Description: Take-home Assignment
Worth: 15%
Due: Session 6
Word-limit: between 1000 & 1500 words
Write a review of the complete text of one of the following books.
There is an extract from each included in the Course Anthology, but you will (of course) be expected to give full consideration to the rest of the book as well:
- Kathy Acker. Kathy Goes to Haiti (1989)
- W. H. Auden & Louis MacNeice. Letters from Iceland (1937)
- Bill Bryson. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America (1989)
- Italo Calvino. Invisible Cities (1972)
- Bruce Chatwin. In Patagonia (1977)
- Anton Chekhov. The Island of Sakhalin (1895)
- Martin Edmond. Luca Antara: Passages in Search of Australia (2006)
- James Fenton. All the Wrong Places: Adrift in the Politics of Asia (1988)
- Colin Hogg. Angel Gear: On the Road with Sam Hunt (1989)
- Robin Hyde. Dragon Rampant (1939)
- Theodora Kroeber. Ishi in Two Worlds (1961)
- Douglas Mawson. Antarctic Diaries (1911-14)
- Douglas Mawson. The Home of the Blizzard (1915)
- Eric Newby. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958)
- Iain Sinclair. London Orbital (2002)
- Paul Theroux. The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific (1992)
- Tina Shaw, ed. A Passion for Travel (1998)
- What, as you see it, is the author’s overall intention in his/her work?
- How effectively does he/she achieve it?
- Give clear quotations or examples to justify your reading.
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