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In Under the Southern Cross by Maturin M. Ballou, readers are transported to the enchanting and exotic landscapes of the Southern Hemisphere. This travelogue captivates with its vivid descriptions of diverse cultures, natural wonders, and colonial experiences, presented in Ballous engaging and detailed prose. Written in the mid-19th century, the book captures a time when travel literature was gaining popularity, providing invaluable insights into the eras perceptions of the Southern Hemisphere. Readers will immerse themselves in the beauty and challenges of the region through Ballous observant and descriptive storytelling. Maturin M. Ballous meticulous research and personal experiences undoubtedly shaped his compelling narrative in Under the Southern Cross. His adventurous spirit and keen eye for detail set the stage for a captivating exploration of the Southern Hemisphere. This book is recommended for history enthusiasts, travel aficionados, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the diverse and complex region of the Southern Hemisphere.

Jerome K. Jeromes Diary of a Pilgrimage is a humorous and satirical account of a journey to Oberammergau, Germany to see the famous Passion Play. Written in a witty and lighthearted style, the book blends travelogue with social commentary, offering a unique perspective on the pilgrimage experience in the late 19th century. Jeromes use of humor and irony adds depth to his observations on religion, society, and human nature. His detailed descriptions and engaging narrative voice make the reader feel as though they are accompanying him on this journey of self-discovery. Jerome K. Jerome, known for his iconic work Three Men in a Boat, drew inspiration for Diary of a Pilgrimage from his own travels and observations of society. His keen wit and insightful commentary shine through in this lesser-known work, showcasing his versatility as a writer. Despite being overshadowed by his more famous novel, this book offers a treasure trove of wit and wisdom that is sure to entertain and enlighten readers interested in travel literature and social satire. I highly recommend Diary of a Pilgrimage to readers who enjoy humorous travel writing and social commentary. Jerome K. Jeromes wit and charm make this book a delightful and thought-provoking read that will leave a lasting impression.

In "Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy," Johann Wolfgang von Goethe presents a brilliant amalgamation of personal reflection and travel narrative, revealing the profound influence of nature and culture on his artistic sensibilities. Written during his pivotal journeys in 1779 and 1786, these letters intertwine lyrical prose with vivid descriptions, showcasing Goethes Romantic ideals and his quest for aesthetic experience. This work not only captures the idyllic landscapes of Switzerland and Italy but also serves as a vehicle for Goethes evolving philosophical and artistic identity within the context of the Enlightenment and burgeoning Romanticism. Goethe, a polymath of the German Enlightenment, was profoundly influenced by his exposure to various cultures and natural environments during his travels. His literary prowess was shaped by his early encounters with the Sturm und Drang movement and the philosophies of Kant and Rousseau. These travels offered him a deeper understanding of the interplay between the self and the external world, informing his subsequent contributions to literature and philosophy. This volume is highly recommended for readers seeking an immersive exploration of 18th-century Europe through Goethes discerning eye. Its rich narrative and insightful reflections not only enhance our understanding of Goethes oeuvre but also invite contemporary readers to consider the lasting relationship between travel, culture, and the human experience.In this enriched edition, we have carefully created added value for your reading experience:- A succinct Introduction situates the works timeless appeal and themes.- The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists.- A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the eras events and influences that shaped the writing.- An Author Biography reveals milestones in the authors life, illuminating the personal insights behind the text.- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.- Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the works messages, connecting them to modern life.- Handpicked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.

In "Impressions of America," Oscar Wilde presents a captivating and wry travelogue that chronicles his observations of American society during his tour in 1882. Written with WildeAos signature wit and flamboyant prose, the book blends humor with astute cultural critique, revealing both the charm and contradictions of a rapidly modernizing nation. The work is situated within the context of post-Civil War America, highlighting themes of individuality, commercialism, and the pursuit of happiness, as Wilde juxtaposes American ideals against European sensibilities. Oscar Wilde, renowned for his sharp wit and aesthetic philosophy, found a complex fascination with America, a nation characterized by its boldness and democratic spirit. His experiences, stemming from a desire to escape the rigid societal norms of Victorian England, were enriched by his interactions with diverse American figures and landscapes. This journey not only influenced his understanding of art and culture but also deepened his critique of social conventions that he routinely challenged in his own work. For readers seeking an entertaining yet thought-provoking exploration of American identity through an outsiders lens, "Impressions of America" is indispensable. Wildes unique perspective invites reflection on the American ethos while simultaneously offering timeless insights into the universal human experience.

