Fiesta (eBook)

A Journey Through Festivity

Daniel Stables (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
288 Seiten
Icon Books (Verlag)
978-1-83773-253-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A journey through human festivity, told through colourful travel narratives set at some of the world's most eye-catching festivals and interweaved with insights from the fields of anthropology, history, psychology, and folklore, examining why we celebrate festivals in the ways we do.


Fiesta explores the vibrant tapestry of human festivity, delving into the extraordinary lengths we undertake to express our cultures and commemorate life's milestones. From drunken pilgrimages to sacrificial funerals, national days to neo-pagan necromancy, festivals represent human culture at its most vivid and varied, and the resulting account is both a rich collection of travel writing and an anthropological exploration of the roles that festivals play in society. Through colourful characters, vibrant sights, and varied locales, Daniel Stables takes a curious, humanistic look at festivals across the globe, unravelling the universal threads which run through our diverse global celebrations.

Autor

Daniel Stables has been working as a travel writer for the last decade, first writing guidebooks for Rough Guides, and later writing articles for National Geographic, the BBC, and national newspapers. He has won acclaim and recognition for his work, having received several nominations for Travel Writer of the Year. More of his work can be found at his website, danielstables.co.uk.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.8.2025
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Schlagworte: Ben Aitken • Bill Bryson • charlie cooper • Festival • Festivals • folklore rising • Glastonbury • levison woods • Lonely Planet • myth country • mythology of the british isles • oliver keens • Paganism • Religious Festivals • weird walks
• ISBN-10: 1-83773-253-1 / 1837732531
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83773-253-1 / 9781837732531