An edition of The tao of travel: enlightenments from lives on the road
(2011)
The tao of travel
enlightenments from lives on the road
by Paul Theroux
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A collection of writings from Paul Theroux's fifty years of travel. Included are writings from other travelers such as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway and many others.
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Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
2012, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Mariner Books
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Table of Contents
The
importance of elsewhere --
Travel in brief -- The
navel of the world -- The
Travel wisdom of Henry Fielding --
Murphy's rules of travel --
Travelers on their own books --
How long did the traveler spend traveling? --
Travel wisdom of Samuel Johnson -- The
things that they carried --
Fears, neuroses, and other conditions --
Travelers who never went alone --
Travel wisdom of Sir Francis Galton --
ravel as an ordeal --
English travelers on escaping England --
When you're strange --
Travel wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson --
It is solved by walking --
Travel feats --
Staying home --
Travel wisdom of Freya Stark --
Imaginary journeys --
Everything is edible somewhere --
Rosenblum's rules of reporting --
Travel wisdom of Claude Lévi-Strauss --
Perverse pleasures of the inhospitable --
Imaginary people --
Writers and the places they never visited --
Travel wisdom of Evelyn Waugh --
Travelers' bliss --
Classics of a sense of place --
Evocative name, disappointing place --
Travel wisdom of Paul Bowles. Dangerous, happy, alluring --
Five travel epiphanies --
The essential tao of travel.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| October 30, 2023 | Edited by Tom Morris | Merge works |
| August 13, 2020 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| November 11, 2011 | Edited by WorkBot | merge works |
| November 11, 2011 | Edited by George | merge authors |
| November 30, 2010 | Created by ImportBot | initial import |