Russian Phrases For Dummies Publisher: For Dummies | ISBN: 0470149744 | edition 2007 | PDF | 218 pages | 12 mb Traveling in a foreign country such as Russia suddenly becomes a lot more exciting when you can engage in elegant small talk with the locals. Russian Phrases For Dummies is your handy guide to everyday words and phrases you can start using immediately to make your visit more rewarding and a whole lot easier.

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Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity+Military Intelligence Blunders Publisher: University of Georgia+Carroll & Graf Publishers | ISBN: 0820327654+0786707151 | edition 2005+2000 | PDF | 254+372 pages | 10,5 mb Traveling South is the first major study of how narratives of travel through the antebellum South helped construct an American national identity during the years between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. John Cox makes his case on the basis of a broad range of texts that includes slave narratives, domestic literature, and soldiers’ diaries, as well as more traditional forms of travel writing. In the process he extends the boundaries of travel literature both as a genre and as a subject of academic study

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