Rambles Beyond Railways (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)

Rambles Beyond Railways (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)
Title Rambles Beyond Railways (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) PDF eBook
Author Wilkie collins
Publisher ReadHowYouWant.com
Pages 266
Release 2020
Genre
ISBN 1427060355

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Rambles Beyond Railways

Rambles Beyond Railways
Title Rambles Beyond Railways PDF eBook
Author Wilkie Collins
Publisher Jazzybee Verlag
Pages 207
Release 2020
Genre Travel
ISBN 3849658082

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This volume contains an account of a pedestrian tour by Mr. Collins in Cornwall, a county to which railways had not yet penetrated at his time. Leaving Plymouth behind him, the author, and his artist friend, Mr. Brandling, threaded the county from St. Germains to the Lizard and the Land’s-End; visiting the most remarkable places, whether of art or nature, and whether the natural attractions were of the quietly beautiful, the desolate, or the magnificent kind. Mr. Collins, as a pedestrian, was of necessity thrown much among the people; and he has picked up many traits of their character, as well as some curious traditions. There are also matters of a more utilitarian cast, but popularly treated—as a mine, the pilchard fishery, an economical survey of the condition of the poor.

Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot

Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot
Title Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot PDF eBook
Author Wilkie Collins
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 199
Release 2014-03-21
Genre Travel
ISBN 160977485X

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William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1860), The Moonstone (1868), Armadale (1866) and No Name (1862). His works were classified at the time as 'sensation novels', a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective fiction and suspense fiction. He also wrote penetratingly on the plight of women and on the social and domestic issues of his time. His novel, No Name combined social commentary - the absurdity of the law as it applied to children of unmarried parents - with a densely-plotted revenge thriller. Amongst his other works are: Basil (1852), Hide and Seek (1854), After the Dark (1856), The Frozen Deep (1857), The Queen of Hearts (1859), Man and Wife (1870), The New Magdalen (1873), The Law and the Lady (1875), The Two Destinies (1876) and A Rogue's Life (1879).

Rambles Beyond Railways

Rambles Beyond Railways
Title Rambles Beyond Railways PDF eBook
Author Wilkie Collins
Publisher
Pages 346
Release 1851
Genre Cornwall (England : County)
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Rambles Beyond Railways

Rambles Beyond Railways
Title Rambles Beyond Railways PDF eBook
Author Wilkie Collins
Publisher Lindhardt og Ringhof
Pages 199
Release 2022-05-30
Genre History
ISBN 8726933136

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You’ve gotta love those travel documentaries with celebrities awkwardly trying to make their interactions with locals seem impromptu and organic. Perhaps it’s best to let the writers express the escapism of travel. And why not leave travel writing to Wilkie Collins, the star of Victorian-era mystery and thriller novels? In "Rambles Beyond Railways", Collins exchanges his London ale for a Cornish pasty when he writes of his travels around Cornwall. While the Victorians were crazy about building railways, rail access didn’t extend to the whole of Cornwall. Instead, Collins goes by foot across Cornwall with his friend, Henry Brandling, who provided illustrations for the original publication. True to his love of the sensational, Collins explores the enchanting Cornish locations whence stories of ghostly shipwrecks and semi-mythical kings originated. Get lost in Collins’s Cornwall instead of Jeremy Clarkson’s ill-fitting jeans. London-born Wilke Collins (1824-1889) became known in Victorian England for his novels and plays, sometimes writing together with Charles Dickens. His most famous works, "The Woman in White" (1859) and "The Moonstone" (1868), are examples of the first modern detective novels.

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine
Title Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine PDF eBook
Author Gary Fisher
Publisher Anthem Press
Pages 283
Release 2021-09-07
Genre Travel
ISBN 1785278061

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Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic ‘authority’, each contributor writes, from memory during the Covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, ‘accompanied’ by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place. As immobility is forced upon us, at least for the immediate future, we have the chance to reflect. Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine presents opportunities to approach a text as a scholar differently. We break with the traditional academic ‘rules’ by inserting ourselves into the narrative and foregrounding the personal, subjective elements of literary scholarship. Each contributor critiques an historical description of a place about which, simultaneously, they write a personal account.

Rambles in Rome

Rambles in Rome
Title Rambles in Rome PDF eBook
Author Samuel Russell Forbes
Publisher
Pages 382
Release 1882
Genre Art
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