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The Art of Travel

The Art of Travel

Alain de Botton

The Art of Travel is Alain de Botton's travel guide with a difference: an exploration of why we travel and what we learn when we do As seen on Channel 4 Few activities seem to promise is as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for ...
The Art of Travel

The Art of Travel

Alain de Botton

The Art of Travel is Alain de Botton's travel guide with a difference: an exploration of why we travel and what we learn when we do As seen on Channel 4 Few activities seem to promise is as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for ...
The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World

The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World

Lonely Planet,

If, like me, you consider travel to be an important part of your life, then this book will be bad news - it shows us that no matter how far we travel, there's always further to go.
The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing

The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing

Tim Youngs

Surveying various works of travel literature, this text argues that travel writing redefines the myriad genres it often comprises.
Business Travel: Conferences, Incentive Travel, Exhibitions, ...

Business Travel: Conferences, Incentive Travel, Exhibitions, ...

Rob Davidson

This text covers all sectors of business-related travel in an analytical manner and provides a sound practical and theoretical context for the study of this subject.
Essays of Travel

Essays of Travel

Robert Louis Stevenson

The collection Essays of Travel brings together some of Stevenson's finest essays, short memoirs, and other works that detail his thoughts on travel and foreign lands.
French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years: ...

French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years: ...

Martyn Cornick

9 Yaël Schlick, Feminism and the Politics of Travel after the Enlightenment ( Lewisberg: Bucknell University Press, 2012), p. 3; p. 180; Sidonie Smith, Moving Lives. Twentieth Century Women's Travel (Minneapolis and London: University of  ...
Best Travel Writing 2005: True Stories from Around the World

Best Travel Writing 2005: True Stories from Around the World

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Hanging there before me — strange, grinning, half- crucified — Barbecue Jesus seemed to understand. Rolf Potts is the author of 'Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, and his travel stories have appeared  ...
Higher Ground: How to Travel Responsibly Without Roughing It

Higher Ground: How to Travel Responsibly Without Roughing It

Rhiannon Batten

And Tourism Concern's Ethical Travel Guide, by Polly Pattullo and Orely Minelli, includes extensive listings for locally run tour companies worldwide. Nature vs nurture As travel has become cheaper and easier,. Package holidays Higher ...
Deconstructing Travel: Cultural Perspectives on Tourism

Deconstructing Travel: Cultural Perspectives on Tourism

Arthur Asa Berger

Arthur Asa Berger's Deconstructing Travel is an engaging look into why people travel, examining travel and tourism as a cultural phenomenon through social, cultural, psychological, and economic forces.
New Directions in Travel Writing Studies

New Directions in Travel Writing Studies

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Map Reading in Travel Writing: the 'Explorers' Maps' of Mexico, This Month Claire Lindsay In a 1959 audit of the Englishlanguage travel magazine, Mexico, This Month, a prospective buyer singled out for particular criticism the disproportionate  ...
Grand Tours and Cook's Tours: A History of Leisure Travel, ...

Grand Tours and Cook's Tours: A History of Leisure Travel, ...

Lynne Withey

Chronicles the evolution of leisure travel from the Grand Tour of Europe, an essential part of the education of sons from wealthy families, to the beginnings of mass tourism as travel became more accessible for the middle classes
An Introduction to Travel and Tourism

An Introduction to Travel and Tourism

John Ward

An Introduction to Travel and Tourism is a new activity-based text to cover the GCSE in Travel and Tourism. The text takes a workbook approach to the syllabus and includes many activities to help reinforce learning and understanding.
Gutsy Mamas: Travel Tips and Wisdom for Mothers on the Road

Gutsy Mamas: Travel Tips and Wisdom for Mothers on the Road

Marybeth Bond

... 1991 Traveling with Children and Enjoying It: A Complete Guide to Family Travel by Car, Plane, and Train Arlene Kay Butler Connecticutt: Globe Pequot Press, 1991 Travels with Children - a travel survival kit Maureen Wheeler Hawthorne, ...
Extreme Pursuits: Travel/writing in an Age of Globalization

Extreme Pursuits: Travel/writing in an Age of Globalization

Graham Huggan

A provocative look at travel--both voluntary and otherwise--in an uncertain world
New York

New York

Eleanor Berman

With a new design and unbeatable price, DK raises the bar on travel guides with its new Top 10 Travel Guide series.
A Woman's World Again: True Stories of World Travel

A Woman's World Again: True Stories of World Travel

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True Stories of World Travel Marybeth Bond. SYBIL BAKER The Kind of Traveler I Am She had to travel alone to find out. As An American Woman Living And Teaching English in Seoul, South Korea, for the past seven years, I was no stranger ...
Indonesia: A Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit

Indonesia: A Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit

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This new edition offers the most reliable travel information for independent, adventurous travelers.
Safar Nameh. Persian Pictures. A Book of Travel. [By ...

Safar Nameh. Persian Pictures. A Book of Travel. [By ...

Anonymous

This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female.
Exploring Space Travel

Exploring Space Travel

Laura Hamilton Waxman

Looks at human travel beyond the Earth, and discusses spacecraft, equipment, daily life during a flight, training, and possible future developments.
A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism Terminology

A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism Terminology

Allan Beaver

This new edition contains over 500 new entries and the unique cross referencing system has been extended; for example accessing any entry about business travel leads to over 70 others.
Travel with Children

Travel with Children

Cathy Lanigan

Even the maps in this fun guide are kid-focused! Designed to be a planning tool as well as on-the-road companion, this book paves the way for tantrum-free travel.
Worldwide Destinations: The geography of travel and tourism

Worldwide Destinations: The geography of travel and tourism

Brian Boniface

This thorough guide is a must-have for any student undertaking a course in travel and tourism.
The Best American Travel Writing 2017

The Best American Travel Writing 2017

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This far-ranging collection of top notch travel writing is, quite simply, the genre's gold standard.
Women's Travel Writings in Iberia

Women's Travel Writings in Iberia

José Ruiz Mas

Lisbon and the Pyrenees form the basis of this lively collection of firsthand accounts of travel within Portugal and Spain in the early nineteenth century.
Traveling Light: Photography, Travel and Visual Culture

Traveling Light: Photography, Travel and Visual Culture

Peter Osborne

This is a thoroughly illustrated study of the close and continuous relationship between two of modern culture’s central phenomena: the photographic image and travel.
Beastly Journeys: Travel and Transformation at the Fin de Siècle

Beastly Journeys: Travel and Transformation at the Fin de Siècle

Tim Youngs

Metaphors of travel social, spatial, temporal, mythical and psychological keep these stories on the move, confusing literary genres along with the indeterminacy of physical shape that they relate.
New Zealand: a travel survival kit

New Zealand: a travel survival kit

Tony Wheeler

A guide to travel in New Zealand includes information on New Zealand's national parks, glaciers, hiking trails, and resort towns
Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture: Canadian ...

Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture: Canadian ...

Faye Hammill

The leading monthlies - among them Mayfair, Chatelaine, and La Revue Moderne - presented travel as both a mode of self-improvement and a way of negotiating national identity.This book announces a new cross-cultural approach to periodical ...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Travel Writing

The Ashgate Research Companion to Travel Writing

Tim Youngs

The volume adopts a thematic approach, with each contributor considering a specific aspect of travel writing âe" a recurrent motif, an organizing principle, or a literary form.

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