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Exotic Pleasures
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Author : Peter Carey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Exotic Pleasures written by Peter Carey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with categories.
Exotic Pleasures
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Author : Peter Carey
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 1981
Exotic Pleasures written by Peter Carey and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Australia categories.
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Exotic Pleasures
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Author : Engelbert Kaempfer
language : en
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Release Date : 1996
Exotic Pleasures written by Engelbert Kaempfer and has been published by Southern Illinois University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Collections categories.
This intriguing book is the definitive English translation of a mainstay of the Latin-based culture of the Renaissance. Engelbert Kaempfer, referred to as "the Humboldt of the seventeenth century," was a German scholar and physician who devoted an entire decade to cultural and scientific explorations. Beginning in 1683 with his departure from Sweden, where he took a position as secretary to the Swedish Embassy, and ending with his arrival in Holland in 1693, Kaempfer traveled through Russia, Persia, Arabia, India, Java, Siam, and Japan. He published his master work, Amoenitates Exoticae, shortly before his death in 1716. This extensive work was divided into five fascicles: (1) the state of the Persian court; (2) historical and scientific reports and observations on various things; (3) curious scientific and medical observations; (4) botanical and historical reports concerning the cultivation of the date palm in Persia; and (5) Japanese plants. Kaempfer, a researcher in both the humanities and the sciences, insisted on the primacy of reason and scientific methodology, both of which find solid confirmation in this book, the third fascicle of the five-fascicle work. His chapters include information on Persian mummy, the dracunculus worm on the coast of the Persian Gulf, snake dances of Eastern India, Chinese acupuncture, the history of Japanese tea, and the magic spells of the Makassars. As one of the major contributions of its time, Kaempfer's detailed examinations, observations, and explanations offer insight and understanding into both cultural and historical contexts that would otherwise have been lost.
City Of Lingering Splendor
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Author : John Blofeld
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2001-05-01
City Of Lingering Splendor written by John Blofeld and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-01 with History categories.
In his early twenties, John Blofeld spent what he describes as "three exquisitely happy years" in Peking during the era of the last emperor, when the breathtaking greatness of China's ancient traditions was still everywhere evident. Arriving in 1934, he found a city imbued with the atmosphere of the recent imperial past and haunted by the powerful spirit of the late Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi. He entered a world of magnificent palaces and temples of the Forbidden City, of lotus-covered lakes and lush pleasure-gardens, of bustling bazaars and peaceful bathhouses, and of "flower houses" with their beautiful young courtesans versed in the arts of pleasing men. With a novelists' command of detail and dialogue, Blofeld vividly re-creates the magic of these years and conveys to the reader his appreciation and nostalgia for a way of life long vanished.
City Of Lingering Splendour
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Author : John Blofeld
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
City Of Lingering Splendour written by John Blofeld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Beijing (China) categories.
The author spent many years in China, particularly Peking, where he came to know the language and people well. He became intimate with all sorts of colourful people - silk-clad scholars, Buddhist monks, Taoist sages, actors, countless other strange and delectable dishes.
Fabulating Beauty
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Fabulating Beauty written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Peter Carey is one of Australia’s finest creative writers, much admired by both literary critics and a worldwide reading public. While academia has been quick to see his fictions as exemplars of postcolonial and postmodern writing strategies, his general readership has been captivated by his deadpan sense of humour, his quirky characters, the outlandish settings and the grotesqueries of his intricate plots. After three decades of prolific writing and multiple award-winning, Carey stands out in the world of Australian letters as designated heir to Patrick White. Fabulating Beauty pays tribute to Carey’s literary achievement. It brings together the voices of many of the most renowned Carey critics in twenty essays (sixteen commissioned especially for this volume), an interview with the author, as well as the most extensive bibliography of Carey criticism to date. The studies represent a wide range of current perspectives on the writer’s fictions. Contributors focus on issues as diverse as the writer’s biography; his use of architectural metaphors; his interrogation of narrative structures such as myths and cultural master-plots; intertextual strategies; concepts of sacredness and references to the Christian tradition; and his strategies of rewriting history. Amidst predictions of the imminent death of ‘postist’ theory, the essays all attest to the ongoing relevance of the critical parameters framed by postmodernism and postcolonialism.
25 Exotic Sex Positions That Will Improve Your Relationship
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Author : Amanda Skye
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-12-17
25 Exotic Sex Positions That Will Improve Your Relationship written by Amanda Skye and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-17 with categories.
