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The Long Road: An Analysis of the 1557 Book of Mirrors by Seydi Ali Reis
, 2012 In 1552, Piri Reis was relieved from the Admiralty of the Ottoman Imperial Navy. Seydi Ali Reis was appointed to replace him and his assignment was to return fifteen galleys from Basra to Egypt. This should have been a relatively short journey.
Weiss, Julian N.
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Presenting Pompeii: Reconciling Relationships between Configuration and Conservation [PDF]
, 2013 Mark Twain’s idealized testimonial in his travelogue Innocents Abroad is not a revolutionary phenomenon. Pompeii has long been considered a city with breathtaking preservation, but the extent of preservation has been a recent source of controversy.
Sheldon, Karilyn
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Diegesis: Interdisziplinäres E-Journal für Erzählforschung, 2015 Travelogues involve different truth claims, depending on whether their authors attempt on the one hand to convey received knowledge about entities and places, or on the other hand, present accounts of the traveler character’s own experiences.
Johannes Stephan
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Description of Paths in the Travelogues of the Middle and Early Modern Age
Ars & Humanitas, 2018 Based on the assumption that space is not objectively given and that its construction depends on the individual’s perception, the author analyses two literary works, namely a late medieval pilgrimage travelogue by Konrad Grünemberg, and an educational ...
Marija Javor Briški
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Images of Trebizond and the Pontos in Contemporary Literature in English with a Gothic Conclusion [PDF]
, 2016 A Byzantinist specializing in the history of the Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461), the author presents four books of different genres written in English and devoted to the medieval state on the south coast of the Black Sea. The most spectacular of them is
Dąbrowska, Małgorzata
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TRAVEL WATTLE OF LANDSCAPES, ANTIQUITY AND SPIRITUAL AURA OF SPACE IN TRAVELOGUES BY ZLATKO TOMIČIĆ [PDF]
Hum, 2010 The paper valorizes for the first time a completely unexplored literary opus of published travelogue collections of prominent contemporary Croatian writer Zlatko Tomičić (Zagreb, 1930. – Zagreb, 2008.).
Hrvojka Mihanović-Salopek
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Inner Otherness as a Source of Fear: Elements of Horror in Balkan Travelogues
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 Travel fiction has created numerous Others, assigning them an ontologically unstable status, while the traditional travelogue spread a fear of the dark interior of Europe, presenting images of daily political strife, assassinations, wars and uprisings ...
Sanja Lazarević-Radak
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ReligionsFrom the early centuries of Muslim history, one of the most popular pilgrimage routes for the Andalusian and Maghribī pilgrims involved traveling through Alexandria to Cairo, then onward to Upper Egypt, followed by a sea journey to Jidda and finally ...
Muhammet Enes Midilli
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Weight of a light-hearted travelogue (Terézia Vansová: Mrs Georgiadesová on her travels) [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2011 The travelogue „Mrs Georgiadesová on her travels“ written by Theresa Vansová is an original record of some Slovak patriots‘ visit to the Panslavic Exhibition in Prague held in 1895.
Marcela Mikulová
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Haunting Transcendentalist Landscapes: EcoGothic Politics in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes [PDF]
, 2016 In this essay, the reminiscences of Margaret Fuller, feminist activist and member of the American Transcendentalist movement, from her journey to the Great Lakes region, entitled Summer on the Lakes (1844), are considered in the light of EcoGothic ...
Elbert, Monika
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