Mind Travelers 2 - Harold's Journey

Mind Travelers 2 - Harold's Journey
Author: J. Vincent Leroux
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2015-11-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1329697790

The second instalment of the Mind Travelers Trilogy. A tasteful Sci-Fi action adventure novel that explores life and death, reincarnation, out of body experiences and futuristic interior design, playfully positing hi-tech inventions and lifestyle of the future along-side the physics of time travel. This follow up novel focuses predominantly on the journey of Victor's next incarnation, Harold, and includes juicy plot lines dealing with greed and manipulation; patent-jacking; double-cross; interstellar travel; sushi and wine; fantastic futuristic technology; physics and best of all time travel.

Mark Twain's Travel Literature

Mark Twain's Travel Literature
Author: Harold H. Hellwig
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2008-03-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786436514

This critical study analyzes major concepts in the travel literature of Mark Twain and notes how his oeuvre (including his classic works of fiction) revolves around travel as a central issue. The book focuses especially on his representations of time, place, and identity in the travel works Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Life on The Mississippi, and Following the Equator. All receive an in-depth analysis, noting Twain's strong sense of nostalgia for the disappearing American frontier, his growing concern over the assimilation of Native American cultures, and his continual search for a sense of personal and national identity. One appendix provides a complete list of the travel literature contained in Twain's personal library.

Bringing Travel Home to England

Bringing Travel Home to England
Author: Susan Lamb
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780874139211

This study is the first to identify and examine the circulations and mutually constitutive relations among literature, tourism, and the wider culture in the 18th century. Gendering emerges as a key mechanism both for those who brought travel home and for those who were influenced by it in other ways.

Mark Twain's Travel Literature

Mark Twain's Travel Literature
Author: Harold H. Hellwig
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2015-01-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476600023

This critical study analyzes major concepts in the travel literature of Mark Twain and notes how his oeuvre (including his classic works of fiction) revolves around travel as a central issue. The book focuses especially on his representations of time, place, and identity in the travel works Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Life on The Mississippi, and Following the Equator. All receive an in-depth analysis, noting Twain's strong sense of nostalgia for the disappearing American frontier, his growing concern over the assimilation of Native American cultures, and his continual search for a sense of personal and national identity. One appendix provides a complete list of the travel literature contained in Twain's personal library.

The Travel Writings of Marguerite Blessington

The Travel Writings of Marguerite Blessington
Author: Aneta Lipska
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2017-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1783086793

This book derives from the conviction that Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) merits scholarly attention as a travel writer, and thus offers the first detailed analysis of Blessington’s four travel books: ‘A Tour in The Isle of Wight, in the Autumn of 1820’ (1822), ‘Journal of a Tour through the Netherlands to Paris in 1821’ (1822), ‘The Idler in Italy’ (1839) and ‘The Idler in France’ (1841). It argues that travelling and travel writing provided Blessington with endless opportunities to reshape her public personae, demonstrating that her predilection for self-fashioning was related to the various tendencies in tourism and literature as well as the changing aesthetic and social trends in the first half of the nineteenth century.

The Idea of Europe in British Travel Narratives, 1789-1914

The Idea of Europe in British Travel Narratives, 1789-1914
Author: Dr Katarina Gephardt
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-08-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1472429540

Showing how specific rhetorical strategies used in nineteenth-century British travel writing produced fictional representations of continental Europe in works by Ann Radcliffe, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, and Bram Stoker, Katarina Gephardt argues that nineteenth-century writers envisioned their country simultaneously as distinct from the Continent and as a part of Europe. She suggests that their imaginative geography of Europe anticipated Britain’s ambivalence about European integration.

Literature of Travel and Exploration

Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 3477
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135456623

Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Perfect

Perfect
Author: Rachel Joyce
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0552779709

Summer, 1972: In the claustrophobic heat, eleven-year-old Byron and his friend begin âe~Operation Perfectâe(tm), a hapless mission to rescue Byronâe(tm)s mother from impending crisis. Winter, present day: As frost creeps across the moor, Jim cleans tables in the local café, a solitary figure struggling with OCD. His job is a relief from the rituals that govern his nights. Little would seem to connect them except that two seconds can change everything. And if your world can be shattered in an instant, can time also put it right?