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'Attempts to get to the heart of the traveller's experience. The result is the emergence of an ... increasingly involving story.' – New Welsh Review When Richard Collins was diagnosed with a progressive incurable disease in 2006 he decided to see as much of the world as he could while his condition allowed. The result is The Road to Zagora, a singular travel book which takes in India, Nepal, Turkey, Morocco, Peru, Equador and Wales. 'Mr Parkinson', as Collins refers to his condition, informs the narrative. As inveterate walkers Collins and his partner Flic decided to continue to travel 'close to the land' post diagnosis, leaving the tourist trails and visiting places of extremes: the Himal...
Sometime like 1978, somewhere like Europe, Oliver and Daniel are driving towards and away from home on a road trip to places that never were. Thrown together by circumstance, these two men with very different purposes and meanings to their lives find themselves traveling for a while in the same direction. This account is exhilarating, comic, tender, crazy, and ultimately moving as it describes two journeys towards love.
Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.
The classic foraging guide to over 200 types of food that can be gathered and picked in the wild, Food for Free returns in its 40th year as a sumptuous, beautifully illustrated and fully updated anniversary edition.
This book explores television's role in fostering European cultural identity and the extent to which European public service broadcasters were able to meet the challenges posed by the introduction of new communication technologies.
In the years leading up to the Civil War, southern evangelical denominations moved from the fringes to the mainstream of the American South. Scott Stephan argues that female Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians played a crucial role in this transformation. While other scholars have pursued studies of southern evangelicalism in the context of churches, meetinghouses, and revivals, Stephan looks at the domestic rituals over which southern women had increasing authority-from consecrating newborns to God's care to ushering dying kin through life's final stages. Laymen and clergymen alike celebrated the contributions of these pious women to the experience and expansion of evangelicalism across...
"These essays critically address ... the assumptions from which media analysts and communication scholars have customarily approached television."--Preface.
From the well-known to the never-before published, Haunted Barnsley documents a vast array of hauntings, spectres and ghost folklore from all over Barnsley and the surrounding area. The authors have personally investigated many of the haunted locations featured in the book, and share their first-hand experiences alongside the histories and myths. Including haunted local landmarks such as the Mill of Black Monks and the Monk Bretton Priory, and detailing the stories behind legendary spectres such as Jack in Irons, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in Barnsley's ghosts.