An edition of Holidays in heck
(2011)
Holidays in heck
1st ed.
by P. J. O'Rourke
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A 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.
Publish Date
2011
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press,
Distributed by Publishers Group West,
Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Language
English
Pages
265
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Subjects
Politics and government, Travel, Humor, Vacations, Humor, topic, politics, Humor, form, essays, American wit and humor, travelPeople
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Table of Contents
Introduction.
A former war correspondent experiences frightening vacation fun --
Republicans evolving : the Galápagos Islands, April 2003 --
Monumnetal [i.e. Monumental] generations : the national World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C., June 2004 --
Round on the ends and "Hi!" in the middle : Ohio skiing, February 2005 --
Riding to the hounds versus going to the dogs : Britain after the hunting ban, March 2005 --
My EU vacation : reading the European Constitution on a French Beach, Guadaloupe, May 2005 --
On first looking into the Airbus A380 : Toulouse, June 2005 --
If you think modern life is awful, you haven't seen modern art : Venice Biennale, July 2005 --
My wife's got a gun : Brays Island Plantation, South Carolina, February 2006 --
A freedom ride through China : Spring 2006 --
Side trip up the Yangtze : June 2006 --
A horse of a different color : Kyrgyzstan, July 2006 --
Sweet-and-sour children and twice-fried parents to go : Hong Kong, December 2007 --
The big stick, or Why I voted for John McCain : USS Theodore Roosevelt, April 2008 --
White man speak with forked tongue : the Field Museum, Chicago, May 2008 --
The decline and fall of tomorrow : Disneyland, June 2008 --
A journey to-- let's not go there : Summer 2008 --
The seventy-two-hour Afghan expert : Kabul, July 2010 --
Capital gains : Washington, D.C., August 2010 --
Home unalone : New Hampshire, March 2011.
Edition Notes
"The follow-up to the classic Holidays in Hell."
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