Paul Theroux
The Tao of Travel
Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
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The acclaimed author explores the greatest travel writing by literary adventurers from Freya Stark and James Baldwin to Nabokov and Hemmingway.Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe with this meditative journey through the books that shaped him as a reader and traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates The Contents of Some Travelers' Bags and exposes Writers Who Wrote about Places They Never Visited; tracks extreme journeys in Travel as an Ordeal and highlights some of Travelers' Favorite Places. Excerpts from the best of Theroux's own work are interspersed with sel…
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The acclaimed author explores the greatest travel writing by literary adventurers from Freya Stark and James Baldwin to Nabokov and Hemmingway.Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe with this meditative journey through the books that shaped him as a reader and traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates The Contents of Some Travelers' Bags and exposes Writers Who Wrote about Places They Never Visited; tracks extreme journeys in Travel as an Ordeal and highlights some of Travelers' Favorite Places. Excerpts from the best of Theroux's own work are interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected, including J.R.R. Tolkien, Samuel Johnson, Eudora Welty, Evelyn Waugh, Isak Dinesen, Charles Dickens, Henry David Thoreau, Pico Iyer, Mark Twain, Anton Chekhov, Bruce Chatwin, John McPhee, Peter Matthiessen, Graham Greene, Paul Bowles, and many more.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-547-54919-4
- EAN: 9780547549194
- Produktnummer: 27881670
- Verlag: Mariner Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 306 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'436 KB
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PAUL THEROUX is the author of many highly acclaimed books. His novels include A Dead Hand and The Mosquito Coast, and his renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and Dark Star Safari. He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod.
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