In "Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays," Robert Louis Stevenson presents a rich tapestry of travel narratives intertwined with contemplative essays. This collection offers an evocative glimpse into Stevensons adventures as he journeys across the American landscape. His literary style merges vivid descriptive passages with introspective musings, embodying the Romantic spirit that defines much of his work. The essays reflect not only his deep appreciation for nature and culture but also a critical engagement with the societal norms of his time, capturing the tension between progress and tradition in late 19th-century America. Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist renowned for his adventure classics such as "Treasure Island," was also a passionate traveler whose experiences profoundly shaped his literary voice. His lifelong struggle with health issues compelled him to seek solace in travel, both as a means of physical rejuvenation and existential inquiry. Through this lens, "Across the Plains" becomes a personal account of discovery, revealing his fascination with the vastness of the American West and its impact on his worldview. Readers of Stevensons works and those interested in travel literature will find this book to be a compelling exploration of place, memory, and reflection. It serves as an invitation to embark on a journey through the landscapes of both the mind and the heart, making it a must-read for anyone captivated by the art of travel writing.

In "Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World," Mark Twain embarks on a captivating travelogue that combines sharp wit, keen observation, and social commentary. Written in 1897, the book chronicles Twains global adventures across diverse locales, from the British Empire to the South Seas, reflecting his characteristic blend of humor and incisive critique of imperialism and societal norms. The literary style, marked by Twains signature vernacular and vivid descriptions, immerses readers in the sights and sounds of the world, while exposing the absurdities and contradictions of contemporary civilization at the turn of the 20th century. Mark Twain, one of Americas most celebrated literary figures, was propelled to write this travel narrative during a financially trying period, prompted by his desire for both adventure and economic relief. Known for his earlier works such as "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," TwainAos experiences in travel not only equipped him with rich material for storytelling but also shaped his perspective on humanity. His reflections during this journey reveal a deep understanding of cultural differences and highlight the universal flaws that bind people together. For readers seeking an engaging blend of travel narrative and incisive social critique, "Following the Equator" is an essential read. Twains unique voice and perceptive observations invite audiences to reflect on both historical and contemporary issues, making this travelogue a timely exploration of the world through the eyes of one of literatureAos greats.

This book is the essential companion for anyone exploring the new Fife Pilgrim Way, whether on foot, by car or bicycle or simply as an armchair traveller.Packed with history, vivid anecdote and nearly 100 colour illustrations, it brings to life the fascinating communities and the characters along the route in whose footsteps modern pilgrims are treading. Setting off with Celtic saints and St Margaret from Culross and North Queensferry, marching with miners through the West Fife coalfields, carrying on with Covenanters and Communists, and ending among the martyrs, relics and ghosts of the haunted city of St Andrews, this gripping narrative presents a journey through Scottish history, ancient and modern, with spiritual reflections along the way.

Almost 300,000 people officially complete the journey to Santiago each year hundreds of thousands more travel at least part of the way. In this book, Richard Frazer discovers on his pilgrimage to the shrine of St James the Great how a journey wherever it is made undertaken with an open and hospitable heart can provide spiritual renewal and transformation, filling what many people see as the spiritual void in 21st century life. This absorbing account reveals how the pilgrim journey can be nourishment for the human heart. It connects us to landscape and brings us to the mystery of what it is to be human and vulnerable and open to the kindness of strangers and the gift of the new and the unexpected.

My First Summer in the Sierra describes two years period of Muirs life during which he lived in a cabin in Californian mountains. When he came to California and finally settled in San Francisco, John Muir immediately left for a visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. Seeing it for the first time, Muir noted that "He was overwhelmed by the landscape, scrambling down steep cliff faces to get a closer look at the waterfalls, whooping and howling at the vistas, jumping tirelessly from flower to flower." He climbed a number of mountains, including Cathedral Peak and Mount Dana, and hiked the old Indian trail down Bloody Canyon to Mono Lake.

The papers brought together in this volume have, in a general way, been arranged in chronological sequence. They span a period of twenty-nine years of Muirs life, during which they appeared as letters and articles, for the most part in publications of limited and local circulation. The Utah and Nevada sketches, and the two San Gabriel papers, were contributed, in the form of letters, to the San Francisco Evening Bulletin toward the end of the seventies. Written in the field, they preserve the freshness of the authors first impressions of those regions.

