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The Rough Guide to First-Time Europe
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The Rough Guide to First-Time Europe

This guidebook will help you plan the best possible trip to Europe, with tips on using your phone abroad and guidance on which websites, apps, and travel agencies to use to get the best deals and advice. You'll find insightful information on when to go and what not to miss, how to stay safe and — perhaps most important — how to get under the skin of a place and meet the locals in a natural way.
 
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Tags: Europe, under, important, perhaps, place
After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets
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After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets

They are nine women with much in common–all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood.
 
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Tags: personal, poetry, place, language, glimpse
The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel: The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
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The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel: The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel: The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel explores the themes of alienation and displacement in a genre of post-World War II novels that portrays the pursuit of an authentic travel experience in a culturally unfamiliar place. Levin explores two questions: why does travel to an "undiscovered" place—one imagined outside the bounds of modernity—remain an enduring preoccupation in western civilization; and how does the representation of adventure travel change in the era of mass culture, when global capitalism expands at a rapid pace.
 
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Tags: travel, place, Contemporary, explores, Travel, Novel, Anglophone
Doctor Who - The Trouble with Drax
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Doctor Who - The Trouble with Drax

This range of two-part audio dramas stars Tom Baker reprising his most popular role as the Fourth Doctor (from 1974 - 1981) with a number of his original TV companions. This fifth series reunites the Doctor with Romana (Lalla Ward), a fellow Time Lord for adventures across Time and Space! Altrazar. The temporal Atlantis, a place lost to time. Believed by many to be a myth, it has long been the perfect location for the rich and powerful to hide away their most dangerous secrets. Until now.
 
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Tags: Doctor, Atlantis, place, Believed, temporal
The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World
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The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the WorldThe Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World

The brave, wry, irresistible journey of a fiercely independent American woman who finds everything she ever wanted in the most unexpected place.
 
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Tags: unexpected, wanted, place, Shufu, World, Finding, finds, everything