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  • LETTERS FROM BRAZIL VI
    Mark J. Curran
    'LETTERS FROM BRAZIL VI' is a return to reporting of the final trips to Brazil from 1988 to 2005. The author recounts research, conferences, book launchings and travel, all in journalistic form. Emphasis is given to the small moments, inspired by the chronicles of Luís Fernando Veríssimo, as well as the major events. It is the small events that may illicit most interest and ent...
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    45,40 €

  • THE SCAMP ODYSSEY V
    Mark J. Curran
    THE SCAMP ODYSSEY VThe Final Highlightsis the last in the Scamp Trailer Travel Series. The 'Highlights' are taken from Scamp Trips in 2012, 2014, 2017, and 2022.Places, local history, experiences and photos are informative and of high quality. Former Scamp books simply did not have thespace for them. The 'Table of Contents' reveals them all. Nature is emphasized.In 2012 there a...
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    55,41 €

  • THE SCAMP ODYSSEY III AND IV
    Mark J. Curran
    THE SCAMP ODYSSEY III AND IV The Mountain West Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Canada is the third in the Scamp Odyssey Series. It is a travel book which combines images of the places seen along with short descriptions of local history. The book contains the text and images of four s...
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    56,09 €

  • THE SCAMP ODYSSEY II
    Mark J. Curran
    THE SCAMP ODYSSEY IIPart 1 - The Redwoods and the Oregon CoastPart 2 - Washington and the Columbia River EastThis book is a travelogue of Mark and wife Keah, journeys in the Scamp Trailer and wonderful times to the West Coast. Among them: in Part 1, the California Redwoods, Newport and its Aquarium, Yaquina Point, The Tillamook World War II Blimp Museum, and the Evergreen Air M...
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    50,50 €

  • RURAL ODYSSEY VII
    Mark J. Curran
    RURAL ODYSSEY VII Or What Is to Come continues the Rural Odyssey series making fiction of real life and now science fiction. It tells of Mike and Mariah O’Brien back in Abilene working at Dwight D. Eisenhower College. Mike heads 'Kansas and Southwest Studies' and Mariah is Dean of Women and Counseling plus teaching one course in American Literature. Daughter Ariel is a freshm...
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    56,09 €

  • O LIVRO DA GRATIDÃO
    Mark J. Curran
    O Livro da GratidãoEncontrosFolcloristas, Escritores e Professoresis Curran’s tribute and thanks to the folklorists, writers and professors who guided him in research,writing and publication in Brazil from 1966 to 2005. Excerpts from past publications in Brazil recalleach of some thirty-eight personages from those years. Whenever possible the author’s photos orphotos from the i...
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    55,70 €

  • THE SCAMP ODYSSEY
    Mark J. Curran
    'THE SCAMP ODYSSEY'is the first in a new series by the author telling of annual trailer trips from 2004 to 2022. The title is inspired by 'The Motorcycle Diary.' In Part I the author details travel from Vallecito Lake, Colorado, to Backus Minnesota and return, a 4000-mile trip. He details places passed and visited with commentary on the local history - towns of the San Luis Val...
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    55,60 €

  • THE GRAVEYARD ELEGY MEMORIES OF ABILENE
    Mark J. Curran
    THE GRAVEYARD ELEGY MEMORIES OF ABILENEwas inspired by cemetery visits and the poem 'Elegy in a Country Courtyard' by Thomas Gray.It is largely a photographic journey of Abilene in four parts:Part I. The Protestant Cemetery, Early Abilene History, Personal MemoriesPart II. The Catholic Cemetery and Growing Up MemoriesPart III. Select Abilene Businesses and Victorians, Memories...
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    69,99 €

  • Travel Made Fiction 'Adventure Travel' to British Columbia and Alaska
    Mark J. Curran
    Travel Made Fiction'Adventure Travel' in British Columbia and Alaskais the 8th in the series of the travel - made - fiction 'Adventure Travel' series by Curran. What is differentis that this time the book is like a travelogue with an abundance of photos, although description onthe places visited appears along with limited fictional remarks by the author.Travel to major sites in...
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    71,17 €

  • TRAVEL MADE FICTION - SOUTH AMERICA BY AIR
    Mark J. Curran / Mark J. Curren
    'TRAVEL MADE FICTION SOUTH AMERICA BY AIR'is the seventh book in Mark Curran’s 'Adventure Travel' series. It combines real life history, culture andtourism with an at times humorous fictional account of travelers and staff of AT on the trip. Thereare ten parts, like the Greek Epic. Travel is to Peru, Buenos Aires, Uruguay, Iguacu, Rio de Janeiro,Salvador da Bahia, Manaus, Bogo...
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    61,80 €