John Muir made four trips to Alaska, as far as Unalaska and Barrow. Muir, Mr. Young and a group of Native American Guides first traveled to Alaska in 1879 and were the first Euro-Americans to explore Glacier Bay. Muir Glacier was later named after him. He traveled into British Columbia a third of the way up the Stikine River, likening its Grand Canyon to "a Yosemite that was a hundred miles long". Muir recorded over 300 glaciers along the rivers course. He returned for further explorations in southeast Alaska in 1880 and in 1881 was with the party that landed on Wrangel Island on the USS Corwin and claimed that island for the United States. He documented this experience in journal entries and newspaper articleslater compiled and edited into his book The Cruise of the Corwin. In 1888 after seven years of managing the Strentzel fruit ranch in Alhambra Valley, California, his health began to suffer. He returned to the hills to recover, climbing Mount Rainier in Washington and writing Ascent of Mount Rainier.Contents: Travels in AlaskaThe Cruise of the CorwinStickeen: The Story of a DogAlaska Days With John Muir by Samuel Hall Young

When John Muir moved to San Francisco, he immediately left for a week-long visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. Seeing it for the first time, Muir noted that "He was overwhelmed by the landscape, scrambling down steep cliff faces to get a closer look at the waterfalls, whooping and howling at the vistas, jumping tirelessly from flower to flower." He climbed a number of mountains, including Cathedral Peak and Mount Dana, and hiked the old Indian trail down Bloody Canyon to Mono Lake. He lived in the cabin for two years and wrote about this period in his book First Summer in the Sierra. Muir wrote few more books about his days in California and also a few about Californias nature and wild life including The Mountains of California, Our National Parks, The Yosemite and Picturesque California.

The Mountains of California is Muirs tribute to the beauties of the Sierra. When he came to California and finally settled in San Francisco, John Muir immediately left for a visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. Seeing it for the first time, Muir noted that "He was overwhelmed by the landscape, scrambling down steep cliff faces to get a closer look at the waterfalls, whooping and howling at the vistas, jumping tirelessly from flower to flower." He climbed a number of mountains, including Cathedral Peak and Mount Dana, and hiked the old Indian trail down Bloody Canyon to Mono Lake. He vividly described not only his journeys through the mountains, valleys and glaciers of Sierra, but also the nature and geology of the area.

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth reveals the beginnings of the forming of Muirs special relation towards nature. He considered the encounters with nature as quite an adventure and at first, paid special attention to bird life. John Muir understood that to discover truth, he must turn to what he believed were the most accurate sources. In his autobiographical account, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, he writes that during his childhood, his father made him read the Bible every day. Muir eventually memorized three-quarters of the Old Testament and all of the New Testament. In his autobiography, written near the end of his life, he described his life from childhood years in Scotland and moving to America to student years in Wisconsin. When he was a student in the University of Wisconsin, he was a frequent caller at the house of Dr. Ezra S. Carr. The kindness shown him there, and especially the sympathy which Mrs. Carr, as a botanist and a lover of nature, felt in the young manes interests and aims, led to the formation of a lasting friendship. He regarded Mrs. Carr, indeed, as his "spiritual mother," and his letters to her in later years are the outpourings of a sensitive spirit to one who he felt thoroughly understood and sympathized with him.

This important, disturbing and frequently heartbreaking book should be read by every politician in Westminster. Adrian Tempany, ObserverIn a few weeks time, it would be thirty-five years to the day since those men and women had walked 340 miles to try to save their communities and their culture, and thirty-five years since I had turned down Petes invitation to join them. I called work and booked some time off. Then I bought a one-way train ticket to Liverpool.In 1981, Mike Carters dad, Pete, organised the Peoples March for Jobs, which saw 300 people walk from Liverpool to London to protest as the Thatcher governments policies devastated industrial Britain and sent unemployment skyrocketing. Just before the 2016 EU referendum, Mike set off to walk the same route in a quest to better understand his dad and his country.As he walked, Mike found many echoes of the early eighties: a working class overlooked and ignored by Westminster politicans; communities hollowed out but fiercely resistant; anger and despair co-existing with hope and determination for change. And he also found that he and Pete shared more in common than he might have thought.All Together Now? maps the intricate, overlapping path of one mans journey and that of an entire country. It is a book about belonging, about whether to stay or go, and about the need to write new stories for our communities and ourselves.

