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  • Peak Pursuits

    The Emergence of Mountaineering in the Nineteenth Century

    by Caroline Schaumann ...
    An interdisciplinary cultural history of exploration and mountaineering in the nineteenth centuryEuropean forays to mountain summits began in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with the search for plants and minerals and the study of geology and glaciers. Yet scientists were soon captivated by the enterprise of climbing itself, enthralled with the views and the prospect of ... Read more

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  • Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture

    by Aaron S. Allen, Martin Bemmann, Benjamin Bühler, Nils Büttner, Jakob Christoph Heller, Richard Hölzl, Matthias Hurst, Werner Konold, Anke Kramer, Angelika Krebs, Wolfgang Lueckel, Kate Rigby, Caroline Schaumann, Jens Soentgen, Silvio Vietta, François Walter, Berbeli Wanning, Udo Weilacher, Hannes Bergthaller, Axel Goodbody, Timo Müller, Heather I. Sullivan ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    The volume offers a survey of the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought. As the field of ecocritical theory and practice is rapidly expanding towards transnational and global dimensions, it seems nevertheless necessary to consider the distinct manifestations of ecological thought in various cultures. In this sense, the volume demonstrates in twenty ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Caroline Schaumann, Heather I. Sullivan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature and film to a broader audience. This volume contextualizes the broad-ranging topics and authors in terms of the Anthropocene, beginning with Goethe and the Romantics and extending into twenty-first ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

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  • Wanderlust

    A History of Walking

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's RosesDrawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking ... Read more

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  • How to Talk About Places You've Never Been

    On the Importance of Armchair Travel

    by Pierre Bayard ...
    Translated by Michele Hutchison ...
    Written in the irreverent style that made How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read a critical and commercial success, Pierre Bayard takes readers on a trip around the world, giving us essential guidance on how to talk about all those fantastic places we've never been. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Places You've Never Been will delight and inform armchair globetrotters ... Read more

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  • The Human Shore

    Seacoasts in History

    by John R. Gillis ...
    Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun to take on new and potentially catastrophic dimensions. The latest generation of coastal dwellers lives largely in ignorance of the history of those ... Read more

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  • The Book of Unconformities

    Speculations on Lost Time

    by Hugh Raffles ...
    From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present.Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing ... Read more

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  • Alexander von Humboldt

    A Concise Biography

    by Andreas W. Daum ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    An engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von HumboldtIn this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeuvre of Alexander von Humboldt (1769―1859). A Prussian nobleman born into the age of European Enlightenment, Humboldt was a contemporary of Napoleon, Simón Bolívar, and Charles Darwin. As a naturalist and scholar ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing

    Edited by Peter Hulme, Tim Youngs ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies to offer a broad and vibrant introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. This comprehensive introduction to the subject features specially commissioned contributions, including six essays surveying the period's travel writing; a further six ... Read more

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  • The Triumph of Human Empire

    Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World

    by Rosalind Williams ...
    In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek "the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Bacon's make-believe ... Read more

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  • Sad Topographies

    by Damien Rudd ...
    Sad Topographies is an illustrated guide for the melancholic among us.Dispirited travellers rejoice as Damien Rudd journeys across continents in search of the world’s most joyless place names and their fascinating etymologies.Behind each lugubrious place name exists a story, a richly interwoven narrative of mythology, history, landscape, misadventure and tragedy. From Disappointment Island in the ... Read more

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