Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857452207
Format: PDF
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The travel experience filled with personal trauma; the pilgrimagethrough a war-torn place; the journey with those suffering: theserepresent the darker sides of travel. This book explores the writingsand texts of dark journeys and travels. In traveling over the dead,amongst the dying, and alongside the suffering, the authors give us atour of humanity’s violence and misery. From this dark side,there comes great beauty and poignancy in the characterization ofplight; creativity in the comic, graphic, and graffiti sketches andcomments on life; and the sense of profound and spiritual journeysbeing undertaken, recorded, and memorialized.