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Travels In Xanadu Du
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Author : Keef Williamson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-04-18
Travels In Xanadu Du written by Keef Williamson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-18 with Fantasy fiction categories.
In Xanadu
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Author : William Dalrymple
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 1989
In Xanadu written by William Dalrymple and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Asia categories.
In Xanadu is, without doubt, one of the best travel books produced in the last 20 years. It is witty and intelligent, brilliantly observed, deftly constructed and extremely entertaining& Dalrymple s gift for transforming ordinary humdrum experience into something extraordinary and timeless suggests that he will go from strength to strength Alexander Maitland, Scotland on Sunday
Voyager From Xanadu
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Author : Morris Rossabi
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010-02-10
Voyager From Xanadu written by Morris Rossabi and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-10 with History categories.
Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk from China called Rabban Sauma was making the reverse journey from the Mongol capital (what is now Beijing) to Jerusalem. Upon reaching Baghdad—the first traveler to arrive from China—Sauma learned that his pilgrimage could not be fulfilled because of Islamic control of the Holy Land. In Voyager from Xanadu, Morris Rossabi traces Sauma’s trans-Eurasian travels against the turbulent era of the Mongol Empire and the last Crusades. His indispensable book provides a unique first-hand Asian perspective on Europe and illuminates a crucial period in the early history of global, diplomatic, and commercial networking.
Voyager From Xanadu
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Author : Morris Rossabi
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010-02-10
Voyager From Xanadu written by Morris Rossabi and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Voyager from Xanadu, a distinguished historian tells the little-known story of the life and travels of the first person from China ever to reach Europe. Portraying one of the most remarkable early encounters between East and West, Morris Rossabi also brings to life the intriguing and turbulent era of the Mongol Empire and the last Crusades. Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo arrived in China, a Christian monk, Rabban Sauma, left it, embarking on a journey that would prove more momentous than he could have dreamed. What began as a religious pilgrimage to the Middle East (supported by the Mongol Emperor, Khubilai Khan) ultimately became an extraordinary diplomatic mission. After several years' eventful stay in Persia, Sauma was dispatched to Europe by Persia's Mongol ruler, the Ilkhan. The monk's task: to persuade the Pope and the Kings of France and England to ally with the Ilkhan and launch a Crusade against their common enemy, the Muslim dynasty that controlled the Holy Land. The mission was a striking early instance of geopolitics on a modern scale. Voyager from Xanadu vividly conjures up the places Sauma visited as he crossed two continents, meeting with monarchs and prelates and seeing everything from a battle to a volcanic eruption to countless grisly relics of long-dead saints. It provides a clear and penetrating analysis of the volatile international situation of the era and its impact on Sauma's embassy. And, of course, Voyager from Xanadu traces the life of an exceptional man, from his comfortable youth, through his unique adventures, to his death far from the land of his birth.
The Road To Xanadu
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Author : John Livingston Lowes
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
The Road To Xanadu written by John Livingston Lowes and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Poetry categories.
John Livingston Lowes's classic work shows how various images from Coleridge's extensive reading, particularly in travel literature, coalesced to form the imagistic texture of his two most famous poems, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan." Originally published in 1927. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Book Of Marvels And Travels
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Author : Sir John Mandeville
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2012-09-13
The Book Of Marvels And Travels written by Sir John Mandeville and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. A captivating blend of fact and fantasy, Mandeville's Book is newly translated in an edition that brings us closer to Mandeville's worldview.
In Xanadu
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Author : William Dalrymple
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
In Xanadu written by William Dalrymple and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Xanadu
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Author : Martin Terry
language : en
Publisher: National Library Australia
Release Date : 2004
Xanadu written by Martin Terry and has been published by National Library Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
"Xanadu: encounters with China is a very special exhibition for the National Library of Australia, drawing as it does on the Library's maps, pictures, rare books and, most notably, it's Asian material"--Back cover.
The Book Of Travels
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Author : Palmira Johnson Brummett
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009
The Book Of Travels written by Palmira Johnson Brummett and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
The early modern era is often envisioned as one in which European genres, both narrative and visual, diverged indelibly from those of medieval times. This collection examines a disparate set of travel texts, dating from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, to question that divergence and to assess the modes, themes, and ethnologies of travel writing. It demonstrates the enduring nature of the itinerary, the variant forms of witnessing (including imaginary maps), the crafting of sacred space as a cautionary tale, and the use of the travel narrative to represent the transformation of the authorial self. Focusing on European travelers to the expansive East, from the soft architecture of Timur's tent palaces in Samarqand to the ambiguities of sexual identity at the Mughul court, these essays reveal the possibilities for cultural translation as travelers of varying experience and attitude confront remote and foreign (or not so foreign) space.
Writing Travel
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Author : John Zilcosky
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2008-11-13
Writing Travel written by John Zilcosky and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-13 with Literary Collections categories.
Interest in travel writing has grown rapidly within the disciplines of postcolonial and cultural studies; however, recent scholarship has failed to place travel writing within the larger literary tradition. Writing Travel assembles a superb collection of essays that demonstrate how travel attempts to reconfigure the world and, in so doing, to become a metaphor for imagination, subjectivity, and representation itself. Examining a broad range of texts and travellers from across the world, the contributors discuss canonical authors such as Homer, Goethe, and Baudelaire, alongside lesser known writers such as Theodor Herzl, Hans Erich Nossack, and William Gibson. This theoretically rich volume draws connections between travel and narrative, and provides powerful insights into the relationship between travel and the spoken act of storytelling, as well as the more ambivalent act of story writing. An engaging collection of essays by first-rate scholars, Writing Travel is an illuminating exploration of the history of travel writing, its influence on other literary genres, and the origins of narrative.