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Cruise tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors worldwide. This book is the first of its kind to provide in-depth insights into the emergence of mega-cruise tourism in destinations on the Arabian Peninsula and its impacts on local communities, their spaces, cultures, identities and tourist experiences.

Tourism --- Ocean travel --- Arabian Peninsula --- Description and travel.

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"The interior of Antarctica is an utterly pristine wilderness; a desolate landscape of ice, wind, and rock; a landscape so unfamiliar as to seem of another world. This place is known to only a handful of early explorers and the few scientists fortunate enough to have worked there. Edmund Stump is one of the lucky few. Having climbed, photographed, and studied more of the Transantarctic Mountains than any other person on Earth, this geologist is uniquely suited to offer this stunning visual tour of Antarctica. With stories of Stump's journeys and science, the book contains some 130 color photographs from his 40 years of work on the world's most isolated continent, all complemented by watercolors and sketches by scientific illustrator Marlene Hill Donnelly. Over three chapters-on the ice, the rock, and the wind-we meet snowy paths first followed during Antarctica's Heroic Age, climb the central spire of the Organ Pipe Peaks, peer into the crater of the volcanic Mt. Erebus, and traverse Liv Glacier on snowmobile, while avoiding fatal falls into hidden crevasses. Along the way, we see the beauty of granite, marble, and ice-cored moraines, meltwater ponds, lenticular clouds, icebergs and glaciers. All seems both permanent and precarious, connecting this otherworld to our fragile own"--

Antarctique --- Antarctique --- Antarctica --- Antarctica --- Voyages. --- Description and travel.

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"In 'Kijk daar, kijk! Passages door Brussel' keert Eric de Kuyper terug naar zijn geboortestad Brussel. Na jaren in Frankrijk, Nederland en Duitsland te hebben gewoond, kijkt hij opnieuw en met een frisse blik naar de stad waarin hij opgroeide. In dit grote werk wandelt De Kuyper door de wereldstad in eeuwige ontwikkeling Brussel. Hij vermengt zijn autobiografische verleden en heden zoals alleen hij dat kan, zijn proza ontstaat even organisch als een Brusselse straat. Eric de Kuyper ís Brussel: een mengeling van stijlen, opvattingen en talen. Hij bewijst dat Brussel oneindig vaak opnieuw kan worden beschreven, zonder dat iemand de stad definitief weet te vangen. De tachtigjarige De Kuyper beschrijft de tien keer zo oude hoofdstad met liefde, maar zonder zijn kritische vermogen te verliezen. 'De liefdeloosheid waarmee zovele woningen of bouwwerken behandeld worden doet mijn hart bloeden. En dan plots, een liefdevol detail.'"--

Dutch literature --- Kuyper, Eric de --- Travel --- Brussels (Belgium) --- Description and travel.

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In Hajj Travelogues: Texts and Contexts from the 12th Century until 1950 Richard van Leeuwen maps the corpus of hajj accounts from the Muslim world and Europe. The work outlines the main issues in a field of study which has largely been neglected. A large number of hajj travelogues are described as a textual type integrating religious discourse into the form of the journey. Special attention is given to their intertextual embedding in the broader discursive tradition of the hajj. Since the corpus is seen as dynamic and responsive to historical developments, the texts are situated in their historical context and the subsequent phases of globalisation. It is shown how in travelogues forms of religious subjectivity are constructed and expressed.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages --- History. --- Mecca (Saudi Arabia) --- Description and travel --- History and criticism.

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This book provides a well-researched, well-structured, interesting, and informative narrative depicting the little-known yet successful efforts of the Captain Arve Staxrud Norwegian Arctic Rescue Expedition of 1913 that searched for and saved members of the Lieutenant Herbert Schröder-Stranz German Arctic Expedition of 1912 in Spitsbergen (Svalbard). The book portrays the cooperative and strategic endeavors of the humans and animals involved in the Staxrud expedition who worked together to save human lives on the icy fjords and glaciers of the far north during an unseasonable time of year for exploratory expeditions. It examines and analyzes the unpreparedness and lack of training that resulted in the failure of the Schröder-Stranz expedition. It compares and contrasts concurrent rescue expeditions that failed, including the Kurt Wegener expedition and the Theodor Lerner expedition. It describes the crucial role of animals in both the Norwegian and German expeditions, as well as German interest and Norwegian activity in Spitsbergen leading up to the expeditions. And it reconstructs the interaction and organization of principal officers, overwintering experts, Norwegians, Sámi, draft reindeer teams, and experienced sledge dogs who made the Staxrud rescue mission a success and who created and enabled improved search and rescue capabilities for Spitsbergen and for the future of the Arctic archipelago.

Geography. --- Human geography. --- Cultural geography. --- History. --- Social and Cultural Geography. --- Arctic regions --- Description and travel.