Appealing to both those who like to travel and those who just like to read about travel, this book features entries about a wide variety of locations in a style that is part memoir, part reportage, and part good old-fashioned story. Many of the world’s best writers are featured in this edition, including Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Paul Theroux, Jonathan Raban, Norman Lewis, Graham Swift, Isabel Hilton, and Christopher Hitchens. Every essay is a gem, from “A Coup” by Bruce Chatwin to “Fat Girls in Des Moines” by Bill Bryson.
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My old friend, the painter, poet and novelist, Hector Rojas Herazo-whom I hadn't seen for a long time-must have felt a tremor of compassion when he saw me in Madrid in a crush of photographers and journalists, for he came up to me and whispered: 'Remember that from time to time you should be nice to yourself.' Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Civic Forum, Des Moines, Khmers Rouges, Long Crendon, Prek Chak, Latin America, Communist Party, Sendero Luminoso, The Golden Book, Transit Police, Big People, Sokrat Janowicz, Benitez Rickman, Phnom Penh, Juancito the Liar, Manihari Ghat, North Kensington, Permanent Secretary, President Stroessner, Alfredo Stroessner, British Embassy, Edith Lagos, Flushing Avenue New!
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My old friend, the painter, poet and novelist, Hector Rojas Herazo-whom I hadn't seen for a long time-must have felt a tremor of compassion when he saw me in Madrid in a crush of photographers and journalists, for he came up to me and whispered: 'Remember that from time to time you should be nice to yourself.' Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Civic Forum, Des Moines, Khmers Rouges, Long Crendon, Prek Chak, Latin America, Communist Party, Sendero Luminoso, The Golden Book, Transit Police, Big People, Sokrat Janowicz, Benitez Rickman, Phnom Penh, Juancito the Liar, Manihari Ghat, North Kensington, Permanent Secretary, President Stroessner, Alfredo Stroessner, British Embassy, Edith Lagos, Flushing Avenue New!
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- Moby Dick (Bibliotheque Des Grands Classiques)(Illustrated) (French Edition) by Melville on page 12
- Railway bazaar by Paul Theroux in Front Matter
- Against All Hope: The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares by Armando Valladares on page 171
- Moby Dick (Usborne Classics) by H Melville on page 12
- Of Blood and Hope by Samuel Pisar on page 313
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- Travel Culture: Essays on What Makes Us Go by Carol Traynor Williams on page 49, and Back Matter
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- Let's Get Lost: Adventures in the Great Wide Open by Craig Nelson in Back Matter
- Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times by Amitav Ghosh in Back Matter
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