Traveler's Life: November 2008

Aloha Hawaii Fly to Hawaii Waikiki Posters

Aloha Hawaii Art Print

Erickson, Kerne

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Hawaii Art Print

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Visit Lahaina Art Print

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Fly to Hawaii Clipper Airline Giclee Print

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Waikiki Art Print

Erickson, Kerne

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Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, HI Photographic Print

Bartruff, Dave

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Map of Hawaii Art Print

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Fly to Hawaii Art Print

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Hawaii, Land of Surf and Sunshine Art Print

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Diamond Head and Waikiki at Twilight, Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii, USA Photographic Print

Cecil, Ann

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Kapalua Village Course, Maui, Hawaii Posters

Kapalua's Village Course, Maui, Hawaii, USA Photographic Print

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Kapalua: The Ritz-Carlton, The Kapalua Villas, Kapalua Bay Hotel, Golf Courses
Kapalua is firmly commited to the preservation and conservation of its 23,000 acres which contain some of the most pristine and biologically rich areas remaining in Hawai'i. In 1992, Maui Land & Pineapple Company, the parent company ofKapalua Land Company, dedicated an 8,661-acre native forest to The Nature Conservancy of Hawai'i.

Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii, Maui, Lanai, Kahoolawe, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai

The Hawaiian Islands rise above an elongated submarine platform or ridge that stretches for almost 2000 statute miles in a southeast to northwest direction, between the parallels of 18° 40′ to 28° 40′ north, and, the meridians of 154° 30′ to 178° 40′ west. The platform is supposedly constructed of volcanic materials that were erupted from a zone of fissures on the ocean floor; besides the visible islands there are several submarine peaks and numerous banks.

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Pineapple Field on a Landscape, Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii, USA Photographic Print

Panoramic Images

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Maldives Travel Poster

Jetty Maldives Poster

Borchi, Massimo

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Sinbad or Sindbad, the Sailor
Being becalmed in the Indian Ocean, he and some others of the crew visit what they suppose to be an island, but which is in reality a huge whale asleep. They light a fire on the whale, and the heat wakes the creature, which instantly dives under water. Sinbad is picked up by some merchants, and in due time returns home.

Fihalhohi Island, Maldives Door Poster

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La Digue Island, Seychelles, Indian Ocean Art Print

Hanel, K.H.

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Brasil Soccer T-Shirt

Soccer - Brasil Vintage Flag T-Shirt

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Puerto Rico T-Shirt

Around the World - Puerto Rico Palm T-Shirt

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The notion of travel as an exercise in universalizing discourse, particularly fitting to scholastic notions of how knowledge was to be sought, endured for a long time. But it was increasingly overlapped and eventually eclipsed by another tradition, which gave preeminence to the "eye" and to silent "observation." To a modern reader, one of the most anomalous features of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century travel sermons is the consistency with which they digress into human anatomy, rhetorically arguing the superiority of the eye over the ear. With inevitable juridical reference, travel is praised through favorable contrast between "eyewitness" and "hearsay" as legally admissible evidence and ground for valid judgment. Auricular knowledge and discourse identified with traditional authority, Aristotelianism, and the Schoolmen are devalued in favor of an "eye" believed to yield direct, unmediated, and personally verified experience. The shift accompanies a new naturalistic orientation and attains its purest expression in the seventeenth century, when it is nurtured by a fashion in courtly circles for Natural Philosophy and an epistemological individualism which enjoins every man to "see," verify, and, in a sense, create" the world anew for himself.

Argentina Flag Women's T-Shirt

Women's: Argentina - Vintage Flag T-Shirt

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Travel was first widely proclaimed as an art, and openly secular forms of tourism were first systematically practiced by European elites, in the early sixteenth century. One need only turn to the treatises on travel method produced during a period which was preoccupied with the problem of "method" in all branches of learning to find evidence that sightseeing did not always enjoy its later pride of place. The travelers that treatises addressed, scholar-courtiers and young aristocrats preparing for diplomatic and legal careers, went abroad seeking educational experience at universities in Paris, Bologna, or Padua, as well as opportunities to engage the services of Europe's foremost dancing, music, fencing, or riding masters with whom they would be forced to speak in a foreign tongue. Books played a prominent part in the preparation for a journey and their purchase was one of its objects. The aristocratic traveler who was addressed, often by his tutor, in early manuals on advice went abroad for discourse rather than for picturesque views or scenes. The art of travel he was urged to cultivate was in large measure one of discoursing with the living and the dead--learning foreign tongues, obtaining access to foreign courts, conversing gracefully with eminent men, assimilating classical texts appropriate to particular sites, and, not least, speaking eloquently upon his return.