The Tao of Travel
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag PENGUIN BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780141044262
- ISBN10 0141044268
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 304
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2012
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
Abschnitte
Travel LiteraturThe Tao of Travel
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
This is a compendium of travel writing from a master traveller Paul Theroux who 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.