Aspects of Tramping
Author | : L. D. Bridge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Hiking |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : L. D. Bridge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Hiking |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wing See Emily Tsoi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Physical fitness |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Samuel Alexander |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2020-11-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9811578613 |
This book presents a series of urban investigations undertaken in the metropolis of Melbourne. It is based on the idea that ‘enchantment’ as an affective state is important to ethical and political engagement. Alexander and Gleeson argue that a sense of enchantment can give people the impulse to care and engage in an increasingly troubled world, whereas disenchantment can lead to resignation. Applying and extending this theory to the urban landscape, the authors walk their home city with eyes open to the possibility of seeing and experiencing the industrial city in different ways. This unique methodology, described as ‘urban tramping’, positions the authors as freethinking freewalkers of the city, encumbered only with the duty to look through the delusions of industrial capitalism towards its troubled, contradictory soul. These urban investigations were disrupted midway by COVID-19, a plague that ended up confirming the book’s central thesis of a fractured modernity vulnerable to various internal contradictions.
Author | : Gordon H. Boyce |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2024-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1802075550 |
Celebrated in the novels of Joseph Conrad and vintage films, tramp ships - the precursor of bulk carriers - are not well understood today. Yet, these vessels transported in bulk essential minerals and ores, grains, timber, and other commodities and played a vital role in creating the modern global economy. While the histories of some individual tramp firms have been written, this book uses personal correspondence and surviving company records to chart the development of the entire industry - the largest in the world- during a period of transformational technical change. Who were the bold, risk-takers who founded tramp firms? How did they mobilise the resources needed to enter this dynamic sector, build immense companies, and accumulate vast fortunes? Why did others fail? This study reveals how executives learned ‘the art’ of managing tramps and developed strategic networking skills. Tramp shipping resonates with many of today’s high-growth industries: it was an information intensive, high stress operation that required rapid - sometimes instinctive - decision-making within a turbulent market. Building business networks was supported by a distinctive culture that streamlined communication. This innovative study places information, knowledge, learning, culture, and communication at the centre of the analysis in order to transport readers into the minds of those fascinating entrepreneurs who helped build the modern world.
Author | : Geoff Chapple |
Publisher | : Random House (New Zealand) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Hiking |
ISBN | : 9781869797140 |
Te Araroa is a 3000km walking trail from Cape Reinga to Bluff, the world's newest long trail, and one of the world's longest. Te Araroa walkers will discover the great diversity of New Zealand's wilderness: the coastline, the forest, the volcanoes, the mountain passes, the lakes and river valleys. This fully updated walking guide is indispensable for those contemplating a through-hike, either in one go or over years, and also for those who simply wnat to walk any one of the trail's 115 stand-alone tracks.
Author | : Shaun Barnett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2022-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781990048081 |
New Zealanders have produced a rich body of literature about tramping, with writing spanning nearly two centuries and ranging from poetry and songs, journals and newspaper pieces to magazine articles and books. The pieces in Across the Pass, as selected by Shaun Barnett, range from epic tales to stories of strolls. Some writers celebrate the intricacies of nature and the strong bond forged when facing challenges together, while others talk of treading the trails first pioneered by their ancestors. All say something about the many textures and colours of the experience we call tramping. Across the Pass includes writing from New Zealanders such as writer John Mulgan, mountaineers Sir Edmund Hillary and Lydia Bradey, adventurer Graeme Dingle, public servant Bill Sutch, MP Eugenie Sage, and photographer Craig Potton.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Ships |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robin Craig |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2017-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786949113 |
This study explores the history of tramp-shipping in the United Kingdom, between 1750 and 1914. It defines ‘tramp’ as steamships exclusively hulled with iron or steel. The purpose of the journal is to keep the history of tramp-shipping from fading into obscurity, as the author believes the tramp steamer does not invoke sentimentality nor provide enough glamour to sustain the same level of maritime interest enjoyed by sailing ships or ocean liners. The study is split into four major sections, the first concerning tramp-shipping, ownership, and capital formation; the second concerning trade, specifically copper ore and African guano; the third studies tramp seamen - particularly sea masters; and the final and largest section considers individual tramp-shipping regions, further subdivided by region - Wales, the Northwest, the West Country, the Northeast, the Southeast, and Canada. The volume is punctuated with statistics, tables, charts, glossaries, and concludes with a bibliography of author Robin Craig’s further maritime writing.
Author | : Eric H. Monkkonen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521531252 |
This book examines the rapid spread of uniformed police forces throughout late nineteenth-century urban America. It suggests that, initially, the new kind of police in industrial cities served primarily as agents of class control, dispensing and administering welfare services as an unintentioned consequence of their uniformed presence on the streets.
Author | : Stephen Graham |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2011-03-23 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1446546276 |
The Gentle Art of Tramping is a practical guide to long-distance walking and a philosophical account of human restlessness and the desire to connect with nature. Stephen Graham travelled extensively around pre-revolutionary Russia and the travel writer often expressed his dislike of industrialisation. He writes of the beauty of nature and humanity’s passiveness towards the wild world. Encouraging people to take up ‘tramping’, or what we would now call hiking or long-distance walking, Graham offers tips and insight into the travelling life. First published in 1926, with the shadow of the First World War not far behind, The Gentle Art of Tramping is as relevant now as it was then. This simple but beautifully written walking guide will ignite a love for nature in its readers as well as entertain them with Graham’s whimsical and funny prose. This volume features the following chapters: - ‘We Set Out’ - ‘The Art of Idleness’ - ‘Emblems of Tramping’ - ‘Drying After Rain’ - ‘Marching Songs’ - ‘Seeking Shelter’ - ‘The Tramp as Cook’ - ‘The Artist’s Notebook’ Proudly republished by nature and non-fiction specialist, A Thousand Fields, The Gentle Art of Tramping now includes introductory essays and excerpts on walking by Sydney Smith, William Hazlitt, Leslie Stephen, and John Burroughs. This volume is not to be missed by fans of Stephen Graham and contemporary nature writers such as Robert Macfarlane.