  • FIVE 'ROMANCES' OF 'CORDEL'
    Mark J. Curran
    FIVE 'ROMANCES' OF 'CORDEL' is a return to a long - time research topic, but nowto the very beginnings of Brazil’s 'literatura popular em verso' or 'literatura de cordel.' Theearly 'romances' or 'historias' of 'cordel' began as narrative poetry telling a story based onpopular literature from Portugal, Spain and France. The stories from Europe were in proseand were sold by the L...
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    38,78 €

  • Rural Odyssey VI
    Mark J. Curran
    RURAL ODYSSEY VI Abilene - Trail Mix combines fiction and history. It tells of Mike O’Reilly, his wife Mariah Palafox O’Reilly and daughter Ariel’s return to Abilene, Kansas for a one - year stay. Mike and Mariah hold adjunct positions at DDEC, Dwight D. Eisenhower College, where Mike taught since 1963 and Mariah in the 1970s. Daughter Ariel returns to the town and schoolmate...
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    52,58 €

  • LETTERS FROM BRAZIL V
    Mark J. Curran
    Mark Curran is a retired professor from Arizona State University where he worked from 1968 to 2011. He taught Spanish and Portuguese and their respective cultures. His research specialty was Brazil and its 'popular literature in verse' or the 'Literatura de Cordel,' and he has published many articles in research reviews and now some fourteen books related to the 'Cordel' in Bra...
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    58,52 €

  • 'Adventure Travel' A New Partnership
    Mark J. Curran
    'ADVENTURE TRAVEL' - A NEW PARTNERSHIP The Royal Princessis a return to the author’s 'Adventure Travel' series, now the 6th. It is based on real travel but made fiction. Professor Mike Gaherty and Assistant Expedition Leader Amy Carrier, long time friends and collegues and some time lovers, reconnect in a new venture for AT - a Partnership with Princess ...
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    31,30 €

  • RURAL ODYSSEY V
    Mark J. Curran
    RURAL ODYSSEY V - TROUBLE IN A KANSAS RIVER TOWN is a return to fiction. It tells the latest in Curran’s stories of Abilene, Kansas. Trouble comes to Abilene in an unexpected armed attack on the town and its residents in 1971 by KKK and 'rugged individualists' out for revenge for the conviction and imprisonment in Abilene of their relatives and cronies in past years. Following ...
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    39,35 €

  • 'ADVENTURE TRAVEL' IN COLOMBIA - MOMENTS OF MAYHEM
    Mark J. Curran
    'ADVENTURE TRAVEL' IN COLOMBIA - MOMENTS OF MAYHEMOr, Colombia Revisited is a return to the author’s travel and research in Colombia years ago, but now revised and made into 'historical and cultural fiction.'Professor Michael Gaherty and 'Adventure Travel' Assistant Expedition Leader Amy Carrier travel to Colombia to research and scope out the country for a possible Expedition...
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    31,36 €

  • The Writing and Publishing Journey
    Mark J. Curran
    'The Writing and Publishing Journey' is a summary and catalogue of all of Professor Curran’s writings. It includes the academic books before retirement, the academic and cultural books during retirement, the experiments with fiction based on the former, and a brief addendum of academic articles in research journals. Each volume is introduced by the cover image in full color. Th...
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    35,67 €

  • Rural Odyssey Iv Parallels
    Mark J. Curran
    'RURAL ODYSSEY IV - PARALLELS Abilene - Cowboys - 'Cordel' is a return to the 'Rural Odyssey' series, a narrative in fiction telling of Professor Mike O’Brien’s work on a 'History of Abilene,' life with his young wife, Professor Mariah Palafox O’Brien, and their jobs at DDEC (Dwight D. Eisenhower College) in Abilene. After telling of his 'History of Abilene,' the book recounts...
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    24,61 €

  • Two
    Mark J. Curran
    TWO BY MARK J. CURRANASU Days as well as The Guitars - A Music Odyssey are a return to the autobiographical.Book I ASU Days tells the story beginning with graduate study for the Ph.D in Spanish and Latin American Studies and the account of Mark’s years at Arizona State University. It is comprised of memories of teaching and research days at ASU but also a description of campus ...
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    24,58 €

  • 'Adventure Travel' in Guatemala
    Mark J. Curran
    'Adventure Travel' in Guatemala - The Maya Heritage is the fourth in the series of fiction - travel - culture - adventure books on Brazil, Mexico, Portugal-Spain, and now Guatemala. Professor Mike Gaherty and AT Leader Amy Carrier are in Guatemala researching that country as a destination for a future AT Travel Trip for its 'Adventurers.' They investigate Antigua, Puerto San Jo...
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    23,83 €

  • The Master of the 'Literatura De Cordel' Leandro Gomes De Barros
    Mark J. Curran
    'The Master of the ’Literatura de Cordel’ - Leandro Gomes de Barros. A Bilingual Anthology of Selected Works' is Professor Curran’s return to research and writing from his first days in Brazil in 1966-1967 on a Fulbright Hays Fellowship for Ph.D. dissertation work. This book treats 'Cordel’s' best known and arguably best poet, a translation to English of his selected works, and...
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    42,07 €

  • Letters from Brazil Iv
    Mark J. Curran
    'Letters from Brazil IV' is the most recent in the series of Professor Mike Gaherty’s travel and research in Brazil. He has returned in 1984 after an 'invited' hiatus since 1971 by the General heading Brazil’s Pre-Censorship Board, this due to Mike’s friendship, research, collaboration with, and defense of singer-composer Chico Buarque de Hollanda. He is reporting on current ev...
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    23,80 €

  • American Mafia
    Mark W Curran
    Research journalist Mark W. Curran tells the story of how organized crime built the town of Las Vegas into the glittering mecca it is today. Learn how the mob built the most dazzling and decadent city in the West before being dismantled by federal prosecutors hell-bent on taking them down. Through archival photos and first hand accounts from those who participated, American Maf...
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    21,44 €

  • The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I
    Mark Curran
    This volume is a ground-breaking contribution to enlightenment studies and the international and cross-cultural history of print. The result of a five year research project, the volume traces the output and dissemination of books and how reading tastes changed in the years 1769-1794. Mapping the book trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a Swiss publisher-whole...
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    55,02 €

  • The Collection
    Mark J. Curran
    'The Collection' is meant as an introduction to and summary of Curran’s primary and secondary holdings on Brazil’s 'Literatura de Cordel' now at the Latin American Library of Tulane University. The book relates the story of how the 'cordel' collection was put together including telling of its primary sources, the poets themselves and 'cordel' stands or 'barracas' in cities or t...
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    42,50 €

  • Rural Odyssey Iii Dreams Fulfilled and Back to Abilene
    Mark J. Curran
    RURAL ODYSSEY III Dreams Fulfilled and Back to Abilene, A Fictional and Historical Narrative' is the third in the series of fictionalized stories based on Mark Curran’s autobiography 'The Farm.' Mike O’Brien and Mariah Palafox fulfill their dreams of graduate education, travel and research in Mexico, and return to Abilene where life offers new adventures. ...
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    24,34 €

  • Portugal and Spain on the 'International Adventurer'
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    'Portugal and Spain on the ’International Adventurer’' is historical fiction and continues the travel adventures of Professor Mike Gaherty with IA 'Assistant Adventurer Leader' Amy Carrier and a volatile cast of fictional adventurers traversing Portugal and Spain. One sees the best of these two off and on enemies and competitive nations - monuments, Literary Personages, food a...
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    24,29 €

  • Pre - Columbian Mexico Plans, Pitfalls, and Perils
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    'Pre - Columbian Mexico - Plans, Pitfalls, and Perils' is historical fiction and continues the adventures and escapades of Professor Mike Gaherty, this time along with colleague - girlfriend Amy Carrier, on a travel, research trip to Mexico. The goal is to scope out and research Mexico for a possible Adventure Travel expedition, its first all on land, and in partnership with Ne...
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    24,07 €

  • Around Brazil on the 'International Adventurer'
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    Around Brazil on the 'International Adventurer' - a Fictional Panegyric is the story of Professor Mike Gaherty in a new 'gig' as Cultural Speaker for Adventure Travel’s small ship expedition around Brazil, a thirty-plus day trip from Manaus in the Amazon Basin to Rio Grande in the South with major stops in Belém do Pará, Recife, Salvador, Ilhéus, Rio de Janeiro and Parati. Adve...
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    24,39 €

  • A Rural Odyssey Ii
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    'A RURAL ODYSSEY - Abilene - Digging Deeper' is the continuation of the story of Mick O’Brien, now a college graduate and back in his home town of Abilene, Kansas teaching at the new Junior College. He settles into daily life in Abilene and spends time with girlfriend Mariah Palafox a professor of English at the Juco. Family, friends, teaching, research and work on Mick’s 'Hist...
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    24,76 €


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