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  • 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 €

  • '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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Letters from Brazil Iii
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    'Letters from Brazil III' is a continuation of Professor Mike Gaherty’s adventures in Brazil. It chronicles in fiction Mike’s initiation into the Portuguese-Brazilian academic world in the milieu of a major international 'congress.' The academic affair is followed by Mike’s friendship and involvement with singer-composer Chico Buarque de Hollanda, the reporting for the New Yo...
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    16,88 €

  • A Rural Odyssey
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    A Rural Odyssey: Living Can Be Dangerous is the story of Mick O’Brien’s growing-up years on a small wheat farm in Central Kansas in the 1940s and 1950s. It tells of his Catholic Irish American pioneering farm parents, the religious and moral beliefs of their traditions, and the consequences of living the same way. Mick and his siblings inherited their traditions. The growing of...
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    17,70 €

  • Letters from Brazil Ii
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    Letters from Brazil II is a continuation of Letters from Brazil, 2017. Mike Gaherty, now an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, is back in Brazil to continue research and begin the battle for publication in a 'publish or perish' academic world. He now has a Brazilian visa as journalist-researcher in his role of writing occasional 'Letters' to the New Y...
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    16,98 €

  • A Professor Takes to the Sea
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    A Professor Takes to the Sea: Learning the Ropes on the National Geographic Explorer, Volume II, 2014 and 2016, continues Professor Currans experiences on board this great expedition ship. No longer a rookie but almost, Curran recounts early efforts to join the ship crew, staff, and guest speakers on a return trip from Salvador da Bahia to Buenos Aires in 2014 (with an Atlantic...
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    21,77 €

  • A Professor Takes to the Sea
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    A Professor Takes to the Sea: Learning the Ropes on the National Geographic Explorer Volume I Epic South America 2013 tells of Professor Currans experiences on board this great expedition ship on the 2013 voyage. The book recounts early efforts to join with the ship crew, staff, and guest speakers in the collective task of providing an enriching experience for the guests or pas...
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    14,14 €

  • Letters from Brazil
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    Letters from Brazil: A Cultural-Historical Narrative Made Fiction recounts the adventures of young researcher Mike Gaherty in Brazil in the turbulent 1960s. It tells the story of his research on Brazilian folklore and folk-popular literature (with inevitable amorous moments along the way) while dodging encounters and threats from agents of the DOPS, Brazil’s chief espionage and...
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    24,29 €

  • Diário de um Pesquisador Norte - Americano no Brasil III
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    “Diário de um Pesquisador Norte – Americano no Brasil III” é o último na série “Estórias que Contei aos Estudantes”. É a continuação do namoro e a odisseia do autor no Brasil, esta vez dos anos 1988 a 2005.O volume traz ao dia os momentos no Brasil e tem muito mais o caráter de simples “diário de viagem”. Há ênfase na participação de congressos no Brasil, a publicação de trabal...
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    19,48 €

  • Diary of A North American Researcher in Brazil III
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    “Diary of a North American Researcher in Brazil III” is the last in the series “Stories I Told My Students.” It is the continuation of the author’s love affair and odyssey in Brazil, this time from 1988 to 2005. The volume brings to the present moments lived in Brazil and is written much more in the framework of a travel diary in Brazil. Short vignettes about people and places ...
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    19,86 €

  • It Happened In Brazil - Chronicle of a North American Researcher in Brazil II
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    'It Happened in Brazil: Chronicle of a North American Researcher in Brazil II' is the English version of 'Aconteceu no Brasil: Crônica de um Pesquisador Norte - Americano II.' The book is a continuation of the first volume in the series published in 2012 in both Portuguese and English: 'Adventures of a ’Gringo’ Researcher in Brazil in the 1960s.' It continues Curran’s love affa...
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    22,63 €

  • Aconteceu no Brasil - Crônicas de um Pesquisador Norte - Americano no Brasil II
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    'Aconteceu no Brasil - Crônicas de um Pesquisador Norte - Americano no Brasil II' é a continuação de um livro editado uns anos atrás: 'Peripécias de um Pesquisador ’Gringo’ no Brasil no Anos 1960'. Continua o namoro e a odisseia do autor no Brasil de 1969 a 1985 (um terceiro volume trará tudo ao presente, isso daqui a uns anos).O volume presente tratará varias estadas no Brasil...
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    21,53 €


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