Reflections of a Reckless Traveller

Reflections of a Reckless Traveller
Author: Trevor Watson
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2023-02-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1837910324

Trevor Watson has been haunted and intoxicated by the idea of travel all his life. Reflections of a Reckless Traveller is a collection of essays written for his popular blog between 2017 and 2020, just before COVID changed the world and the way we could experience it. Delighting in every new idea, sight and culture he is introduced to, Trevor is the perfect guide through the kind of places we all put on our bucket lists but never get round to actually visiting. For Trevor, the world is a huge museum, the ideal size that an energetic traveller can gain a degree of familiarity and affection for a variety of people and places. He describes our planet as a source of endless interest, beauty and wonder that would continue to provide incredible experiences even if he were to live to be a thousand years old. Join Trevor in his tour to some of the most beautiful places in the world and enjoy his musings on people, nature and all things philosophical; this is the ideal book either for those wishing to follow in his footsteps, or anyone stuck at home wishing for a chance to go explore!

Reckless Traveler

Reckless Traveler
Author: Walter Rhein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: Americans
ISBN: 9780991465484

Reckless Traveler: an autobiographical novel of adventuring in South America, sure to delight anyone with a passport. > > Per and beyond: Through the alchemy of travel, youthful folly may bring disaster or wisdom . . . and more. > > The instructional travel guide for aspiring backpackers: learn how to bribe police, avoid malaria, and find employment abroad -- and what to do (and not to do) when armed mercenaries detain your charter bus. > > Awaken your inner explorer with Walter Rhein's Reckless Traveler, expat tales from a decade of discovery.

Handbook of British Travel Writing

Handbook of British Travel Writing
Author: Barbara Schaff
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2020-09-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110498979

This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.

Traveler

Traveler
Author: L.E. DeLano
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2017-02-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250100402

A teen writer discovers that every mirror is a portal into an alternate version of her life in this romantic YA fantasy by author L.E. DeLano.

Interpretations of Beowulf

Interpretations of Beowulf
Author: Robert D. Fulk
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1991-03-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780253206398

Interpretations of Beowulf brings together over six decades of literary scholarship. Illustrating a variety of interpretative schools, the essays not only deal with most of the major issues of Beowulf criticism, including structure, style, genre, and theme, but also offer the sort of explanations of particular passages that are invaluable to a careful reading of a poem. This up-to-date collection of significant critical approaches fills a long-standing need for a companion volume for the study of the poem. Larger patterns in the history of Beowulf criticism are also traceable in the chronological order of the collection. The contributors are Theodore M. Andersson, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Jane Chance, Laurence N. de Looze, Margaret E. Goldsmith, Stanley B. Greenfield, Joseph Harris, Edward B. Irving, Jr., John Leyerle, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., M. B. McNamee, S. J., Bertha S. Phillpotts, John C. Pope, Richard N. Ringler, Geoffrey R. Russom, T. A. Shippey, and J. R. R. Tolkien.

Tombs of the Ancient Poets

Tombs of the Ancient Poets
Author: Nora Goldschmidt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0192561049

Tombs of the Ancient Poets explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets - real or imagined - act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. Drawing together a range of examples, it makes a distinctive contribution to the study of literary reception by focusing on the materiality of the body and the tomb, and the ways in which they mediate the relationship between classical poetry and its readers. From the tomb of the boy poet Quintus Sulpicius Maximus, which preserves his prize-winning poetry carved on the tombstone itself, to the modern votive offerings left at the so-called 'Tomb of Virgil'; from the doomed tomb-hunting of long-lost poets' graves, to the 'graveyard of the imagination' constructed in Hellenistic poetry collections, the essays collected here explore the position of ancient poets' tombs in the cultural imagination and demonstrate the rich variety of ways in which they exemplify an essential mode of the reception of ancient poetry, poised as they are between literary reception and material culture.

Don Quixote

Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 830
Release: 1914
Genre: Knights and knighthood
ISBN: