TY - BOOK AU - Bowman,Jim TI - Narratives of Cyprus: modern travel writing and cultural encounters since Lawrence Durrell T2 - International library of cultural studies SN - 9780857736758 AV - DS54 .N377 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - I.B. Tauris KW - Travel writing KW - History and criticism KW - Cyprus KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - "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 -- UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1000793&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -