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The Tao of Travel

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141044262

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 200mm x 20mm x 130mm

  • Weight: 214g

  • RRP: £10.99

The Tao of Travel

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.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141044262

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 200mm x 20mm x 130mm

  • Weight: 214g

  • RRP: £10.99

Reviews

  • 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

  • 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

  • Pure entertainment

    Financial Times

  • A real treat for anyone travelling

    Guardian

  • One of the best introductions to travelling and travel writing

    Sunday Times

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About the Author

Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast. He won the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing 2020. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.

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