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The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
The Tao of Travel Enlightenments from Lives on the Road Author:Paul Theroux Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe in this collection of the best writing from the books that 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 familia... more »r and unexpected:
Vladimir Nabokov J.R.R. Tolkien
Samuel Johnson Eudora Welty
Evelyn Waugh Isak Dinesen
Charles Dickens James Baldwin
Henry David Thoreau Pico Iyer
Mark Twain Anton Chekhov
Bruce Chatwin John McPhee
Freya Stark Peter Matthiessen
Graham Greene Ernest Hemingway
With a new afterword for the paperback edition, The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.« less