Bradshaw’s Handbook

Bradshaw’s Handbook
Author: George Bradshaw
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 1086
Release: 2012-06-20
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1908402458

Collector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s – Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile. Produced as the British railway network was reaching its zenith, and as tourism by rail became a serious pastime for the better off, it was the first national tourist guide specifically organized around railway journeys, and to this day offers a glimpse through the carriage window at a Britain long past. This is a facsimile of the actual book – often referred to as 'Bradshaw's Guide' – that inspired the 'Great British Railway Journeys' television series, possibly the only surviving example of the 1863 edition. It is an exact copy with a removable belly-band.

Dictionary of Travel, Tourism and Hospitality

Dictionary of Travel, Tourism and Hospitality
Author: S. Medlik
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2012-06-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113641018X

This new edition combines within two covers: * A dictionary of 2500 terms * Descriptions of 300 organizations * A biographical dictionary of 100 personalities * Explanations of 1200 acronyms and abbreviations * Key data for well over 200 countries * A concise bibliography listing more than 100 useful sources of further information The author's long and wide experience of these fields makes this an indispensable companion for students and teachers, and those employed in relevant businesses and organizations, as well as for the travellers, tourists and guests who are the raison d'être of it all.

Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic

Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic
Author: Osho
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2001-06-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0312274068

Understand the life and teachings of Osho, one of the twentieth century’s most unusual gurus and philosophers, in Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic. In 1990, Osho prepared for his departure from the body that had served him for fifty-nine years—in the words of his attending physician—“as calmly as though he were packing for a weekend in the country.” Who was this man, known as the Sex Guru, the “self-appointed bhagwan” (Rajneesh), the Rolls-Royce Guru, the Rich Man’s Guru, and simply the Master? Drawn from nearly five thousand hours of Osho’s recorded talks, this is the story of his youth and education, his life as a professor of philosophy and years of travel teaching the importance of meditation, and the true legacy he sought to leave behind: a religion-less religion centered on individual awareness and responsibility and the teaching of “Zorba the Buddha,” a celebration of the whole human being. Osho challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to enjoy life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the “1000 Makers of the 20th Century” and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people—along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha—who have changed the destiny of India. Since his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.

Beckett and Aesthetics

Beckett and Aesthetics
Author: Daniel Albright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2003-12-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521829083

Beckett and Aesthetics, first published in 2003, examines Samuel Beckett's struggle with the recalcitrance of artistic media, their refusal to yield to his artistic purposes. As a young man Beckett hoped that writing could provide psychic authenticity and true representation of the physical world; instead he found himself immersed in artificialities and self-enclosed word games. Daniel Albright argues that Beckett escaped from this bind through allegories of artistic frustration and through an art of non-representation, estrangement and general failure. He arrived, Albright shows, at some grasp of fact through the most indirect route available. Albright explores Beckett's experimentation with the notion that an artistic medium might itself be made to speak. This powerful and highly original book explores Beckett's own engagement with radio, film, and television, prose and drama as part of an attempt to escape the confines of the aesthetic. Albright's Beckett becomes a sophisticated theorist of the very notion of the aesthetic.

Spencer Family of Lincoln County, Tennessee

Spencer Family of Lincoln County, Tennessee
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1991
Genre: Tennessee
ISBN:

The earliest known ancestor, Abraham Spencer, was born in England. He immigrated before 1638 to James City Co., Virginia, where he died 1655/1657. He had one son, Thomas, born before 1638 in James City Co., Va. Thomas and his wife, Ann Woodward, were living in King William Co., Va. in 1708. Descendants live in Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina, Texas, Alabama, Illinois and elsewhere.

Understanding Tourism

Understanding Tourism
Author: Slavoj Medlik
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0750643528

Examining tourism through 1000 questions and answers, this book is intended for students and teachers of tourism worldwide, those who earn their living through tourism, or who simply like being tourists.

Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports

Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports
Author: Tony Collins
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415352246

Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times to the present day in all of the United Kingdom and Ireland. This book brings together several distinct types of traditional rural sports with particular emphasis on the social history and 'traditional' aspects. It contains several hundred entries focusing on individual sports and others providing analysis of key concepts, themes and terminologies. The Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports is an invaluable reference that provides students, scholars and sports enthusiasts with a focussed and authoritative source of information on the history and culture of rural sport in Britain.