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Charles Portis is now recognized as a singular American genius, a writer whose deadpan style, picaresque plots, and unforgettable characters have drawn a passionate following among readers and writers. 'His fiction,' Roy Blount Jr. has said, 'is the funniest I know.' Library of America now presents the definitive Portis collection, featuring all five of his novels--Norwood (1966), True Grit (1968), The Dog of the South (1979), Masters of Atlantis (1985), and Gringos (1991)--and his collected stories, including the imaginary travelogue 'Nights Can Turn Cool in Viborra' and the haunting 'I Don't Talk Service No More,' set in a psychiatric facility. A selection of Portis's nonfiction highlights his journalism from the civil rights movement, his coverage of the Nashville music scene in the 1960s, and the beguiling family memoir 'Combinations of Jacksons. Twice adapted as a film, first in a version starring John Wayne and then by the Coen Brothers, True Grit is a wonder of novelistic perfection, told in the unforgettable voice of 14-year-old Mattie Ross as she sets out to avenge her murdered father in a quest that brings her out of her native Arkansas and into the wilds of the Choctaw Nation of the 1870s. One of the great literary Westerns, it is also a novel that has invited comparison with The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Portis’s deadpan debut novel Norwood (1966) is, like True Grit, the story of a quest, though here the stakes are far lower: an auto mechanic from Texas embarks on a madcap journey to New York City to try and recover $70 owed to him from an Army buddy. A book that according to Roy Blount Jr. 'no one should die without having read,' The Dog of the South (1979) is yet a third saga of pursuit, this time all the way to Central America. Ray Midge is on the road looking for the man who has run off with his car (and of somewhat less interest to him, his wife). Masters of Atlantis (1985) conjures the fictional cult of Gnomonism and takes an uproarious plunge into the dark heart of conspiratorial thinking and schismatic in-fighting. Gringos (1991), set in Mexico, follows an expatriate ex-Marine in his search to find a UFO hunter gone missing in the Yucatan, amid a supporting cast of archaeologists, drug-addled hippie millenarians, and the son of the 'bravest dog in all Mexico.' A generous gathering of the nonfiction reveals Portis’s skills as a reporter, above all in his coverage of the Civil Rights Movement; his appreciation of Arkansas history and landscape, as in 'The Forgotten River'; and his poignancy as a family memoirist, on display in his recollection 'Combinations of Jacksons.

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Wie in de negentiende eeuw van Nederland naar Nederlands-Indië wilde voer mee op een zeilend koopvaardijschip. De reis rond Kaap de Goede Hoop duurde enkele maanden en was gevaarlijk en oncomfortabel. Dat veranderde in 1869 toen het Suezkanaal werd geopend en geriefelijke stoomschepen passagiers in enkele weken naar de Oost brachten.De 27-jarige Arnold Hogerwaard behoorde tot de laatste lichtingen Indischgasten die de oversteek op de ouderwetse manier maakte. Tijdens zijn vier maanden durende reis in 1862 hield hij een journaal bij. Daarin deed hij, op humoristische wijze en met oog voor detail, verslag van zijn belevenissen, zijn medepassagiers en het dagelijks leven aan boord. Hij illustreerde zijn journaal met charmante tekeningen. Er zijn de nodige scheepsjournalen uit de negentiende eeuw bewaard gebleven. Verreweg de meeste daarvan zijn echter geschreven door kapiteins en stuurlieden en bevatten hoofdzakelijk nautisch-technische informatie. Hogerwaards journaal is een van de weinige bewaard gebleven journaals die zijn geschreven door een passagier en het dagelijks leven aan boord beschrijven. Dit boek bevat de nog niet eerder gepubliceerde volledige tekst en de tekeningen van Hogerwaards opmerkelijke journaal.Uitgebreid historisch onderzoek maakte het mogelijk om de reis van Hogerwaard nauwgezet te reconstrueren. De begeleidende hoofdstukken vertellen wie Hogerwaard, zijn medepassagiers en de kapitein van het schip waren en hoe het hen na aankomst op Java verging. Ook de geschiedenis van de rederij en het schip, de lading en de bemanningsleden komen voor het voetlicht. Het dagboek en de begeleidende hoofdstukken bieden zo een unieke inkijk in passagiersreizen naar Nederlands-Indië rond het midden van de negentiende eeuw en daarmee in een minder bekend aspect van de Nederlandse koloniale geschiedenis. Deze uitgave is tot stand gekomen met financiële ondersteuning van de Samenwerkende Maritieme Fondsen. h2. English abstractTravel from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth century was by merchant sailing ship and took several months. The journey around the Cape of Good Hope was dangerous and uncomfortable. That changed in 1869 with the opening of the Suez Canal Steamships specially fitted out for passengers made the journey to the East in only a matter of weeks.The 27 year old Arnold Hogerwaard belonged to the last generation of travellers who made the passage to the Dutch East Indies the old-fashioned way. During his four-month journey in 1862, he kept a journal. Herein, he reported, in a humorous manner and with an eye for detail, on his experiences, his fellow passengers and daily life on board. He illustrated his journal with delightful drawings.Quite a number of ship's logs from the nineteenth century have survived. However, most are written by captains and officers and mainly contain nautical-technical information. Hogerwaard's journal is one of the few preserved ones written by a passenger with a description of daily life on board. This book contains the previously unpublished full text and drawings of Hogerwaard's remarkable journal.Extensive historical research made it possible to accurately reconstruct Hogerwaard's journey. The accompanying chapters explain who Hogerwaard, his fellow passengers and the captain of the ship were and how their lives continued after arriving in Java. The history of the shipping company and the ship, the cargo and the crew members are also highlighted. The journal and accompanying chapters thus offer a unique insight into passenger journeys to the Dutch East Indies around the mid-nineteenth century and into a lesser-known aspect of Dutch colonial history.

