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Book Description
Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, "The Tao of Travel" enumerates "The Contents of Some Travelers' Bags" and exposes "Writers Who Wrote about Places They Never Visited"; tracks extreme journeys in "Travel as an Ordeal" and highlights some of "Travelers' Favorite Places." Excerpts from the best of Theroux's own work are interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar 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
"The Tao of Travel" is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.
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