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1 000 Places To See Before You Die The Second Edition
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Author : Patricia Schultz
language : en
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Release Date : 2011-11-15
1 000 Places To See Before You Die The Second Edition written by Patricia Schultz and has been published by Workman Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-15 with Travel categories.
The world’s bestselling travel book is back in a more informative, more experiential, more budget-friendly full-color edition. A #1 New York Times bestseller, 1,000 Places reinvented the idea of travel book as both wish list and practical guide. As Newsweek wrote, it “tells you what’s beautiful, what’s fun, and what’s just unforgettable— everywhere on earth.” And now the best is better. There are 600 full-color photographs. Over 200 entirely new entries, including visits to 28 countries like Lebanon, Croatia, Estonia, and Nicaragua, that were not in the original edition. There is an emphasis on experiences: an entry covers not just Positano or Ravello, but the full 30-mile stretch along the Amalfi Coast. Every entry from the original edition has been readdressed, rewritten, and made fuller, with more suggestions for places to stay, restaurants to visit, festivals to check out. And throughout, the book is more budget-conscious, starred restaurants and historic hotels such as the Ritz,but also moderately priced gems that don’t compromise on atmosphere or charm. The world is calling. Time to answer.
All That Is Wales
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Author : M. Wynn Thomas
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2017-05-05
All That Is Wales written by M. Wynn Thomas and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Wales may be small, but culturally it is richly varied. The aim in this collection of essays on a number of English-language authors from Wales is to offer a sample of the country’s internal diversity. To that end, the author’s examined range – from the exotic Lynette Roberts (Argentinean by birth, but of Welsh descent) and the English-born Peggy Ann Whistler who opted for new, Welsh identity as ‘Margiad Evans’, to Nigel Heseltine, whose bizarre stories of the antics of the decaying squierarchy of the Welsh border country remain largely unknown, and the Utah-based poet Leslie Norris, who brings out the bicultural character of Wales in his Welsh-English translations. The result is a portrait of Wales as a ‘micro-cosmopolitan country’, and the volume is prefaced with an autobiographical essay by one of the leading specialists in the field, authoritatively tracing the steady growth over recent decades of serious, informed and sustained study of what is a major achievement of Welsh culture.
The Nations Of Wales
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Author : M. Wynn Thomas
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2016-05-20
The Nations Of Wales written by M. Wynn Thomas and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Certain simple and stereotypical images of Wales strike an immediate chord with the public, both in Wales itself and beyond its borders. For much of the twentieth century, the country was thought of as ‘The Valleys’, a land of miners and choirs and rugby clubs. This image of a ‘Proletarian Wales’ (with its attendant Socialist politics) dominated popular imagination, just as the image of ‘Nonconformist Wales’ – a Wales of chapels and of a grimly puritan society – had gripped the imagination of the High Victorian era. But what of the Wales of the late Victorian and Edwardian decades? What image of Wales prevailed at that time of revolutionary social, economic, cultural, religious and political change? This book argues that several competing images of Welshness were put in circulation during that time, and proceeds to examine several of the most influential of these as they took the form of literary texts.
R S Thomas
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Author : M. Wynn Thomas
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2013-02-15
R S Thomas written by M. Wynn Thomas and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The study places the work of a major religious poet of the late twentieth century in a number of striking new perspectives that allow him to be viewed for the first time as an 'alternative' war poet, a conscience-stricken pacifist, a jealously opportunistic student of art, and an experimental biographer of the modern soul. Published to mark the centenary of the ‘ogre of Wales’, this volume deals with the idées fixes that serially possessed the fiercely intense imagination of R. S. Thomas: Iago Prytherch, Wales, his family and, of course, a vexingly elusive deity. Here, these familiar obsessions are set in several unusual contexts that bring Thomas’s poetry into startling new relief. The war poetry is considered alongside the poet’s early relationship to the English topographical tradition; comparisons with Borges and Levertov underline the international dimensions of the poetry’s concerns; the intriguing ‘secret code’ of some of Thomas’s Welsh-language references is cracked; and his painting-poems (including several hitherto unpublished) are brought centre-stage from the peripheries to which they have been routinely relegated.
