The Mind Of The TravelerBasic Books, 1991 M04 28 - 328 páginas "The Mind of the Traveler is a panoramic excursion through these transformations of passage. Eric Leed explores the great travel traditions of the West: heroic travel, as in the adventures of Odysseus and the chivalric exploits of medieval knights; sacred travel, as in the holy pilgrimages of penance and purification; and philosophic travel in search of knowledge, wether social, as in Marco Polo's itineraries of the East, or scientific, as in Darwin's discoveries aboard the Beagle". --Publisher. |
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... Paul Theroux on a train passing through Scotland : " Taking the train , to me , is like going to the cinema . " But all passengers are not changed equally by their passage , and a season of passage that changes one person's very ...
... Paul Theroux on a train passing through Scotland : " Taking the train , to me , is like going to the cinema . " But all passengers are not changed equally by their passage , and a season of passage that changes one person's very ...
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... Paul Theroux , on his tour around the coast of Great Britain , noticed many , often elderly , Britons seated on deck- chairs or in their cars , staring for hours across the expanse of the ocean . Regarding this as an inexpensive ...
... Paul Theroux , on his tour around the coast of Great Britain , noticed many , often elderly , Britons seated on deck- chairs or in their cars , staring for hours across the expanse of the ocean . Regarding this as an inexpensive ...
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... Paul Theroux , V. S. Naipaul , Claude Lévi - Strauss . The bitterness and disillusionment of contemporary philosophical travelers weaned on the literature of the heroic age of European discovery - with its conception of uncorrupted ...
... Paul Theroux , V. S. Naipaul , Claude Lévi - Strauss . The bitterness and disillusionment of contemporary philosophical travelers weaned on the literature of the heroic age of European discovery - with its conception of uncorrupted ...
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Travel as Experience 57 | 5 |
The Social Effects of Travel | 14 |
The History of Travel and the History of Culture | 20 |
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