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L'impossible retour : la figure du Heimkehrer dans les lettres et les arts allemands et scandinaves du XXe siècle
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ISBN: 2729500383 9782729500382 Year: 1987 Volume: 1987(1)

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Het Italië-gevoel: Nederlandse schrijvers over Italië
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ISBN: 9028415564 9789028415560 Year: 1989 Publisher: Amsterdam Wereldbibliotheek


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Nine years in Nipon : sketches of Japanese life and manners
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ISBN: 1316155811 1108081622 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Scottish doctor Henry Faulds (1843-1930) is best remembered for his role in the history of fingerprinting. His strong religious faith had first led him to missionary work in India and then, from 1874, in Japan. He worked there as a surgeon in the mission hospital at Tsukiji, near Tokyo, where he also established a medical school and a school for the blind. It was his discovery of the impressions of thumbprints on ancient Japanese pottery which led to his development of a fingerprinting system and his championing of it as a forensic tool. The present work, part-travelogue, part-journal, was first published in 1885. It remains an engaging account of Japanese life, customs, geography and natural history, interwoven with discussions of topics such as education, language, and the future of the country. There are characterful line drawings throughout. Faulds' Dactylography (1912) is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

Guide des Russes en France
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ISBN: 2705802010 Year: 1990 Publisher: Paris Horay


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Writing travel in Central Asian history
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ISBN: 0253011353 0253011485 9780253011480 1306196507 9781306196505 9780253011343 0253011345 9780253011350 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bloomington

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For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs. The representations of the region brought home to China and Japan, India and Persia, Russia and Great Britain, provide valuable evidence that helps map earlier periods of globalization and cultural interaction.

Living with tourism
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ISBN: 1280115742 9786610115747 0203987675 9780203987674 9780415298568 0415298563 0415298563 9781134426768 1134426763 9781134426713 1134426712 9781134426751 1134426755 9781138008670 1138008672 9781280115745 6610115745 Year: 2003 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Redefining 'community' and considering the effects tourism has on culture, this detailed book delivers an ethnographic account of both the toured and touring community in Göreme, central Turkey. Hazel Tucker presents an in-depth analysis of the interactions between tourists, the local community and place. She demonstrates the implications that community ownership and participation in tourism have for the politics of representation and identity, and also for the nature of the tourist experience. Dealing with contentious theoretical issues related to globalization and culture, Tuck


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In search of legitimacy : how outsiders become part of an Afro-Brazilian tradition
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ISBN: 9781785330636 1785330632 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York Oxford Berghahn Books


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The British on Holiday
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ISBN: 1845411838 9786613147509 1283147505 1845411846 184541182X 9781845411848 9781845412128 1845412125 9781845411831 9781845411824 9781283147507 6613147508 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bristol, UK Blue Ridge Summit, PA

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This book is the only in-depth ethnographic study of British charter tourists. It is based on several months of participant observation of British charter tourists on holiday in Palmanova and Magaluf on the Mediterranean Island of Mallorca. With a focus on space, the body, and food and drink practices, the book explores the experiential nature of touristic practice which provides insight into constructions, understandings and knowledge of the self in relation to national, regional, class, and gender identities. These issues in turn highlight elements of power and control which are mainly articulated through the attempts to manipulate tourists' consumption practices by the mediators of tourists' experiences.

Understanding western tourists in developing countries
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ISBN: 9781845931957 1845931955 9786610857968 128085796X 1845931963 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub.,

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Developing countries are increasingly reliant on tourism to generate income. To do this successfully, it is critical for them to have an understanding of the tourist phenomenon. This book provides a clear overview of 'West-South' tourism, reviewing and evaluating both theoretical perspectives as well as empirical studies of organized tours, backpackers, independent tourists and volunteer tourism. It concludes by outlining how developing countries can plan to attract the right kind of tourists.

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