Worst Journeys (Paperback)

by Keath Fraser (Author), Keath Frazer (Author)

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Product Description
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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 409 pages
• Publisher: MacMillan (December 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0330321412
• ISBN-13: 978-0330321419
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,955,026 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great read, October 16, 2008

By	L. Massaar "Len Massaar" (Vancouver, WA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

5.0 out of 5 stars Assorted travel stories, August 2, 2005

By	D. A. Perry (Maleny, Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.