Reclaiming travel / Ilan Stavans and Joshua Ellison.

Main entry:

Stavans, Ilan.

Title & Author:

Reclaiming travel / Ilan Stavans and Joshua Ellison.

Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2015]

Description:

155 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Restlessness -- Why we travel -- The motion of myth -- Inward voyage -- The endless atlas -- The cosmos and the city -- How we travel -- The serious business of leisure -- Transported -- Traveling outside the frame -- The industry of fake experience -- Home is where.
Text in English.

Summary:

Ilan Stavans and Joshua Ellison's Reclaiming Travel is a provocative meditation on the meaning of travel in the twenty-first century. Eschewing tourism, Stavans and Ellison urge for a rethinking of contemporary travel in order to return it to its roots as a tool for self-discovery and transformation.

ISBN:

9780822358695 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0822358697 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780822375593 (e-book)
0822375591 (e-book)

Subject:

Travel.
Voyages and travels.
Tourism.
Travel writing.
Voyage.
Voyages.
Voyage Art d'écrire.
travel.
journeys.

Form/genre:

Travel writing.
Récits de voyages.

Added entries:

Ellison, Joshua, 1978-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290107
Call No.: BIB 232896
Status: Available

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