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Common Tongue, Marianne Rogoff May 2011

Common Tongue, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

Since publishing A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers Tales has been the recognized leader in women's travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women's travel writing of the year. This title is the seventh in an annual series The Best Women's Travel Writing that presents inspiring and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. The common threads are a woman's perspective and compelling storytelling to …

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Human Nature, Marianne Rogoff Dec 2010

Human Nature, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

"Clay has strong opinions about everything. Americans: materialistic, all they care about is money. Colombians: dangerous. Artists: insane. Poets: not interested. Gays: unnatural. Death: no such thing.

He sits beside me in the jardin in Mexico because it’s sunny here. He is searching for light, to banish demons, doesn’t even want to say the name devil because that conjures it up, makes it too real. His body is large, American midwestern, substantial. His hands fold and unfold in his lap. I am visiting in this town alone, newlyunwed. I study Clay’s muscular forearms, attracted, shocked by every word that comes …

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Poe's Poetry Of The Exotic, Brian Yothers Aug 2010

Poe's Poetry Of The Exotic, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

This essay examines Edgar Allan Poe's poetry in relation to popular nineteenth-century American travel writing. The link takes you to a description of the book on the publisher's website.

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12 Hours In Barcelona, Marianne Rogoff Aug 2010

12 Hours In Barcelona, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

"The flight from Palma, Mallorca, Spain, to San Francisco, California, includes a long layover in the city of Gaudi. I land in Barcelona at 6 P.M. and will be on another plane from the same airport at dawn. I can easily “kill time” at the huge airport: shop, eat, read, sleep in uncomfortable chairs. I consider dropping some Euros on a hotel in town. But why kill time, when time is all I have? I place my luggage in a large airport locker and get on a bus to the center of the city. No plan, except to see …

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Introduction: South Asia And The Americas, Brian Yothers, Pramod Nayar Dec 2008

Introduction: South Asia And The Americas, Brian Yothers, Pramod Nayar

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.

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Facing East, Facing West: Mark Twain's Following The Equator And Pandita Ramabai's The Peoples Of The United States, Brian Yothers Dec 2008

Facing East, Facing West: Mark Twain's Following The Equator And Pandita Ramabai's The Peoples Of The United States, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

Mark Twain's Following the Equator (1897), a narrative of a journey to the South Pacific, Australia, South Asia, and South Africa, has occupied a small but significant space in the consideration of Twain's wider career as both a travel writer and social critic. Twain's work has not, however, been considered in conjunction with the works of later nineteenth-century South Asian travelers in North America. The present article puts Twain's discussion of India and Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) in dialogue with Indian scholar and women's rights activist Pandita Ramabai's 1889 travelogue The Peoples of the United States.

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Co-Editor, With Maria-Pia Di Bella, Brian Yothers Dec 2007

Co-Editor, With Maria-Pia Di Bella, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

I have been a co-editor of Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing since 2008. This interdisciplinary journal appears twice a year and is published by Berghahn Books (New York and Oxford).

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Alive In Lisbon, Marianne Rogoff Dec 2007

Alive In Lisbon, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

"My hotel is as I pictured it, simple with all the comforts: nice bed, private bath (with bidet and tub), phone, desk, and best: terrace and wide-angle view of the red-tiled roofs of the vast city of Lisbon. The light of late afternoon is soft-focus and other- worldly. At night circus/calliope rhythms reach my windows from a courtyard below, where a large group of teenagers practice a line dance, march, grapevine, side step, swing your partner, singing along in Portuguese."

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Oscar Wilde's West, Jan Wellington Aug 2007

Oscar Wilde's West, Jan Wellington

Jan Wellington

No abstract provided.

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Various, Daniel Terkla Dec 2006

Various, Daniel Terkla

Daniel Terkla

Selections by the author: Marco Polo, 165-167; William of Rubruck, 357; Ludovico de Varthema, 322-324.

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Japan: A Traveler’S Literary Companion, Jeffrey Angles Dec 2005

Japan: A Traveler’S Literary Companion, Jeffrey Angles

Jeffrey Angles

This collection guides the reader through the complexity that is Japan. Although frequently misunderstood as a homogeneous nation, Japan is a land of tremendous linguistic, geographical, and cultural diversity. Hino Keizo leads the reader through Tokyo's mazes in "Jacob's Tokyo Ladder." Tada Chimako explores the modern-day ghosts of Kobe. Asada Jiro guides us across the rural, snowy expanses of Hokkaido. Atoda Takashi takes us to Kyoto to follow the mystery of a pair of shoes and discover the death of a stranger. The stories, like the country and the people, are beautiful and compelling. Let these literary masters be your …

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Raven, Marianne Rogoff Dec 2005

Raven, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

"David, Richie, and Raven were all together in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, because Raven lived here now, and Raven was dying. I met David and Richie one night at Tio Lucas bar about halfway through their visit. Next day Raven drove past the three of us out walking in town and asked them later, “Who’s the babe?” It had been a while since I was called a babe, and I liked it. We had one week. This created a glow around us, intensity to our time together that was a miniature, more frivolous mirror of Raven’s urgency. At …

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The Familiar And The Strange: Western Travelers' Maps Of Europe And Asia, Ca. 1600-1800, Jordana Dym Dec 2003

The Familiar And The Strange: Western Travelers' Maps Of Europe And Asia, Ca. 1600-1800, Jordana Dym

Jordana Dym

Early Modern European travelers sought to gather and disseminate knowledge through narratives written for avid publishers and public. Yet not all travelers used the same tools to inform their readers. Despite a shared interest in conveying new knowledge based on eyewitness authority, Grand Tour accounts differed in an important respect from travelogues about Asia: they were less likely to include maps until the late eighteenth century. This paper examines why, using travel accounts published between 1600 and 1800 about Italy and (...) France (Europe) and India and Japan (Asia). It argues that maps of different types--coastlines, city plans, country topographies--appeared …

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Promenades Autobiographiques. Autobiographical Journeys, Servanne Woodward, Jeremy Worth Dec 2000

Promenades Autobiographiques. Autobiographical Journeys, Servanne Woodward, Jeremy Worth

Servanne Woodward

No abstract provided.

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Various, Daniel Terkla Dec 1999

Various, Daniel Terkla

Daniel Terkla

Selections by the author: Martin Behaim, 55-56; lignum aloes, 342-343; Psalter Map, 505-506.

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