Bowman, Jim,  1968- <br/><br/>
Narratives of Cyprus :  modern travel writing and cultural encounters since Lawrence Durrell / 
Jim Bowman. 
 - London :  I.B. Tauris,  (c)2015. New York :  Palgrave Macmillan 
 - 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) :  illustrations. 
 - International library of cultural studies ;  29 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Front Cover; Autho Bio; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustration; Acknowledgement; 1. The Cultural Stage for Stories of Conflict: Narrated Travel Writing and Modern Cyprus; 2. Seductive, Disreputable yet Resilient: Modern Travel Writing and its Critics; 3. Fashioned for Story's Sake: Lawrence Durrell's Bitter Lemons and the Lay of a Landscape Troped and Narrated for Posterity; 4. Narrating from an Intimate Distance: Turk in Colin Thubron's Journey Into Cyprus; 5. Day-tripping to the Dark Side: Narrating an Island Divided 6. Toward an Ethics of Encounter for Travel and Travel WritingNotes; Bibliography; Plates; Back Cover 
<br/><br/> "Unease has marked relations between modern travel writers and the people of Cyprus. Visitors like Lawrence Durrell, Colin Thubron, Christopher Hitchens and Sebastian Junger have registered the effects of political strife on both the people of the island and those who visit from abroad. Their accounts demonstrate how geopolitical realities -- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780857736758 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Travel writing--History and criticism.<br/>Cyprus.<br/>Travel writing.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS54  / .N377 2015