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"The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain, published in 1869, which humorously chronicles what Twain called his 'Great Pleasure Excursion' on board the chartered vessel Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City), through Europe and the Holy Land, with a group of American travelers in 1867." --
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Lady Anne Isabella Noel Blunt (1837-1917) es sin duda una mujer fascinante que parece más pronto un personaje de novela de Virginia Wolf que no un personaje real. Nieta de Lord Byron, fue la primera mujer que visitó Hâ'il en Nayd. Participó del entusiasmo que su marido, el poeta Wilfrid Scawen Blunt sentía por la causa musulmana y le acompañó desde principios de diciembre de 1878 a finales de febrero de 1879 tal como nos cuenta en su 'Viaje...
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The beautifully written travel memoir of a Western woman's journey in Iran.
Honeymoon in Purdah is a book of sketches gathered over the course of one woman's journey in Iran. Through her, we meet the ordinary and extraordinary people of Iran--men and women whose lives extend beyond Western news stories of kidnappings, terrorism, and Islamic fundamentalism. Peppered with accounts of Iran's Islamic Revolution and political analyses of the country,...
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In 1919, the famous British pundit and polymath traveled to Palestine to write this philosophical travelogue. He fell in love with Jerusalem, and in the book is quite accepting of the religious and cultural values of the people inhabiting the area. Throughout these controversial passages, he explores the differences between the three major religions. Even more interesting is his analysis of conflicts between Jews and Muslims, which is now considered...
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For thousands of years travellers wandered to, and spread out through, Egypt and the Near East, seeking trade, adventure and knowledge. For centuries travellers to - and from - the Near East carried knowledge with them and then carried home the new knowledge acquired in the region. And knowledge, as the Arabic proverb states, is light. The travels which are the subjects of these nine papers continue to represent the work of The Association for the...
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Would you travel to Iran?
In 2010, a schoolteacher from Minneapolis accepted an invitation from an Iranian friend to travel to the Islamic Republic of Iran, a place labeled "evil" by the US government. "Iran is a snake with many heads," his friend had told him on the night they first met. "The mask is there, but no one knows what is going on."
From a coffee shop in Minneapolis to tea houses lined with Persian rugs, follow one American's personal...
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Relentlessly entertaining"-Michelle Green, The New York Times
Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni and Sophia Poole, spoke Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of their experiences as observers of an exotic culture, with special access to some places no...
8) Cairo's Street Stories: Exploring the City's Statues, Squares, Bridges, Garden, and Sidewalk Cafes
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In 1872, Ismail Pasha, the khedive of Egypt, was the first to adopt the European custom of positioning heroic statues on public display as a symbolic message of the continuing authority of the ruling Muhammad Ali dynasty to which he belonged, but it was not until the early twentieth century and the determination of sculptor Mahmoud Mukhtar that such public art gained general acceptance, and today statues stand, ride, or sit in the streets, squares,...
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The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814, ending the War of 1812, allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Medical students went to Paris, artists to Rome, academics to Göttingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two eighteenth-century travelers, this book then turns to the 25-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities, among...
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In the absence of horses, saddle the dogs. This Arab proverb, suggesting the uncompromising determination of nomads to keep moving, whatever the obstacles, epitomizes also the travelling ethos of many early visitors to the 'exotic East'. The journeys examined here are linked by the light they shed on the experience of travel in Egypt, Greece and the Ottoman Balkans, and the Near East from the 17th to the early 20th century not so much what was seen...
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Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d'abord les comprendre.
Les Kurdes sont loups et bergers. Leur sens de l'hospitalité n'a d'égal que leur caractère de montagnards trop souvent contraints par l'histoire de lutter pour leur liberté.
Redoutable défi, donc, que ce petit livre publié à l'heure o le Kurdistan, dans l'ombre de la guerre qui ensanglante la Syrie et l'Irak, s'efforce d'offrir un destin à ce peuple éclaté entre plusieurs...
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A collection of letters in a small painted box passed down through three generations of a London family is the starting point for a vivid account of a three-month journey up and down the Nile in a bygone age. The letters, like a time capsule, bring to life a lost world of Edwardian travel and social mores, of Egypt on the brink of the modern age, of the great figures of Egyptology, of aristocrats and archaeologists. In 1907/08 Ferdinand Platt (known...
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Régis Koetschet, ambassadeur de France à Kaboul de 2005 à 2008, tient dans la revue Les Nouvelles d'Afghanistan une rubrique intitulée « Un thé vert avec ». Des personnalités diverses – écrivains, archéologues, photographes, diplomates, mais aussi French doctors et réfugiés afghans – y racontent, avec sensibilité et érudition, « leur » Afghanistan. Ils se révèlent de passionnants « passeurs », dont les réflexions et les émotions...
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Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d'abord les comprendre.
L'Iran est un jardin que les mots font fleurir. Sous les coupoles des mosquées d'Ispahan et des mausolées de Chirâz, une somme de fascinantes contradictions persanes est à l'œuvre.
Les Iraniens aiment les sciences et sont superstitieux. Ils sont mystiques et amoureux des plaisirs plus terrestres. L'Iran des poètes est celui du pardon. Mais l'Iran des juges islamiques condamne...
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Part historical evocation, part travelogue, and part personal quest, An Unexpected Light is the account of Elliot's journey through Afghanistan, a country considered off-limits to travelers for twenty years. Aware of the risks involved, but determined to explore what he could of the Afghan people and culture, Elliot leaves the relative security of Kabul. He travels by foot and on horseback, and hitches rides on trucks that eventually lead him into...
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"Kroeker is a Mennonite with a motorcycle. When his seemingly unflinching faith in a Christian worldview begins to shift, Kroeker hops on his bike to seek answers from another perspective. After shipping his ride to Europe, Kroeker discovers that the machine wobbles back and forth worse than his own opinions about spirituality. Still, he carries on, oscillating through Europe--Germany, Austria, Croatia, Albania--and into the Middle East--Turkey, Syria,...
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A fascinating journey through the cultural and artistic landscape of Iran, both past and present, by the New York Times bestselling author of An Unexpected Light
In our current climate of war and suspicion, Iran is depicted as the "next" rogue nation that America and the world must "deal with." But, the rhetoric about nuclear weapons and jihad obscures the real Iran: an ancient nation and culture, both sophisticated and isolated, which still exists...
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Extrait: "« Faites voille, de par Dieu!» criait Joinville à ses « notonniers » en s'embarquant sur la nef qui devait le porter en terre sainte. — Je jetterais volontiers le même cri aux matelots de la Minerva, grand bateau du Lloyd autrichien à bord duquel nous prenons place, mon ami d'A... et moi; la vapeur a remplacé les vieilles voiles qui nous enlevaient furtivement et sans secousses aux lieux accoutumés."
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In 2016, desperate for a drastic change, Bex Band decided to walk the length of Israel with her husband: a 1000km trek including a dangerous crossing through the vast Negev desert. She'd never done anything like it before and the experience changed her life, building back her confidence and self-esteem. “Three Stripes South” tells the story of this transformative adventure-battling heat, exhaustion, self-doubt and prejudice-and the new life Bex...
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L'obscurité est retombée sur le pays des seigneurs d'Aryana. La brutalité et l'ordre implacables des taleban sont désormais le lot quotidien des Afghans et surtout des Afghanes. Et pourtant ! Comment ne pas garder au cœur l'émotion profonde que l'Afghanistan suscite chez tous ceux qui découvrent ses paysages et ses lumières uniques. C'est ce pays de culture, de fierté et de traditions aujourd'hui confisqué par le fanatisme religieux que...
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