Kate Roberts
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Author : Katie Gramich
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2011-02-15
Kate Roberts written by Katie Gramich and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When the Welsh writer Kate Roberts died in 1985 at the age of 94, the Times obituary noted that 'she was felt by many to rank with Maupassant as one of the leading European short story writers'. Roberts is widely acknowledged as the major twentieth-century novelist and short story writer to have written in the Welsh language, being known and revered in Wales as 'the Queen of our Literature'. Much of her work has been translated into English and other languages and yet she remains today relatively little known and under-appreciated in comparison, for example, with other female contemporaries who wrote in English, such as Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and Elizabeth Bowen. This volume seeks to redress the balance, bringing the life and work of this extraordinary novelist, playwright, short story writer, journalist, and ardent political campaigner to the attention of the wider world audience that the sheer quality of her writing deserves.
Why Wales Never Was
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Author : Simon Brooks
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2017-06-01
Why Wales Never Was written by Simon Brooks and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-01 with History categories.
Written as an act of protest in a Welsh-speaking community in north-west Wales, Why Wales Never Was combines a devastating analysis of the historical failure of Welsh nationalism with an apocalyptic vision of a non-Welsh future. It is the ‘progressive’ nature of Welsh politics and the ‘empire of the civic’, which rejects both language and culture, that prevents the colonised from rising up against his colonial master. Wales will always be a subjugated nation until modes of thought, dominant since the nineteenth century, are overturned. Originally a comment on Welsh acquiescence to Britishness at the time of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the book’s emphasis on the importance of European culture is a parable for Brexit times. Both deeply rooted in Welsh culture and European in scope, Why Wales Never Was brings together history, philosophy and politics in a way never tried before in Wales. First published in Welsh in 2015, Why Wales Never Was affirms the author’s reputation as one of the most radical writers in Wales today.
Footsteps Of Liberty And Revolt
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Author : Mary-Ann Constantine
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Footsteps Of Liberty And Revolt written by Mary-Ann Constantine and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with History categories.
A collection of essays exploring the impact on Welsh culture of one of the most exciting periods in history, the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789.
English Language Poetry From Wales 1789 1806
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Author : Elizabeth Edwards
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2013-02-15
English Language Poetry From Wales 1789 1806 written by Elizabeth Edwards and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-15 with Poetry categories.
This new selection of Anglophone Welsh poetry presents a range of literary responses to the French Revolution and the ensuing wars with France, a period in which Wales and its history became prime imaginative territory for poets of all political sympathies.
In The Shadow Of The Pulpit
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Author : M. Wynn Thomas
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2009-10-15
In The Shadow Of The Pulpit written by M. Wynn Thomas and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-15 with Religion categories.
Writer versus preacher: this book shows how this struggle has lain at the heart of Welsh writing and culture for the past two hundred years, intimately shaping the English language literature produced by Wales. Starting with a simple explanation of the history and character of Welsh Nonconformity, it traces the growing textual response to Nonconformity’s hegemonic cultural power from the eighteenth century onwards, culminating in twentieth-century writers’ attempts to undermine it by wresting words from the control of the pulpit. It also uncovers a whole new body of nineteenth-century fiction from Wales, and re-defines Dylan Thomas’s debt to his Nonconformist ancestors.
The Ghaznavid And Seljuk Turks
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Author : G.E. Tetley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-10-27
The Ghaznavid And Seljuk Turks written by G.E. Tetley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-27 with History categories.
This new view on aspects of the Ghaznavid and Seljuk dynasties concentrates on the relationship of the panegyric poets Farrukhi Sistani (c.995-1032) and Mu'izzi (c.1045-1127) to the Ghaznavid and Seljuk rulers and dignitaries for whom they wrote. Dr Tetley investigates the reliability of the historical information which may be gathered from the poems, and draws comparisons with other historical sources. A solid and impressive work of learning, of interest to scholars in Oriental Studies, Medieval Literature, and History, The Ghaznavid and Seljuk Turks: Poetry as a Source for Iranian History, is the first extended English study of Mu'izzi it presents much new material concerning both this little-studied poet and also the better-known Farrukhi. Additionally, there is a valuable exploration of the relationship between Persians and Turks, a highly significant factor during the rule of the two dynasties.