The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers

The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers
Author: Mary Morris
Publisher: Virago Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2000
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780316647977

Three hundred years of wanderlust are captured in this beautiful new illustrated edition of the VIRAGO BOOK OF WOMEN TRAVELLERS. Some of the women are observers of the world in which they wander and others are more active. Often they are storytellers, weaving tales about the people they encounter and whether it is curiosity about the world or escape from personal tragedy, these women approached their journeys with wit, intelligence, compassion and empathy for the lives of others. The constraints and perils, the perceptions and complex emotions women journey with are different and for many women, the inner landscape is as important as the outer. This does not mean that the woman traveller is not politically aware, historically astute or in touch with the customs and language of the place but it does mean that a woman cannot travel and not be aware of her body and the limitations her sex presents.

Irish Travellers

Irish Travellers
Author: Sharon Bohn Gmelch
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2014-10-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253014611

Anthropologists George and Sharon Gmelch have been studying the quasi-nomadic people known as Travellers since their fieldwork in the early 1970s, when they lived among Travellers and went on the road in their own horse-drawn wagon. In 2011 they returned to seek out families they had known decades before—shadowed by a film crew and taking with them hundreds of old photographs showing the Travellers' former way of life. Many of these images are included in this book, alongside more recent photos and compelling personal narratives that reveal how Traveller lives have changed now that they have left nomadism behind.

Travelers in the Third Reich

Travelers in the Third Reich
Author: Julia Boyd
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2018-08-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1681778432

Travelers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, fascists, artists, tourists, and even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler—one so palpable that the reader will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.These are the accidental eyewitnesses to history. Disturbing, absurd, moving, and ranging from the deeply trivial to the deeply tragic, their tales give a fresh insight into the complexities of the Third Reich, its paradoxes, and its ultimate destruction.

Traveller

Traveller
Author: Richard ADAMS
Publisher:
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1988
Genre: Generals
ISBN:

Examines the events of the Civil War through the eyes of General Robert E. Lee's closest companion and devoted horse, Traveller.

Tinkers and Travellers

Tinkers and Travellers
Author: Sharon Gmelch
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 145
Release: 1975-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0773592903

Roma, Gypsies, Travellers

Roma, Gypsies, Travellers
Author: Jean-Pierre Liégeois
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789287123497

This book provides an understanding of Gypsies and Travellers by introducing the reader to the richness of their culture and lifestyle.

Fellow Travellers

Fellow Travellers
Author: Jesse Bethea
Publisher: Columbus Creative Cooperative
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2021-01-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781633374607

Bindra Dhar has only just been welcomed into the global community of professional time travellers when she finds herself targeted by an enigmatic time criminal named Thurmond. Now she's on a mission through time to stop Thurmond's agenda, but in order to succeed-and survive-she'll have to find new allies, face new adversaries, and learn that time travel is more dangerous and morally fraught than she ever could have expected.

Moonlight Travellers

Moonlight Travellers
Author: Will Self
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0500022739

Bringing together two formidable talents for the first time, this literary and artistic collaboration on the theme of night travel features original artwork by Quentin Blake and text by Will Self. This breakthrough publication promises both to excite and haunt the reader’s imagination. Quentin Blake, the so-called Godfather of Illustration, combines his talents with novelist Will Self, “one of the most manically imaginative writers at work today” (Financial Times). The result is a book of irresistible appeal to literature and art lovers alike. Blake’s watercolors relate, with dark, fantastical humor, the experience of journeying across unknown landscapes in the dead of night. Accompanying this artistic narrative is an equally evocative text from the ever-brilliant mind of Will Self. With characteristic sharpness and wit, Self melds fact, fiction, and memory to transport the reader in the most radical way, departing on unexpected trajectories in response to Blake’s visual romp through time and space. Together, word and image connect with our deepest sensibilities in Moonlight Travellers as we journey through the landscapes and dreamscapes of night.