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  • 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 €

  • Relembrando-A Velha Literatura de Cordel E a Voz DOS Poetas
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    'Relembrando-A Velha Literatura de Cordel e a Voz dos Poetas' really contains three important studies on the 'cordel': 1) the revision and translation of Curran’s PhD dissertation from 1968; 2) the augmentation of one of the chapters of the dissertation, treating Brazil’s best known and pioneering poet Leandro Gomes de Barros; 3) the publication of a now historic series of inte...
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    31,86 €

  • Travel and Teaching in Portugal and Spain a Photographic Journey
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    Travel and Teaching in Portugal and Spain-A Photographic Journey is another in the series Stories I Told My Students. It follows the pattern of books listed above on Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, and Colombia. The book tells the tale of travel in Portugal and travel and summer teaching in the Arizona State University summer program in Spain in 1987.The format of the book combines ...
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    26,83 €

  • Fifty Years of Research on Brazil
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    This book is a photographic journey of fifty years of research on Brazil andits folk-popular poetry, the “literatura de cordel.” The photos taken by theauthor over these fifty years are divided into three parts: 1. The poets andthe printers of “cordel” 2.The intellectuals, informants and friends associatedwith the research and 3. The fairs, markets and scenes of folklore relate...
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    23,12 €

  • A Portrait of Brazil in the Twentieth Century
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    A Portrait of Brazil in the Twentieth Century: The Universe of the 'Literatura de Cordel' is Curran’s most recent project. The book, in effect, is the English version of a major work published in Brazil in Portuguese in 2011, Retrato do Brasil em Cordel. Curran returns to Portrait for several reasons: primary is his strong feeling that the amazingly broad view of Brazil in the ...
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    21,68 €

  • A Trip to Colombia
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    Coming of Age with the Jesuits chronicles a young man’s formative years from 1959 to 1968 studying on the undergraduate level at Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri, and for the PhD at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. Between junior and senior years, Curran had his first educational experience in Latin America studying at the National University of Mexico a...
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    19,31 €

  • Perip Cias de Um Pesquisador Gringo No Brasil Nos Anos 1960
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    'Peripecias de um Pesquisador ’Gringo’ no Brasil nos Anos 1960, ou, A Cata do Cordel' e um relato divertido e informativo da primeira estada de pesquisa do Curran no Brasil. Neste livro o autor conta duas estorias: a pesquisa sobre o cordel e talvez mais importante, as viagens e a peripecias daquele primeiro ano no Brasil.Os dois relatos sao inseparaveis e se complementam. Os c...
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    22,52 €

  • Adventures of a Gringo Researcher in Brazil in the 1960’s
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    Adventures of a 'Gringo' Researcher in Brazil in the 1960s or In Search of Cordel is an entertaining and informative account of Professor Curran’s first foray in Brazil. In this book he tells two stories: the research to collect cordel and, perhaps more importantly, the travel and the adventures of the year in Brazil. The two are inseparable and complement each other. Chapters ...
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    22,51 €

  • Coming of Age with the Jesuits
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    'Coming of Age with the Jesuits' chronicles a young man’s formative years from 1959 to 1968 studying on the undergraduate level at Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri, and for the Ph.D. at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. Between junior and senior year Curran had his first educational experience in Latin America studying at the National University of Mexico...
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    20,12 €

  • The Farm
    Mark J. Curran / Mark JCurran
    Mark Curran grew up on a family farm near Abilene, Kansas, in the 1940s and 1950s. Abilene, aside from being a beautiful small town with many historic buildings and Victorian style homes on shaded streets, is famous for its role in the early cattle drives from Texas and as a railroad shipping center for livestock to the East, cowboy days, and being the childhood home of Dwight...
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    18,10 €

  • Brazil’s Folk-Popular Poetry - A Literatura de Cordel
    J. Curran Mark J. Curran / JCurran Mark JCurran
    Brazil’s folk-popular poetry - 'a literatura de cordel,' - is perhaps the most important and vibrant variant of poetry of the masses in western culture. But not many people in the English-speaking world know much about it. Written by one of the most educated scholars on the subject, Brazil’s Folk-Popular Poetry - A ...
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    16,20 €