Vagabonds in Southeast Asia

Vagabonds in Southeast Asia
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Publisher : AuthorHouse
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 9781728318660
ISBN-13 : 1728318661
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Vagabonds in Southeast Asia by : Louis Di Eugenio

Mark Del Savio is deployed to Vietnam ten days after marrying the beautiful but capricious Serena. The forced separation immediately after the nuptials puts an immediate strain on their relationship. Serena miscarries their child early on in Mark’s tour, which begins a downward spiral in their marriage. Mark gets run over by a US Army truck during the Tet Offensive of 1968 while working in the Long Binh Ammunition Depot, has a near-death experience, and begins to cope with life in a hedonistic fashion. This point of demarcation has him living life on the edge as if each day were his last and as one endless adventure. The war itself is simply a backdrop to this story that sometimes interrupts with rocket attacks, massive explosions, and the death of fellow soldiers. When he faces the reality of returning home, it turns out to be his biggest challenge of all.

The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination

The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9781000412406
ISBN-13 : 1000412407
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination by : Avishek Ray

This book discusses the epistemic foundation of the heuristic construct ‘vagabond’ and the convergence between the politics of itinerancy and that of dissent in the context of South Asia. It describes the fraught relationship between ‘native’ itinerant practices and techniques of governmentality which have furnished different categorizations and taxonomies of mobility. The book demonstrates the historical seismic breaks – from the Orientalist to the post-Orientalist, from the premodern to the modern, and from the colonial to the post-colonial – in the representation of the vagabond in the juridico-political imagination, in historiography and cultural articulation. For instance, the drunk European sailor, the quasi-religious mendicant, and the helpless famine refugee have all been referred to as ‘vagabonds’ in the colonial archive. This book examines the histories and conditions behind these conceptual overlaps, as well as the uncanny associations among categories that uneasily coexist and mirror each other as subsets of a vast range of phenomena, which may loosely be called ‘vagabond(age)’. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of literature, cultural studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, history, migration studies, sociology, and South Asia studies.

The Asian Road

The Asian Road
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 1631321404
ISBN-13 : 9781631321405
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Asian Road by : Mik Hamilton

The author and his new German wife packed their backpacks and, with no money, on a beautiful summer day, set out on the road with no goal or purpose and with little knowledge of what lie ahead. Together they blazed a trail from Europe to India that a few years later would become known as The Hippie Trail. Hitch-hiking from Frankfurt, through Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Rangoon, Bangkok, Malaysia, Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, they led a life filled with meeting incredible people, experiencing strange cultures, humorous incidents, dangerous adventures, and desperate circumstances, aimlessly wandering on the road and in the streets of Europe and Asia until it all led back to that search for meaning, leading to a desperate climax in the deserts of Rajasthan.

The Vagabond's Way

The Vagabond's Way
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Publisher : Ballantine Books
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9780593497470
ISBN-13 : 0593497473
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis The Vagabond's Way by : Rolf Potts

“Thought-provoking, encouraging, and inspiring” (Gretchen Rubin) reflections on the power of travel to transform our daily lives—from the iconoclastic travel writer, scholar, and author of Vagabonding For readers who dream of travel, yearn to get back out on the road, or want to enrich a journey they’re currently on, The Vagabond’s Way explores and celebrates the life-altering essence of travel all year long. Each day of the year features a meditation on an aspect of the journey, anchored by words of wisdom from a variety of thinkers—from Stoic philosopher Seneca and poet Maya Angelou to Trappist monk Thomas Merton and Grover from Sesame Street. Iconoclastic travel writer and scholar Rolf Potts embraces the ragged-edged, harder-to-quantify aspects of travel that inevitably change travelers’ lives for the better in unexpected ways. The book’s various sections mirror the phases of a trip, including • dreaming and planning the journey: “All life-affecting journeys—and the unexpected wonders they promise—become real the moment you decide they will happen.” • embracing the rhythms of the journey: “The most poignant experiences on the road occur in those quiet moments when we recognize beauty in the ordinary.” • finding richer travel experiences: “Developing an instinct to venture beyond the obvious on the road allows you to see places as mysteries to be investigated.” • expanding your comfort zone: “No moment of instant gratification can compare to savoring an experience that has been earned by enduring the adversity that comes with it.” The Vagabond’s Way encourages you to sustain the mindset of a journey, even when you aren’t able to travel, and affirms that travel is as much a way of being as it is an act of movement.

A Japanese Vagabond

A Japanese Vagabond
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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages : 947
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ISBN-10 : 9781493153268
ISBN-13 : 1493153269
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis A Japanese Vagabond by : Mayumi Yamada-Shimotai

In 1986, Mayumi left Japan with a bicycle to flee from constrains of life as a Japanese girl. Without a plan nor travelling experiences, she kept pedalling around the globe – during the final epoch of the Cold War – for about 35,000 kilometres, facing various kinds of difficulties and taking advantage of people’s goodwill. This is the travel story of about the first half of her drifting passage, from Japan up to the last stop in South America – Brazil – in which there are clues to interpret the enigma of Japan and Japanese as well as a cross section of Latin America in the Cold War era.

Vagabond Stars

Vagabond Stars
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Total Pages : 460
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ISBN-10 : 0815603290
ISBN-13 : 9780815603290
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Vagabond Stars by : Nahma Sandrow

Proceedings of a May 1994 symposium held to present cutting edge multidisciplinary work on the characterization of ancient materials; the technologies of selection, production, and usage by which materials are transformed into the objects and artifacts we find today; the science underlying their deterioration, preservation, and conservation; and sociocultural interpretation derived from an empirical methodology of observation, measurement, and experimentation. Over 70 contributions discuss topics that include the visual appearance and the imitation of one material by another; stable protective coatings and materials stability; resource surveying, source characterization, and cultural implications; and process reconstruction as essential to understanding of condition and conservation. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Total Pages : 1384
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89082992264
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Library of Congress Subject Headings by : Library of Congress

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Total Pages : 1378
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015057968458
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Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Library of Congress Subject Headings by : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office

Vocational Vagabond, Volunteer Vacationer

Vocational Vagabond, Volunteer Vacationer
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Publisher : Booktango
Total Pages : 85
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ISBN-10 : 9781468918106
ISBN-13 : 1468918109
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Vocational Vagabond, Volunteer Vacationer by : Astra Lincoln

In 2011, a young girl left her home to travel the world as a volunteer farmer. She immediately lost most of her money, lost sight of her plans, and lost touch with who she had thought she was. This book serves as a whirlwind tour of her story and the people in it, from gutter-punks to gurus in French bakeries or Californian coastal communes. A love story, a horror story, a near-mythological nuptial with the land, this book insists upon the goodness of the world's poor and reckless wanderers with starry eyes and helping hands. Equal parts memoir, anthropological study, and philosophical essay, this genre-bending how-to guide is an ecological, economical, and international plea to stop worrying, quit your job, and start searching.

The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia

The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 568
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ISBN-10 : 9780824841942
ISBN-13 : 0824841948
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia by : David P. Chandler