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The Voyager's Sublime: Kodachrome and Pacific Tourism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This chapter outlines the vast rise in tourist numbers on the seas coincided with the arrival of simpler, hands-on means for capturing the journey's 'fascinating sights' and 'colorful peoples' in moving images, leaving behind an unprecedented visual ...
Geiger, Jeffrey
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The interpretive approach to religious education and the development of a community of practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The practitioners and researchers whose work is reported in this book have come together as a community of practice around particular principles and methods of education and research.
Jackson, Robert
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European Encounters with Dracunculiasis in the Northern Bank of the Persian Gulf: A Perspective from Travelogues of the Safavid and Qajar Eras [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Research on History of Medicine
“Dracunculus medinensis” or “Guinea worm” disease is transmitted to humans through drinking contaminated water, leading to symptoms such as ague, muscular weakness, and infection. This disease is endemic to arid and warm regions with minimal rainfall and
Javad Mousavi Dalini   +2 more
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Jabuka Island in the notes of Adriatic Sea travelers from 14th to 17th century – name and shape

open access: yesGeoadria, 2015
By surface area Jabuka is one of the smallest islands in the Adriatic Sea. It was noted for the first time in nautical charts at the beginning of the 14th century, and due to its recognizable shape mapped by almost all portolan and nautical chart makers.
Krešimir Kužić
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“OTHERNESS” DEPICTED IN TRAVELOGUES: MACEDONIA IN GERMAN-LANGUAGE TRAVELOGUES

open access: yesSCIENCE International Journal
In the German-language travelogues, the term Macedonia is mostly used almost exclusively as a geographical designation. The reasons for this lie in the author's perception, which is basically burdened by his own mission, cultural background and already (subtly) imposed stereotypes built on the basis of previous knowledge (information that is also ...
openaire   +1 more source

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