The tao of travel: enlightenments from lives on the road
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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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Theroux, P. (2011). The tao of travel: enlightenments from lives on the road. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Theroux, Paul. 2011. The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments From Lives On the Road. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Theroux, Paul, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments From Lives On the Road. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
MLA Citation (style guide)Theroux, Paul. The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments From Lives On the Road. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
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300 | |a xii, 285 p. : |b ill., col. maps ; |c 21 cm. | ||
500 | |a Maps on endpapers. | ||
500 | |a Includes index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a The importance of elsewhere -- Travel in brief -- The navel of the world -- The pleasures of railways -- 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 -- Travel 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. | |
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