At times exhilarating and harrowing, this collection of travellers' tales takes the reader to the farthest extremes of the Earth, from ice-bound Norwegian islands to the baking heat of Arabia, and from the danger of wartime Saigon to the squalor of Louisiana's bayou swamps.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Assorted travel stories,
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This review is from: Worst Journeys Picador Book of Travel (Paperback)
I really love the travel stories in this book. Each writer uses the English language so well. I have had the book for about ten years and still go back and read a bit now and again. I think if one would like to be a travellor or a writer, this book would be a good companion.
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Great read,
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This review is from: Worst journeys : the Picador book of travel (Hardcover)
Probably the best way to outline this book is to show you the contents:THE IDEA OF A BAD TRIP Joseph Brodsky - Advice to a traveller Jan Morris - My worst journey George Woodcock - My worst Journeys David Mamet - A family vacation William Trevor - The second journey Martha Gellhorn - What bores whom? Edward Hoagland - Balancing act WRITERS AND THE FEAR OF FLYING Paulette Jiles - Night flight to Attiwapiskat Timothy Findley - An unforgettable journey to Russia Stuart Stevens - from Night Train to Turkistan Martin Amis - Emergency Landing WRITERS AS TOURISTS Janice Kulyk Keefer - Aboard the Alexander Pushkin Hugo Williams - La Folie Anglaise Alberto Manguel - The farther we're from England P.K.Page - On the road again: The Australian Outback, June 1956 Anita Desai - Frozen in Froya Rohinton Mistry - Running Water Umberto Eco - from Travels in Hyperreality John Metcalf - from Adult Entertainment Bob Geldorf - from Is That It? John Updike - Venezuela for Visitors Murray Bail - from Homesickness LUCKING OUT WITH A BAD PATCH OF ROAD Norman Lewis - from Golden Earth Patrick Marnham - from Road to Katmandu Stephen Brook - from Honkytonk Gelato Mark Abley - from Beyond Forget Colin Thurbon from Where Nights Are Longest Paul Theroux - from The Old Patagonian Mary Morris - from Nothing to Declare Ronald Wright - from Cut Stones and Crossroads Charles Nicholl - from The Fruit Palace Jonathan Raban - from Old Glory Ted Conover - from Rolling Nowhere WRITERS AND THE EFFECTS OF WAR Irving Layton - Postcard Dirk Bogarde - from Backcloth James Fenton - from All The Wrong Places P.J. O'Rourke - from Holidays in Hell Gavin Young - The Murder of Hue Bruce Chatwin - A Coup John Ryle - from The Road to Abyei Carolyn Forche - Return Peregrine Hodson - from Under a Sickle Moon CLASSIC QUESTERS IN EXTREMIS Al Purdy - When I Sat Down to Play the Piano Russel Banks - from Continental Drift J. M. Coetzee - from Waiting for the Barbarians Graham Greene - from The Lawless Roads Eric Hansen - from Strangers in the Forest Redmond O'Hanlon - from In Trouble Again Wilfred Asher - from A Desert Dies Eric Newby - from A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush Peter Matthiessen - from The Snow Leopard John Mills - The Night of Lucia Anne Michaels - Pillar of Fire
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