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Climatic influences on the mortality of sheep during long-distance sea transport

Animal, 2019
Research on the causes of sheep death in sea voyages from Australia to the Middle East is limited, in particular little is known about the influence of climatic factors. Mortality data from 417 shipments of sheep exported over an 11-year period (November
Y. Zhang, C.J.C. Phillips
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La dive bouteille: voyages, alcools et remèdes dans les deux hémisphères XVIe-XXe siècle

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2001
Grâce à l'analyse de la pratique médicale en France (Bretagne), au Canada et au Brésil, on s'aperçoit que l'antique tradition de consommer du vin en tant que remède est présente dans le cadre de paradigmes scientifiques distincts et d'aires culturelles ...
Goubert Jean-Pierre
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Quêtes, enquêtes et conquêtes : Les voyages des Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia de Leopardi

Italies, 1997
La communication, présentée à un colloque sue le voyage, se détourne du contenu politique des Paralipomeni (que nous avons ailleurs envisagé) pour privilégier une lecture symbolique du poème.
Perle Abbrugiati
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American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective

Southern Spaces, 2009
Dr. David Brion Davis discusses American and British Slave Trade Abolition as the keynote speaker at an Emory University conference, "Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database and the Bicentennial of the End of the Slave Trade, 1808-2008," on ...
David Brion Davis
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Deux voyages d’hiver

Cahiers de Narratologie, 2011
For an artist, the link between life and work is never a simple cause-effect relationship. The loving pain can be considered as the source of Schubert's Winterreise and of the Brahms Alto Rhapsody as well (the latter being based also upon a poem by ...
Etienne Barilier
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L’AUTRE COMME « PRÉTEXTE » DANS LE GENRE VIATIQUE : LE CAS DE BUTUA ET DE TAMOÉ DANS ALINE ET VALCOUR DE SADE [PDF]

Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Romanice, 2011
Le genre viatique qui naît au siècle des Lumières, est un aboutissant de ce qui a été réalisé aux siècles précédents en termes de progrès scientifiques notamment. C’est dans ce prolongement-là qu’il convient de placer les voyages au XVIIIe siècle.
Jean-Claude NOËL
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Barthes's Imaginary Voyages

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1981
Reading L 'Empire des signes and Alors la Chine as points of departure, the article explores a network of reciprocal images of the text as voyage and the voyage as text, with Barthes as a self-styled, disinherited ethnographer/traveler.
Lynn A. Higgins
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Dutch-Asiatic shipping in the 17th and 18th centuries

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 1988
J.R. Bruijn, F.S. Gaastra, I. Schöffer, Dutch-Asiatic shipping in the 17th and 18th centuries, I, Introductory volume J.R. Bruijn, F.S. Gaastra, I.
F.J.A. Broeze
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Heart of Darkness and the fear of going native

Ilha do Desterro, 2012
    This article studies Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness (1899-1902) within the context of Imperial Gothic. It examines the darkness behind Empire and will highlight late-Victorian fears concerning Otherness and degeneration.
Anna Reid
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A Tale of Two Travellers in King Alfred’s Court

Medievalista
Considering just the English medieval case, it seems reasonable to assume that some sorts or forms of travel writing, literary or otherwise, must have existed before such canonical texts as The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, the anonymous The Land of ...
Miguel Alarcão
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