Link to the handout in class Link to background on Strabo’s Geography Link to People Of Tracota, And Cynocephales, In ‘The Travels Of Sir John Mandeville’ Link to Purchas his Pilgrimage Or Relations of the World List of travels: Jean de Léry (1536-1613) Histoire d’un voyage faict en terre de Brésil Guillaume Postel [1510-1581], De […]
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I had walked from Herat to Kabul that winter
Rory Stewart, COOL UNDER FIRE, INTELLGENT LIFE magazine, September/October 2011 And yet it is not a depressing place. I first saw it at the beginning of 2002. I had walked from Herat to Kabul that winter. I had seen hundreds of pickaxe-wielding villagers, directed by Pakistani traders, uncovering, looting and destroying the ancient city of […]
Lecture
Lecture-cum-Seminar series of the project “Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship”. The complete schedule can be viewed at https://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/fileadmin/pdf/LcS-winter2011-12.pdf We would like to invite you to the first lecture and seminar in this series: BODHISATTVA KAR Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta / Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam “EMPIRE AND ETYMONS: THE PHILOLOGICAL […]
Greatest Victorian Explorer
John Speke, the greatest Victorian explorer? by William Boyd, in TLS, 5 Oct 2011 Burton, Speke, Livingstone, Stanley and Baker were all notable outsiders, driven by their own egos, demons and motives. And Africa acted as a potent catalyst. Solitude, strangeness, danger and the lure of great fame and wealth (not to be forgotten) propelled […]
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