Fiona J. Duff Knihy

The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing is a broad, specially commissioned introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. Five essays survey the period's travel writing; six more focus on areas of particular interest--Arabia, the Amazon, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California, while the final three analyze some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions of this enigmatic, influential genre of writing. An extensive further reading list plus a detailed chronology are included.

Focusing on phonological techniques, this revised edition serves as a comprehensive guide for enhancing reading comprehension in students facing reading delays and dyslexia. It incorporates the latest advancements in the field, making it a valuable resource for educators and specialists aiming to support struggling readers effectively.

Charley's Woods recounts the disturbed upbringing of the adopted son of an aristocratic male cross-dresser and a bohemian lesbian.

The North Atlantic Cities by Charles B. Duff, which is available for the first time in the United States, is a book on urban development and urban life masquerading as a book on architecture. It is the story of four hundred years of architecture and urban development in four countries: the Netherlands, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States, particularly cities like New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Savannah, to name a few. The author starts with a kind of building few others have considered--the row house--which could very well be the key to understanding why many of the world's great cities look and function as they do. From the 1600s to today as the author theorizes, this innocuous-seeming housing type is perhaps the antidote to suburban sprawl, urban decay, and the worst catastrophes of global climate change.

Taking the career of one man, the actor, producer and director Frith Banbury, this book casts a lens on mid to late twentieth century British theatre, revisiting many of the best productions of those years.