A fascinating glimpse of life in Japan in 1920 as experienced through the eyes of an observant and sensitive American missionary whose travels took him beyond Tokyo to the mountainous Tohoku region an
A critical survey of the picturesque tour in national literature from Charles Brockden Brown to writers of the American Renaissance, detailing how American writers' attitudes toward this European aest
In 1769 Thomas Gray (best known for his Elegy in a Country Chuchyard) made a tour of the English Lakes, and recorded it in a journal that is now widely accepted as the first example of modern travel w
This slim volume covers the traditional parts of quantum mechanics: semiclassical theories of radiation and scattering, a number of advanced problems: Feynman diagrams and relativistic quantum mechani
From the very beginning, Sullivan's Island has held a unique place in the history of South Carolina. As a fortress, it provided protection from enemies. As a lazaretto, it became a main corridor throu
In the autumn of 1873, Wilkie Collins followed the example of fellow literary celebrities Dickens and Thackeray, and began a six-month reading tour of America. This book places this tour within the Am
老婆可以賣、老鼠可以告、滾水可以摸、上帝會詛咒…… 靠！什麼鬼？！竟然都跟經濟學有關 你知道： *在十九世紀的英國，「二手的」妻子是拍賣會上的搶手貨嗎？ *直到今天的賴比瑞亞，被起訴的罪犯，會以喝下毒藥來決定是否有罪？ *中世紀的義大利，有長達250年的時間，就算是蟑螂或蟋蟀，也可能會吃上官司？ What The Fuck？ 「靠！什麼鬼？」是我們感到驚嘆
Chloe Chard assembles fascinating passages from late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century accounts of travel in Italy, by Northern Europeans, writing in English (or, in some cases, translat
The international adventures of a southern widow turned patron of historical discovery, Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910 is a travelogue of captivating episodes in exotic
