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Have Culture, Will Travel: Cultural Citizenship And The Imagined Communities Of Diaspora; A Fiction, Wenche Ommundsen Nov 2011

Have Culture, Will Travel: Cultural Citizenship And The Imagined Communities Of Diaspora; A Fiction, Wenche Ommundsen

Wenche Ommundsen

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Indonesia As An Archipelago: Managing Islands, Managing The Seas, Robert Cribb, Michele Ford Dec 2008

Indonesia As An Archipelago: Managing Islands, Managing The Seas, Robert Cribb, Michele Ford

Robert Cribb

Indonesia's archipelagic character shapes its identity.


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).


Moose Crossing: Portland To Portland On The Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, Max Skidmore Dec 2006

Moose Crossing: Portland To Portland On The Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, Max Skidmore

Max J. Skidmore

A history of the northernmost transcontinental road in the US in the1920s and 1930s, including a discussion of the development of ground transportation in the early 20th century, and an account of a modern journey over the old route, a distance of more than 4000 miles; a discussion of Theodore Roosevelt and a brief biography is included.


The Thrill Of Being Here: A Letter From Fortin De Las Flores, Mexico, John D. Hazlett Dec 2005

The Thrill Of Being Here: A Letter From Fortin De Las Flores, Mexico, John D. Hazlett

John D Hazlett

"The Thrill of Being Here" is an epistolary meditative essay on the desire for, and difficulties of, penetration, considered as a goal of travel, intercultural communication, and understanding of the other. Writing from a small town situated in the uplands of Veracruz, Mexico, Hazlett considers the possibility that a series of acupuncture sessions might serve as a fine metaphor for his year living and working abroad.


“Behind Folding Shutters In Whittingehame House”: Alice Blanche Balfour (1850–1936) And Amateur Natural History, Donald L. Opitz Phd Dec 2003

“Behind Folding Shutters In Whittingehame House”: Alice Blanche Balfour (1850–1936) And Amateur Natural History, Donald L. Opitz Phd

Donald L. Opitz

During the rise of professional biology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, individual naturalists continued to develop private collections by modest means and often within their own homes. Despite the increasing opportunities for women to participate in the sciences, the number of women entomologists remained relatively few. The amateur entomological career of Alice Blanche Balfour, the younger sister of Arthur James Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, reveals how a confluence of personal and social factors shaped a gentlewoman's capacity to pursue her interests in natural history. This paper revises earlier images of Alice Balfour by presenting her as …