India Travel Tales
May 30
2010
2010
Holy Hannah! Hannah Georges Georges is a good place May 22 at Headquarters in support of their new album is a good thing.
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PMYT2A-00001 Photo Mugs The Roc, a fabulous legendary bird of great size and strength. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration…. |
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Sinbad studying with scholars in India Photo Mugs Sinbad the Sailor in the society of the learned Indians, from the Arabian Nights. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration …. |
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Samsara Luxury Resort & Camp – Two Superior Deluxe Villas Package for 4 – 2 Nights $449 Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. 60% off Includes: accommodations, taxes… |
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Mauiva AirCruise – All-American East Experience Package for 4 – 6 Nights $4250 Multi-Destination Tours. 23% off Includes: private plane travel, hotel accommodations, activities… |
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Mauiva AirCruise – Western Wonder Experience Package for 4 – 6 Nights $4006 Multi-Destination Tours. 39% off Includes: private plane travel, hotel accommodations, activities… |
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Dark Side of Memphis Tour $14.2 Explore the darker side of Memphis – named for the famed Egyptian City of the Dead – Hear the legends and tales of some of Beale Street’s most notorious haunts by professional guides on this walking history tour! |
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Expat: Women’s True Tales of Life Abroad $4.79 ItUs one thing to travel in a foreign country but itUs another thing altogether to move there. In these stories, several women tell how the realities of living abroad match up to the fantasy. In accounts on food shopping in China to child rearing in India to socializing in Ireland, these women give fascinating glimpses of what itUs really like to start over in a new country. |
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Fables of the East $48.39 Fables of the East is the first anthology to provide textual examples of representations of oriental cultures in the early modern period drawn from a variety of genres: travel writing, histories, and fiction. Organized according to genre in order to illustrate the diverse shapes the orientaltale adopted in the period, the extracts cover the popular sequence of oriental tales, the pseudo-oriental tale, travels and history, and letter fictions. Authors represented range from the familiar–Joseph Addison, Horace Walpole, Montesquieu, Oliver Goldsmith–to authors of great popularity intheir own time who have since faded in reputation such as James Ridley, Alexander Dow, and Eliza Haywood. The selection has been devised to call attention to the diversity in the ways that different oriental cultures are represented to English readers. Readers of this anthology will be able to identify a contrast between the luxury, excess, and sexuality associated with Islamic Turkey, Persia, andMughal India and the wisdom, restraint, and authority invested in Brahmin India and Confucian China. Fables of the East redraws the cultural map we have inherited of the eighteenth century, demonstrating contemporary interest in gentile and idolatrous religions, in Confucianism and Buddhismespecially, and that the construction of the Orient in the western imagination was not exclusively one of an Islamic Near and Middle East. Ros Ballster’s introduction addresses the importance of the idea of fable to traditions of narrative and representations of the East. Each text is accompanied by explanatory head and footnotes, also provided is a glossary of oriental terms and places that were familiarto the texts’eighteenth-century readers. |
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Marco Polo $27.9 In a life of ceaseless exploration, Marco Polo pushed out the borders of his narrow medieval world. Born in Venice in 1254, the young Marco Polo first met his father at age 15, when the elder Polo returned from a trading expedition to the East. The father’s tales of the court of the Kublai Khan in China ignited a lifelong passion for adventure in the son. The Polos set out for China in 1271, traveling through the Middle East, across the Gobi Desert, to Khanbaliq in China. The journey took four years. Kublai Khan took a great liking to Marco Polo, employing him as a spy throughout his vast empire. Marco traveled and observed the cultures of Sumatra, Sri Lanka, and India in this capacity. His notes later became one of the world’s great travel books, The Description of the World. |
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