James A Clapp: 4 books
The City
A Dictionary of Quotable Thoughts on Cities and Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The City is the best, funniest, saddest, and most thought-provoking compilation ever assembled on the urban scene. James A. Clapp has arranged more than three thousand quotations—epigrams, epithets, verses, proverbs, scriptural references, witticisms, lyrics, literary references, and historical...
by James A. Clapp
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The American city and the American movie industry grew up together in the early decades of the twentieth century, making film an ideal medium through which to better understand urban life. Exploiting the increasing popularity of large metropolitan cities and urban lifestyle, movies chronicled the...
Vademecum Italica
Travels in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Having traveled to some seventy countries over thirty years I am sometimes asked “what is your favorite country?” It could be qualified: for food? for art? for weather? for natural beauty? The answers might be different. But when the question is put comprehensively, I hesitate—because I know that...
Mon Cahier De Paris
Cafe Writings 1989, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
FROM THE AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION: The present volume grew out of the development of a writing course I designed for travelers and aspirant travel writers built around what I refer to as “travel journaling,” and is intended for future iterations of that course by myself as well as other teachers and...