an important site for the meaningful production of shared and disputed cultural values and practices. This is especially the case when tourism intersects with other important arenas for cultural production, both directly and indirectly. Touring Pacific Cultures captures the central importance of tourism to the visual, mat…
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