Based on a controversial opinion piece originally published in the ” New York Times, ” ” Reclaiming Travel” is a provocative meditation on the meaning of travel from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Ilan Stavans & Joshua Ellison seek to understand why we travel & what has come to be missing from our contemporary understanding of travel. Engaging with canonical & contemporary texts, they explore the differences between travel & tourism, the relationship between travel & memory, the genre of travel writing, & the power of mapmaking, Stavans & Ellison call for a rethinking of the art of travel, which they define as a transformative quest that gives us deeper access to ourselves. Tourism, Stavans & Ellison argue, is inauthentic, choreographed, sterile, shallow, & rooted in colonialism. They critique theme parks & kitsch tourism, such as the shantytown hotels in South Africa where guests stay in shacks made from corrugated metal & cardboard yet have plenty of food, water & space. Tourists, they assert, are merely content with escapism, thrill seeking, or obsessively snapping photographs. Resisting simple moralizing, the authors also remind us that people don`t divide neatly into crude categories like travelers & tourists. They provoke us to reflect on the opportunities & perils in our own habits. In this powerful manifesto, Stavans & Ellison argue that travel should be an art through which our restlessness finds expression--a search for meaning not only in our own lives but also in the lives of others. It is not about the destination; rather, travel is about loss, disorientation, & discovering our place in the universe. ...

A joint publication by the Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) & the Chemical Distribution Institute (CDI), Recommendations for Oil & Chemical Tanker Manifolds & Associated Equipment provides clear recommendations & guidance for oil tankers, chemical tankers & dual classed oil/chemical tankers with the aim of achieving enhanced safety, standardisation & compatibility with terminal facilities. This book contains a significant amount of new tanker industry accepted recommendations on safety & equipment, including additional tonnage categories & recommendations for ship owners. ...

Discover more than 300 of the finest independent hotels & spas in Europe & the Mediterranean. Conde Nast Johansens has an unequalled collection of luxury hotels, inns, resorts & spas from castles in Scotland to exotic spas in the Caribbean. Each property is specially selected for its dedication to the highest standards of comfort, unique personality, warmth & service, impressive facilities & surroundings. If a property does not reach these exacting standards it is rejected. That's why travellers have trusted the integrity & quality of the Conde Nast Johansens mark of distinction for over 28 years. The fully revised & updated 2013 edition of Recommended Hotels & Spas: Europe & the Mediterranean features over 300 of the finest independent hotels & spas. ...

From the biggest to the closest & from the driest to the fastest, this book looks at the amazing record-breakers in the Universe. It uses stunning icons, graphics & visualisations to show you how these amazing planets, stars, comets & asteroids are true galactic greats. See what is inside a volcano & discover how violent a volcanic eruption can be. Discover why conditions on our planets are just right for life to exist. Find out about the planets that exist outside the Solar System & measure how big they are. Weigh how much Moon rock was brought back by the Apollo missions. ...

From the tallest to the shortest, the fastest to the strongest, & the oldest to the richest, this book looks at amazing human record-breakers. It uses stunning icons, graphics & visualisations to show you how human beings keep pushing their potential to the absolute limits. Meet the tallest & shortest people & compare your hand to the biggest in the world! See just how far some divers can swim underwater on a single breath of air. Compare the size of the largest film cast with the population of Icel&. Measure the world`s largest book next to a giraffe. ...

In February 1822 the writer & adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the acquaintance of his heroes Shelley & Byron, leaving a broken marriage & an exotic seafaring career behind him. He became a close companion to them & their circle, & this collection of his reminiscences is one of the most fresh & intriguing documents of the Romantic age. It records his initial meeting with a cynical & flippant Byron, his impressions of a youthful, otherworldly Shelley &, most memorably, the poet`s death at sea & the subsequent burning of his body on the s&. Trelawny`s Records combine vigorous prose, vivid description & mythmaking to create one of the most memorable portraits of an age. Rosemary Hill`s new introduction explores the mysterious life & quixotic character of Trelawny, & this edition

