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Includes the name: Bernd Stiegler

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Interesting source material, but read like a thesis, causing my eyes to glaze over and my head to ache.
 
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encephalical | 1 muu arvostelu | Apr 29, 2018 |
An excellent survey and analysis of literature on travelling without leaving your home, your house or your room. Sharpen your powers of observation and your eyes and you will see and understand so much more than travelling the world. Includes really good and interesting bibliographies at the end of each chapter.
There are excellent snippets within the book such as this quote by Alphonse Karr: 'Travelers', he complains, 'are strange beings who go to great distances, and at great expense, to see new things, without having taken the trouble to look at their feet or over their heads, where as many extraordinary and unknown things are passing as they can possibly desire to know'. Quoted in Bernd Stiegler, pages 72-73, and page 86: Objects are more than just possessions; they are women and children, history and desire, memories and happiness'.… (lisätietoja)
 
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22
Jäseniä
107
Suosituimmuussija
#180,615
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½ 3.4
Kirja-arvosteluja
2
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27
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4

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