O olhar de Alexandra Lucas Coelho sobre um país de contrastes.Finalista do Prémio Portugal Telecom de Literatura.Recomendado pelo Plano Nacional de LeituraPlano Nacional de LeituraLiteratura - 12-18 anos - Maiores de 18 anosUma viagem, em 2010, da Cidade do Mexico a fronteira mortal de Ciudad Juarez, das montanhas de Chiapas as selvas do Yucatan, em que o poderoso mundo indigena das Americas se cruza com a convulso do presente.Alexandra Lucas Coelho encontra migrantes clandestinos e crentes na Virgem, sobreviventes dos carteis e zapatistas, rappers feministas e travestis, operarias e botanicos, arqueologos e magicos.Uma travessia transformadora por um pais to arcaico quanto futuro, que entra na pele e comove desde o primeiro dia.Os elogios da critica:A escrita e rapida, muito nitida, as vezes lirica, sempre de uma extraordinaria atenço aos detalhes e capaz de maravilhosos achados verbais. (#) Se tivesse que resumir numa frase a experiencia de ler Viva Mexico, diria que esta e uma prosa que no descreve, ilumina. E assim a viagem de quem narra torna-se, quase sem darmos por isso, a viagem de quem le. Sorte a nossa.Jose Mario Silva, ExpressoA semelhança do que ja acontecia em Caderno Afego, tambem neste livro ha uma dimenso poetica que o eleva acima de um comum livro de viagens, isto e grande "literatura de viagens". (#) Este livro e uma delicia, que sem duvida podera ombrear com os classicos do genero. Se a inveja for mesmo um pecado, Viva Mexico pode tornar-nos pecadores, porque invejamos a coragem necessaria para esta viagem fora dos normais circuitos (mesmo para os mais afoitos), o despojamento para atravessar lugares da selva mexicana onde os habitantes do Velho Mundo pouco se aventuram.Jose Riço Direitinho, Publico Quem tem da reportagem a ideia ingenua de aceder a cor local, ao ambiente e a meia duzia de historias, ora comoventes, ora chocantes, bem pode preparar o cerebro para a convulso destes textos. O que aqui lemos no e o Mexico dos postais, ainda que por aqui andem a Virgem de Guadalupe, as caveiras açucaradas e os sombreros. E tambem no e a hecatombe mostrada com cores sanguinarias, naquele tom fabricado para nos deixar chocados com a miseria alheia durante uns minutos, antes de passarmos as noticias da bola. O que aqui lemos e o resultado do encontro, dos muitos encontros que a reporter procura e regista. So as pessoas a materia destes textos, as pessoas e a sua bagagem, que pode incluir sombreros turisticos e assassinatos impunes. (#) No e propriamente o lado humano, no sentido mais lamechas que o termo pode ter, mas antes a certeza do confronto em cada historia partilhada: confronto diario entre o que se espera e o que se alcança, confronto dialectico entre o passado de um pais e a sua construço presente. E isso faz pensar e olhar o mundo de um modo que nenhuma reportagem-choque alcança.Sara Figueiredo Costa, Time Out

Brigid writes with warmth and appreciation of communities that she knows and loves, and she inspires us to explore them Rick SteinWhenever I am talking to customers about the NC500, I always recommend your book for the wonderful photographs and all the extra information it contains David Duguid, Picaresque BooksThis is the essential guide to the north of Scotland, on a route which begins in Inverness, weaves westwards to Applecross and then northwards towards Torridon. From Ullapool it leads to the most northerly points in Britain, passing by Caithness and John o Groats before heading south again through Dingwall and to Inverness.In addition to stunning mountains, moors, lochs and beaches, the route also features exquisite towns and villages, castles, distilleries, breweries, natural wonders and wildlife.Brigid Benson, who knows the road intimately, divides the route into manageable chunks, suggesting where to discover history, observe wildlife, meet great local characters, shop at quirky stores, taste outstanding food, drink in friendly bars and cafes, stand in awe of amazing sights, and recommending places to picnic, swim, surf, walk and stargaze. And great places to camp and stay. She also draws attention to potential pitfalls, offering useful advice on single-track roads, fuel, car problems, planning realistic itineraries, and much more.Stunning, full-colour landscape photography features throughout, and a full list of photographs can be found on page 229 for your reference.

Ever since Captain Cook first sailed into the Great Southern Ocean in 1773, mankind has sought to push back the boundaries of Antarctic exploration. The first expeditions tried simply to chart Antarcticas coastline, but then the Sixth International Geographical Congress of 1895 posed a greater challenge: the conquest of the continent itself. Though the loss of Captain Scotts Polar Party remains the most famous, many of the resulting expeditions suffered fatalities. Some men drowned; others fell into bottomless crevasses; many died in catastrophic fires; a few went mad; and yet more froze to death. Modern technology increased the pace of exploration, but aircraft and motor vehicles introduced entirely new dangers.For the first time, Icy Graves uses the tragic tales not only of famous explorers like Robert Falcon Scott and Aeneas Mackintosh but also of many lesser-known figures, both British and international, to plot the forward progress of Antarctic exploration. It tells, often in their own words, the compelling stories of the brave men and women who have fallen in what Sir Ernest Shackleton called the White Warfare of the South.

One of the greatest travellers in Scotland, Martin Martin was also a native Gaelic speaker. This text offers his narrative of his journey around the Western Isles, and a mine of information on custom, tradition and life. Martin Martins wrote before the Jacobite rebellions changed the way of life of the Highlander irrevocably. The volume includes the earliest account of St Kilda, first published in 1697 and Sir Donald Monro, High Dean of the Isles, account written in 1549 which presents a record of a pastoral visit to islands still coping with the aftermath of the fall of the Lords of the Isles.

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