The Importance of Elsewhere
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78320-874-6 (ISBN)
Why do we travel? What are we doing – and what do we imagine we are doing – when we leave the house, get on a plane and thereby step into globalism? The Importance of Elsewhere is a collection of essays, rooted in Randy Malamud’s own lifetime of travel, that addresses those questions and more. Setting today’s tourism in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century experiences of travel and travel writing, he uncovers motives and appreciations of movement, difference and novelty that are deeply woven into the imperial enterprise – and that remain key drivers of our interest in and enjoyment of travel today. Marrying concrete case studies and lively personal anecdotes, The Importance of Elsewhere will be of interest to any global traveler who has ever stopped to wonder what it is that draws her to faraway places.
Randy Malamud is the Regents' Professor of English at Georgia State University and the author of eight books, including Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity and Poetic Animals and Animal Souls. He regularly writes for Salon and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Travel or Tourism
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Fear of Flying
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Travel Reading: Reading Travel
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'The Importance of Elsewhere'
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LEEDS: Literary Tourism
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ŁÓDŹ: Monty Python's Academic Circus
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COPENHAGEN: Projecting a Triumphant Queer Moment
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LONDON: Sex 2.0
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COTTBUS: Weltspiegel
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BAGHDAD: Reconstructing Iraqi Academe
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TIERRA DEL FUEGO: Penguins at the End of the World
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ZAGREB: The Subversive Summit
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SZOLNOK: Science and Film
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BERLIN: Gestapo Headquarters
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DUBAI: A Cinematic Door to the Middle East
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WARSAW: The Bores of Academe
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COURMAYEUR: Noir
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SVALBARD: Introduction to Arctic Studies
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Erscheinungsdatum | 30.03.2018 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 399 g |
Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseführer |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker) | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78320-874-0 / 1783208740 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78320-874-6 / 9781783208746 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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