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License to Travel
- Author
- Patrick Bixby
- Narrator
- Tim Fannon
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 25 October 2022
- Run Time
- 8 hours 27 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
License to Travel exposes the passport as both an instrument of personal freedom and a tool of government surveillance powerful enough to define our very humanity.
Patrick Bixby examines the passports of artists and intellectuals, ancient messengers and modern migrants to reveal how these seemingly humble documents implicate us in larger narratives about identity, mobility, citizenship, and state authority.
This concise cultural history:
• Takes the reader on a captivating journey from pharaonic Egypt and Handynasty China to the passport controls and crowded refugee camps of today.
• Connects intimate stories of vulnerability and desire with vivid examples drawn from world cinema, literature, art, philosophy, and politics
• Highlights the control that travel documents have over our bodies as we move around the globe.
With unexpected discoveries at every turn, from narrow escapes and new starts, tearful departures and hopeful arrivals, License to Travel shares some of our most memorable experiences involving the passport.
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Details
- Author
- Patrick Bixby
- Narrator
- Tim Fannon
- Duration
- 8 hours 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 October 2022
- ISBN
- 9781705079966
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- General and world history, Educational: Humanities and social sciences, general, Travel and holiday, Reference works
Synopsis
Discover the surprising global history of how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience to define the modern world.License to Travel exposes the passport as both an instrument of personal freedom and a tool of government surveillance powerful enough to define our very humanity.Patrick Bixby examines the passports of artists and intellectuals, ancient messengers and modern migrants to reveal how these seemingly humble documents implicate us in larger narratives about identity, mobility, citizenship, and state authority.This concise cultural history: • Takes the reader on a captivating journey from pharaonic Egypt and Handynasty China to the passport controls and crowded refugee camps of today.• Connects intimate stories of vulnerability and desire with vivid examples drawn from world cinema, literature, art, philosophy, and politics• Highlights the control that travel documents have over our bodies as we move around the globe.With unexpected discoveries at every turn, from narrow escapes and new starts, tearful departures and hopeful arrivals, License to Travel shares some of our most memorable experiences involving the passport.
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