Living with Cannibals and Other Women's Adventures

Living with Cannibals and Other Women's Adventures
Title Living with Cannibals and Other Women's Adventures PDF eBook
Author Michele B. Slung
Publisher
Pages 264
Release 2000
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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Slung showcases the inspiring, pulse-pounding stories of adventurous women from the 19th century to the present. These accounts have been culled from the National Geographic Society's vast 111-year-old collection of first-person narratives by women explorers. 30 photos, illustrations, & line drawings.

Going Places

Going Places
Title Going Places PDF eBook
Author Robert Burgin
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 837
Release 2013-01-08
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
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Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.

Presenting America's World

Presenting America's World
Title Presenting America's World PDF eBook
Author Tamar Y. Rothenberg
Publisher Routledge
Pages 210
Release 2016-12-05
Genre Science
ISBN 1351909169

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National Geographic magazine is probably the most visible and popular expression of geography in the USA. Presenting America's World presents a critical analysis of the world portrayed by National Geographic, from its formative years in the nineteenth century, through to 1945. It situates the National Geographic Society's development within the context of a new American overseas expansionism, interrogates the magazine as America's ubiquitous source of wholesome exotica and erotica, examines the ways in which it framed the world for its millions of readers, and questions its participation in the cultural work of US global hegemony. The book argues that National Geographic successfully employed 'strategies of innocence', a contradictory stance of representation which simultaneously asserts innocence - either the innocence of 'just watching' or the innocence of altruistic behaviour - while naturalizing Western hegemony. Presenting America's World not only considers the world that National Geographic presented to its readers, but also examines the magazine’s own institutional world of writers, photographers and editors. Particular attention is paid to Gilbert H. Grosvenor, the magazine's editor for over 50 years, Maynard Owen Williams, a writer and photographer who worked on nearly 100 articles from 1919 to 1960 and Harriet Chalmers Adams, a freelancer, explorer and Pan-American activist who contributed 21 articles.

Drama Kings

Drama Kings
Title Drama Kings PDF eBook
Author Dalma Heyn
Publisher Rodale
Pages 236
Release 2005-11-05
Genre Self-Help
ISBN 9781579548889

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An analysis of relationships between strong women and emotionally weak men counsels women on how to recognize warning signs, prevent partners from sabotaging a relationship, and transform a compromising situation into one of strength.

Forthcoming Books

Forthcoming Books
Title Forthcoming Books PDF eBook
Author Rose Arny
Publisher
Pages 1384
Release 2000-06
Genre American literature
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Momilies

Momilies
Title Momilies PDF eBook
Author Michele B. Slung
Publisher
Pages 196
Release 2006
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9780345492104

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A marvelous collection of the wit, wisdom and worry of mothers of every race, religion, and ethnicity has been re-released in this 20th anniversary edition.

A Century of Travels in China

A Century of Travels in China
Title A Century of Travels in China PDF eBook
Author Douglas Kerr
Publisher Hong Kong University Press
Pages 255
Release 2007-05-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9622098452

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Writings of travelers have shaped ideas about an evolving China, while preconceived ideas about China also shaped the way they saw the country. A Century of Travels in China explores the impressions of these writers on various themes, from Chinese cities and landscapes to the work of Europeans abroad. From the time of the first Opium War to the declaration of the People's Republic, China's history has been one of extraordinary change and stubborn continuities. At the same time, the country has beguiled, scared and puzzled people in the West. The Victorian public admired and imitated Chinese fashions, in furniture and design, gardens and clothing, while maintaining a generally negative idea of the Chinese empire as pagan, backward and cruel. In the first half of the twentieth century, the fascination continued. Most foreigners were aware that revolutionary changes were taking place in Chinese politics and society, yet most still knew very little about the country. But what about those few people from the English-speaking world who had first-hand experience of the place? What did they have to say about the "real" China? To answer this question, we have to turn to the travel accounts and memoirs of people who went to see for themselves, during China's most traumatic century. While this book represents the work of expert scholars, it is also accessible to non-specialists with an interest in travel writing and China, and care has been taken to explain the critical terms and ideas deployed in the essays from recent scholarship of the travel genre.