Tag: Travel

April 4, 2023

Travel and Drugs in Twentieth-Century Literature

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Free Download Travel and Drugs in Twentieth-Century Literature By Lindsey Michael Banco
2009 | 198 Pages | ISBN: 0415998611 | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines the connections between two disparate yet persistently bound thematics — mobility and intoxication — and explores their central yet frequently misunderstood role in constructing subjectivity following the 1960s. Emerging from profound mid-twentieth-century changes in how drugs and travel were imagined, the conceptual nexus discussed sheds new light on British and North American responses to sixties counterculture. With readings of Aldous Huxley, William Burroughs, Alex Garland, Hunter S. Thompson, and Robert Sedlack, Banco traces twin arguments, looking at the ways travel is imagined as a disciplinary force acting upon the creative, destabilizing powers of psychedelic intoxication; and exploring the ways drugs help construct travel spaces and practices as, at times, revolutionary, and at other times, neo-colonial. By following a sequence of shifting understandings of drug and travel orthodoxies, this book traverses fraught and irresistibly linked terrains from the late 1950s up to a period marked by international, postmodern tourism. As such, it helps illuminate a world where tourism is continually expanding yet constantly circumscribed, and where illegal drugs are both increasingly unregulated in the global economy and perceived more and more as crucial agents in the construction of human subjectivity.

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April 3, 2023

Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700 To the East and Back Again

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Free Download Montserrat Piera, "Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700: To the East and Back Again"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1942401590 | PDF | pages: 295 | 132.0 mb
With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how Islamic and eastern cultural threads were weaved, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse and, ultimately, into the artistic explosion which has been labeled the "Renaissance." Scholars from across humanities disciplines examine Islamic, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and English works from a truly comparative and non-parochial perspective, to explore the transfer through travel of cultural and religious values and artistic and scientific practices, from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries.

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April 3, 2023

Lonely Planet Iceland (Travel Guide)

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Free Download Lonely Planet Iceland (Travel Guide) by Alexis Averbuck
English | July 1, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BHD9VLCM | 1162 pages | EPUB | 15 Mb
Lonely Planet’s Iceland is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Drive the Ring Road, glimpse the northern lights, and swim in the Blue Lagoon; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Iceland and begin your journey now!

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April 3, 2023

Lonely Planet France (Travel Guide)

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Free Download Lonely Planet France (Travel Guide) by Alexis Averbuck, Oliver Berry, Jean-Bernard Carillet
English | May 1, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BHDD3M4T | 1024 pages | EPUB | 30 Mb
Lonely Planet’s Franceis your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore Bordeaux’s wineries, lose yourself in Paris, or reach new heights in the French Alps; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of France and begin your journey now!

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