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Worst Journeys Picador Book of Travel

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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.

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