| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 211 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging and impressionistic works of literary nonfiction we associate with V.S. Naipaul and Bruce Chatwin. What is it about Germany and the travel book that puts them seemingly at odds? With one foot in the library and one on the street, Michael Gorra offers both an answer to this question and his own trav. |
| Contents |
Preface: The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog; CHAPTER ONE: Cultural Capital; CHAPTER TWO: The Peculiarities of German Travel; CHAPTER THREE: Visible Cities; CHAPTER FOUR: The Dentist's House; CHAPTER FIVE: Fragments and Digressions; CHAPTER SIX: Hauptstadt; CHAPTER SEVEN: Family Chronicles; Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading; Acknowledgments; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Travel writing -- History.
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Travel writing. |
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History. |
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Germany -- Description and travel.
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Germany. |
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Germany -- In literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gorra, Michael Edward. Bells in their silence. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2004 0691117659 9780691117652 (DLC) 2003056474 (OCoLC)52623657 |
| ISBN |
9781400826018 (electronic book) |
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1400826012 (electronic book) |
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0691117659 (alkaline paper) |
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