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Cargando... Traveling in Place: A History of Armchair Travelpor Bernd Stiegler
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Interesting source material, but read like a thesis, causing my eyes to glaze over and my head to ache. ( ) An excellent survey and analysis of literature on travelling without leaving your home, your house or your room. Sharpen your powers of observation and your eyes and you will see and understand so much more than travelling the world. Includes really good and interesting bibliographies at the end of each chapter. There are excellent snippets within the book such as this quote by Alphonse Karr: 'Travelers', he complains, 'are strange beings who go to great distances, and at great expense, to see new things, without having taken the trouble to look at their feet or over their heads, where as many extraordinary and unknown things are passing as they can possibly desire to know'. Quoted in Bernd Stiegler, pages 72-73, and page 86: Objects are more than just possessions; they are women and children, history and desire, memories and happiness'. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn't travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explored and experienced a different place or time without ever leaving her seat. No passport, no currency, no security screening required--the luxury of armchair travel is accessible to us all. In Traveling in Place, Bernd Stiegler celebrates this convenient, magical means of transport in all its many forms. Like the best guidebooks, Traveling in Place is more interested in the idea of travel as a state of mind than as a physical activity, and Stiegler reflects on the different ways that traveling at home have manifested themselves in the modern era, from literature and film to the virtual possibilities of the Internet, blogs, and contemporary art." -- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)809.9332Literature By Topic History, description and criticism of more than two literatures By topic Other aspects Specific themes and subjects Travel and writing about placesClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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