Includes:: all the author`s later revisions. Edward John Trelawny (1792-1881) was one of the most curious figures of the English Romantic Movement, & spent his long life travelling extensively as a naval officer, biographer & adventurer. After a brief education, Trelawny was assigned as a volunteer in the Royal Navy by the age of thirteen, & led an unaccomplished naval career until his resignation at nineteen. He met Shelley & Byron in Italy in 1822, where he became fascinated, almost hypnotized, by the two poets. His Records of Shelley, Byron & the Author, written after both their deaths, is the end-product of this strange obsession. An incorrigible romancer, Trelawny had three marriages
- the second of which was to Tersitza, sister of the Greek warlord Odysseus Androutsos, whose cause he had joined & whose mountain fortress he looked after when Odysseus was arrested. He died after a fall at the age of eighty-eight, in Engl&, & his ashes were buried in Rome in a plot adjacent to Shelley`s grave. Rosemary Ashton was educated at the universities of Aberdeen, Heidelberg & Cambridge. She taught English literature at University College London from 1974 to 2012, & is Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language & Literature & an Honorary Fellow of UCL. She has published critical biographies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas & Jane Carlyle, George Eliot, & George Henry Lewes, two books on Anglo-German literary & cultural relations in the nineteenth century, The German Idea: Four English Writers & the Reception of German Thought 1800-1860 (1980) & Little Germany: Exile & Asylum in Victorian England (1986), & two books about Victorian radicalism, 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London (2006) & Victorian Bloomsbury (2012).


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One of the maps in the topographic survey of Peru from the country’s national survey organization, Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Contours are at 25m intervals & colouring/symbols indicate different types of terrain & vegetation. Some of the maps may contain small blank spaces representing as yet unmapped areas. Each sheet covers 30’ latitude by 30’ longitude. The maps have a 1km UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1’. Publication dates vary; most maps were published in 1960s to 1990s, with some sheets revised more recently. Map legend is in Spanish only, except in the more recent editions which also include English. ...

With Red & White, Oz Clarke has reinvented wine writing. This is a book to read for pleasure, rather than merely refer to. Combining fast-paced witty memoir with passionately opinionated guide, Oz pops the cork on his life-long love affair with wine. The best loved wine communicator of our time, Oz Clarke is the guest you want at your table, the person to select the wine, & the ideal drinking companion. He explains how, why & where he fell in love with wine; he explains the essentials of how wine is grown & made today; then takes you into the world`s wine regions & introduces you to the wines he loves. Oz reveals how he tastes wine & how you can enjoy wine whatever the budget. He covers with equal care & attention all categories of wine, from the blue-chip to the most affordable. With Red & White, you are in the hands of the best-informed & the most inspirational guide, & you will pick up, without even trying, a wealth of knowledge that Oz is bursting to share with you. With climate change & the move to organic & sustainable practices, wine is evolving faster than ever before. & hundreds of local grape varieties, until recently facing extinction, are also being rediscovered. There have never been so many brilliant & original wines. To discover them, all you need is a glass in your h&, a sense of adventure, & Oz`s Red & White as your companion & inspiration! ...

Pick a place. Choose a creature. Discover its story & the danger it faces. Then find out how to help it survive. 15 wild & wonderful creatures, all on the IUCN Red List, need our help
- this important book is interactive, engaging & informative, & will inspire children to save their planet! Red Alert! is inspired & endorsed by the ` Red List` database maintained by International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Currently the list

Includes:: over 70, 000 species known to be at risk, but it grows larger all the time.” Absolutely beautiful & perfectly targeted for its audience. We are delighted to be involved.”
- Dr Craig Hilton-Taylor, Head of Red List Unit, IUCNThe IUCN Red List is supported by Sir David Attenborough.



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The war against the Shining Path is over. Yet when a charred & mutilated body is discovered during Carnival, the people of the small town of Ayacucho understand that death has once more returned to their l&. Only now the terror emanates not from the government death squads, nor from the guerrillas in the mountains, but from a single source. A serial murderer. & now everyone is afraid. Everyone is a suspect. ...