The Amateur Tramp

The Amateur Tramp
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ISBN-10 : 0646989375
ISBN-13 : 9780646989372
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Amateur Tramp by : Colin Choat

Aidan De Brune was the first person to walk around the perimeter of Australia. He set off in 1921, unaccompanied and unassisted and walked 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometres) from Sydney to Sydney, anticlockwise. Everywhere he walked, he asked people to sign his travel diary, as evidence of his presence in the places he visited. He was also a journalist and he regularly wrote articles during his walk, which appeared in the Sydney Daily Mail and other newspapers.He was a prolific writer of serialised mystery stories, which were syndicated in newspapers throughout Australia and New Zealand. He was also an accomplished musician who gave music lessons and at one time played piano accompaniments to silent films in London.

The Idler

The Idler
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Total Pages : 888
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112113989138
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Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis The Idler by : Jerome Klapka Jerome

Sunday Afternoon

Sunday Afternoon
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Total Pages : 592
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015068393191
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Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

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T.P.'s Weekly

T.P.'s Weekly
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Total Pages : 842
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ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924069714347
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Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

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The Academy

The Academy
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Total Pages : 672
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000080759974
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Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

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The Strand Magazine

The Strand Magazine
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Total Pages : 816
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015010717406
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Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis The Strand Magazine by : Sir George Newnes

Homelessness

Homelessness
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 492
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ISBN-10 : 9781317943822
ISBN-13 : 1317943821
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Homelessness by : James M. Henslin

This is Volume II of a bibliography of works on the homelessness and is dedicated to the many homeless people who discussed their situation during the author's research across the United States.

The Idler

The Idler
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Total Pages : 770
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015068391005
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Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

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'Tinkers'

'Tinkers'
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Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9780199566464
ISBN-13 : 0199566461
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis 'Tinkers' by : Mary Burke

Irish playwright J.M. Synge created influential but misunderstood representations of travellers or 'tinkers'. This work traces the history of the 'tinker' back to medieval Irish historiography and English Renaissance literature and forward to contemporary US screen depictions.

Slumming

Slumming
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 9780691128009
ISBN-13 : 0691128006
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Slumming by : Seth Koven

In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality. The slums of late-Victorian London became synonymous with all that was wrong with industrial capitalist society. But for philanthropic men and women eager to free themselves from the starched conventions of bourgeois respectability and domesticity, slums were also places of personal liberation and experimentation. Slumming allowed them to act on their irresistible "attraction of repulsion" for the poor and permitted them, with society's approval, to get dirty and express their own "dirty" desires for intimacy with slum dwellers and, sometimes, with one another. Slumming elucidates the histories of a wide range of preoccupations about poverty and urban life, altruism and sexuality that remain central in Anglo-American culture, including the ethics of undercover investigative reporting, the connections between cross-class sympathy and same-sex desire, and the intermingling of the wish to rescue the poor with the impulse to eroticize and sexually exploit them. By revealing the extent to which politics and erotics, social and sexual categories overflowed their boundaries and transformed one another, Koven recaptures the ethical dilemmas that men and women confronted--and continue to confront--in trying to "love thy neighbor as thyself."