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Travel writing --- Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

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A hilarious field guide to the world's most remarkable and unusual creatures: the English.Thanks to television documentaries by Bruce Parry and David Attenborough, we are better acquainted with the hunting rituals of the San bushmen and the mating habits of Papua New Guinean tribes than we are with the everyday lives of that most peculiar of species the English.In The English: A Field Guide', Sunday Times journalist Matt Rudd, sets out to uncover what makes us, the English, tick. He will examine us in our natural habitats, starting with the living room and moving out to the kitchen, the garden, the commuter train, the office, the motorway, the high street, the sports stadium, the pub, club, bingo hall, balti house, beach and ending up in the bedroom.Hilarious, warm-hearted and surprisingly enlightening, The English' shines a strong searchlight on us all.

National characteristics, English --- Travel writing --- Popular culture. --- England --- Civilization

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This volume explores the relationship between tourism and travel texts and contemporary society, and how each is shaped by the other. A multimodal analysis is used to consider a variety of texts including novels, brochures, blogs, websites, radio commercials, videos, postcards and authentic tourist pictures and their meaning-making dynamics within the tourism discourse. The book looks at the ways in which these different texts have influenced how tourists and travellers have been viewed over time and how we envision ourselves as tourists or travellers. It puts forward multimodal analysis as the best framework for exploring the semiotic potential of these texts. Including examples from the UK, Malta, Canada, New Zealand, India, Jamaica and South Africa, this volume will be useful for researchers and students in tourism studies, communication and media studies and applied linguistics.

Tourism --- Travel writing. --- Travel --- Authorship --- Social aspects. --- Travel writing --- Social aspects --- discourse. --- meaning-making. --- multimodal analysis. --- postcards. --- tourism and society. --- tourist brochures. --- tourist identity.

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Travelers' writings, European --- European literature --- Authors, European --- Travel writing --- Exoticism in literature --- Travel in literature --- History and criticism --- Travel --- History

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Does the way in which buildings are looked at, and made sense of, change over the course of time? How can we find out about this? By looking at a selection of travel writings spanning four centuries, Anne Hultzsch suggests that it is language, the description of architecture, which offers answers to such questions. The words authors use to transcribe what they see for the reader to re-imagine offer glimpses at modes of perception specific to one moment, place and person. Hultzsch constructs an intriguing patchwork of local and often fragmentary narratives discussing texts as diverse as the 17th-century diary of John Evelyn, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and an 1855 art guide by Swiss art historian Jacob Burckhardt. Further authors considered include 17th-century collector John Bargrave, 18th-century novelist Tobias Smollett, poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, critic John Ruskin as well as the 20th-century architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner.

Architecture --- architecture [discipline] --- architectural theory --- description [activity] --- visual perception --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Architecture and literature. --- Travel writing. --- History.