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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 05/04/2012
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ISBN: 9780141044262
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Length: 304 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
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Weight: 213g
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RRP: £9.99
A compendium of travel writing from a master traveller
Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates 'The Contents of Some Travellers' Bags' and exposes 'Writers Who Wrote About Places They Never Visited'; tracks extreme journeys in 'Travel As An Ordeal' and highlights some of 'Travellers' Favourite Places'. Excerpts from the best of Theroux's own work are interspersed with selections from travellers both familiar and unexpected, including Vladimir Nabokov, Henry David Thoreau, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway and more.
The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 05/04/2012
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ISBN: 9780141044262
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Length: 304 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
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Weight: 213g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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One for the armchair traveller and the adventurer who has scaled K2 and swum the Bosphorus. Like a long train journey, once you settle in there's a lot to enjoy. Gripping
The Times
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Dazzling . . . like someone panning for gold, Theroux reread hundreds of travel classics and modern works, shaking out the nuggets. A source of inspiration for prospective travelers and a guide to how, in Theroux's view, to travel properly
San Fransisco Chronicle
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Pure entertainment
Financial Times
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A real treat for anyone travelling
Guardian
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One of the best introductions to travelling and travel writing
Sunday Times