Voyages and travels. --- Sailing ships. --- Voyages and travels --- Sailing ships

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Planetary Exploration Horizon 2061: A Long-Term Perspective for Planetary Exploration synthesizes all the material elaborated and discussed during three workshops devoted to the Horizon 2061 foresight exercise. Sections cover the science of planetary systems, space missions to solar system objects, technologies for exploration, and infrastructures and services to support the missions and to maximize their science return. The editors follow the path of the implementation of a planetary mission, from the needed support in terms of navigation and communication, through the handling of samples returned to Earth, to the development of more permanent infrastructures for scientific human outposts on the Moon and Mars.

Interplanetary voyages --- Planets --- Exploration --- Space travel --- Voyages, Interplanetary --- Astronautics --- Rockets (Aeronautics) --- Space flight --- Interplanetary voyages. --- Exploration. --- Forecasting.

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From the continental inland of green valleys and plum orchards to the austere, skeletal coast, Tony Fabijančić captures Yugoslavia and Croatia in this moving memoir about his journey of discovery, freedom, beauty, and love.

Croatia --- Travel --- Fabijančić, Tony, --- Voyages

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Présenté comme un récit de pèlerinage en Terre sainte suivi d’un voyage en Orient, le Livre de Mandeville (1356) est une habile compilation d’ouvrages récents, écrits par des voyageurs bien informés (Guillaume de Boldensele, Odoric de Pordenone, Hayton). Toutefois, enhardi par les réflexions des savants de son époque sur la sphéricité de la terre, notre Jules Verne médiéval conduit son narrateur à s’aventurer jusqu’aux terres « par-delà », dans l’intention de lui faire accomplir le premier tour du monde. Dans cet espace encore inexploré, on croise, à côté des êtres fabuleux légués par la tradition, aussi bien Alexandre que le Prêtre Jean. L’auteur marie avec dextérité gravité et fantaisie, science et folklore, ancien et nouveau. Grâce à cette association entre transmission d’un savoir géographique, considérations sur la diversité des religions et des coutumes et anecdotes plaisantes, le Livre n’a cessé de captiver un public nombreux et varié, comme l’attestent les 250 manuscrits qui nous sont parvenus, écrits dans les diverses langues de l’Europe. Le choix de la version contenue dans le célèbre Livre des merveilles (v. 1403) permet en outre d’évoquer les splendides miniatures qui illustrent le texte.

Voyages imaginaires --- Récits de voyages. --- Mandeville, Jean de, --- Critique et interprétation.