In this book you will discover how to improve your life by getting rid of any impression of monotony and stagnation you may be experiencing in your marriage after a number of years. The key to extended happiness and fulfillment is learning the importance of your sex life in your relationship. Especially after several years it's essential that you invest a lot in having an exciting and multifaceted sex life with your partner. This book is your guide to making your life easier and more pleasant at the same time. Do you know how many relationship problems can be easily solved when the two people involved still find each other as captivating and passionate as in the beginning? Start improving your sex life by adding something new and compelling and many things will smooth out in your marriage. In the following pages you will discover 25 of the most exotic sex positions that many people have praised for their allure and efficiency. You will get more pleasure and a visibly better relationship after you start spicing up your sex life with creative and unique elements. Add a sense of novelty in your marriage by improving the quality of your sex life and exploring new sides of your sexuality. Start reading this book right away and effect the change you need in your marriage! Now you can have a healthy and revitalized relationship by means of incorporating these 25 amazing exotic sex positions into your life.
Exotic Alien Pleasure
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Author : Royal- Spell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-02
Exotic Alien Pleasure written by Royal- Spell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-02 with categories.
Brad, Lucy, and the one hundred Earth survivors found themselves alone as couples ... and left totally naked by the UFO mother-ship that was orbiting above Planet Paradise.Like rats in a maze, the first thing they all looked for was food ... and they found plenty of it ... but it failed to satisfy their hunger. The Earth abductees all wandered around becoming delusional from eating the purple-passion fruit. Everyone succumbed to the aphrodisiac and narcotic effects of the deadly designer fruit of Planet Paradise. They all nearly died from the killer effects of the exotic passion fruits that left them disoriented.They could not help it ... but they all stayed drug-drunk ... and everyday was worse. The effects were worse than an overdose of 190-proof alcohol ... like vodka.The exotic fruits caused all of them to eat like pigs and fumble around at mating in a delirious fog... but why were so many of them starving to death if they were eating so much?Get the sixth of 15 novels in this science-fiction-romance series from Amazon: Planet Paradise Series - Book 6: Exotic Alien Pleasures - Deadly Killer Aphrodisiacs by Royal-Spell
Peter Carey
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Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2010-03-10
Peter Carey written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Peter Carey, writer of such celebrated works as Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang, and His Illegal Self, is one of Australia's most critically acclaimed novelists. Deeply concerned with South Pacific culture, especially the lives of its most downtrodden citizens, Carey uses popular art as a tool for raising the consciousness of readers. This book provides an introduction to the author's life, as well as a guided overview of his body of work. Designed for the fan and scholar alike, this text features an alphabetized, fully-annotated listing of major terms in the Carey canon, including fictional characters, motifs, historical events, and themes. Additional features include a listing of headwords, a Carey history, 44 reading and writing topics, and bibliographies of primary and secondary sources. A comprehensive index is included.
Inventing Exoticism
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Author : Benjamin Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2015-02-09
Inventing Exoticism written by Benjamin Schmidt and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-09 with History categories.
As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world. The shapes and meanings of the extraordinary global images that emerged from this process form the subject of this highly original and richly textured study of cultural geography. Inventing Exoticism draws on a vast range of sources from history, literature, science, and art to describe the energetic and sustained international engagements that gave birth to our modern conceptions of exoticism and globalism. Illustrated with more than two hundred images of engravings, paintings, ceramics, and more, Inventing Exoticism shows, in vivid example and persuasive detail, how Europeans came to see and understand the world at an especially critical juncture of imperial imagination. At the turn to the eighteenth century, European markets were flooded by books and artifacts that described or otherwise evoked non-European realms: histories and ethnographies of overseas kingdoms, travel narratives and decorative maps, lavishly produced tomes illustrating foreign flora and fauna, and numerous decorative objects in the styles of distant cultures. Inventing Exoticism meticulously analyzes these, while further identifying the particular role of the Dutch—"Carryers of the World," as Defoe famously called them—in the business of exotica. The form of early modern exoticism that sold so well, as this book shows, originated not with expansion-minded imperialists of London and Paris, but in the canny ateliers of Holland. By scrutinizing these materials from the perspectives of both producers and consumers—and paying close attention to processes of cultural mediation—Inventing Exoticism interrogates traditional postcolonial theories of knowledge and power. It proposes a wholly revisionist understanding of geography in a pivotal age of expansion and offers a crucial historical perspective on our own global culture as it engages in a media-saturated world.