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100 1 $aO'Rourke, P. J.
245 10 $aHolidays in heck /$cP.J. O'Rourke.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAtlantic Monthly Press ;$a[Berkeley, Calif.] :$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$cc2011.
300 $axvii, 265 p. ;$c24 cm.
500 $a"The follow-up to the classic Holidays in Hell."
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tA former war correspondent experiences frightening vacation fun --$tRepublicans evolving : the Galápagos Islands, April 2003 --$tMonumnetal [i.e. Monumental] generations : the national World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C., June 2004 --$tRound on the ends and "Hi!" in the middle : Ohio skiing, February 2005 --$tRiding to the hounds versus going to the dogs : Britain after the hunting ban, March 2005 --$tMy EU vacation : reading the European Constitution on a French Beach, Guadaloupe, May 2005 --$tOn first looking into the Airbus A380 : Toulouse, June 2005 --$tIf you think modern life is awful, you haven't seen modern art : Venice Biennale, July 2005 --$tMy wife's got a gun : Brays Island Plantation, South Carolina, February 2006 --$tA freedom ride through China : Spring 2006 --$tSide trip up the Yangtze : June 2006 --$tA horse of a different color : Kyrgyzstan, July 2006 --$tSweet-and-sour children and twice-fried parents to go : Hong Kong, December 2007 --$tThe big stick, or Why I voted for John McCain : USS Theodore Roosevelt, April 2008 --$tWhite man speak with forked tongue : the Field Museum, Chicago, May 2008 --$tThe decline and fall of tomorrow : Disneyland, June 2008 --$tA journey to-- let's not go there : Summer 2008 --$tThe seventy-two-hour Afghan expert : Kabul, July 2010 --$tCapital gains : Washington, D.C., August 2010 --$tHome unalone : New Hampshire, March 2011.
520 $aA follow-up to "Holidays in hell" collects classic travel pieces written throughout the author's post-retirement years, a period marked by his haphazard journeys with and without family to such regions as China, Kyrgyzstan, and America.
600 10 $aO'Rourke, P. J.$xTravel$vHumor.
650 0 $aVacations$vHumor.
650 0 $aTravel$vHumor.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2009-$vHumor.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2011277149-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1413/2011277149-d.html