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Tao of Travel : Enlightenments from Lives on the Road by Paul Theroux (2012, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100547737378

ISBN-139780547737379

eBay Product ID (ePID)127405680

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Book TitleTao of Travel : Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

TopicMexico, General, Essays & Travelogues, Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional)

GenreTravel

AuthorPaul Theroux

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight9.1 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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ReviewsA "determinedly personal collection of travel appreciation." -Kirkus Reviews A "diverting meditation on passages from his own and other writers' works. [T]he strongest pieces descry a tangible place through a discerning eye and pungent sensibility..." -Publishers Weekly, A "determinedly personal collection of travel appreciation." -Kirkus Reviews A "diverting meditation on passages from his own and other writers' works. [T]he strongest pieces descry a tangible place through a discerning eye and pungent sensibility..." -Publishers Weekly --, This distillation is high, fine entertainment, but its mission is provocation, a kick in the pants to just go, wherever, go now: it's rarely too soon, never too late, and the only adventure to rue is the one not taken., A "determinedly personal collection of travel appreciation." - Kirkus Reviews A "diverting meditation on passages from his own and other writers' works. [T]he strongest pieces descry a tangible place through a discerning eye and pungent sensibility..." - Publishers Weekly

Dewey Edition22

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Table Of ContentContents Preface: The Importance of Elsewhere ix 1. Travel in Brief 1 2. The Navel of the World 23 3. The Pleasures of Railways 26 Travel Wisdom of Henry Fielding 39 4. Murphy's Rules of Travel 41 5. Travelers on Their Own Books 47 6. How Long Did the Traveler Spend Traveling? 55 Travel Wisdom of Samuel Johnson 75 7. The Things That They Carried 78 8. Fears, Neuroses, and Other Conditions 85 9. Travelers Who Never Went Alone 93 Travel Wisdom of Sir Francis Galton 105 10. Travel as an Ordeal 108 11. English Travelers on Escaping England 117 12. When You're Strange 121 Travel Wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson 127 13. It Is Solved by Walking 130 14. Travel Feats 147 15. Staying Home 158 Travel Wisdom of Freya Stark 167 16. Imaginary Journeys 171 17. Everything Is Edible Somewhere 181 18. Rosenblum's Rules of Reporting 198 Travel Wisdom of Claude Lévi-Strauss 201 19. Perverse Pleasures of the Inhospitable 203 20. Imaginary People 210 21. Writers and the Places They Never Visited 215 Travel Wisdom of Evelyn Waugh 231 22. Travelers' Bliss 234 23. Classics of a Sense of Place 238 24. Evocative Name, Disappointing Place 256 Travel Wisdom of Paul Bowles 259 25. Dangerous, Happy, Alluring 262 26. Five Travel Epiphanies 271 27. The Essential Tao of Travel 275 Acknowledgments 277 Index of People and Places 279

SynopsisA philosophical guidebook and collection of insights celebrating the joy of travel, chosen by eminent travel writer Paul Theroux, "A book to be plundered and raided." -- New York Times Book Review "A portal into a world of timeless travel literature curated by one of the greatest travel writers of our day." -- USA Today Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe in this collection of the best writing from the books that have shaped him as a reader and a traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel contains excerpts from the best of Theroux's own work interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected: Vladimir Nabokov Eudora Welty Evelyn Waugh James Baldwin Charles Dickens Pico Iyer Henry David Thoreau Anton Chekhov Mark Twain John McPhee Freya Stark Ernest Hemingway Graham Greene and many others "Dazzling . . . Like someone panning for gold, Theroux reread hundreds of travel classics and modern works, shaking out the nuggets." -- San Francisco Chronicle