Traveller
eBook - ePub

Traveller

Observations from an American in Exile

  1. 152 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Traveller

Observations from an American in Exile

About this book

"How could I have known then with no maps acquired and my bags not yet packed that my journey had already begun?...The tools of a traveler are compass and map. They calculate distances covered and destinations sought but cannot measure the consequences of experiences on a human heart, " writes Michael Katakis in his introduction. Traveller is a collection of letters and journal entries that bring the immediacy of experience together with perceptive reflections of the author's own past. The entries in this volume are not travel guides. They are more personal, like letters from the most desirable sort of friend. The friend carries the listener with him as he meanders through the medina in Fez or into the hills of Gallipoli. His voice is such that listeners can almost smell the herbs and dusty soil of Crete, and always they are introduced to the people he meets along the way. For anyone curious about the world, and introduced with a foreword written and read by Michael Palin, Traveller is sure to delight, infuriate and, perhaps most importantly, inspire thought about the complex world around them.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. The Importance of a Lie
  10. On the Metro
  11. A Beautiful Ankle
  12. Transvestites for Bush
  13. The Invisible Man and the Man on the Moon
  14. Tango
  15. I hope the Dog Wins
  16. Leaving America
  17. The Sad Garden
  18. A Beautiful Sandwich
  19. Class Like Voodoo
  20. Adieu Madeleine Levy
  21. The Finest Concert
  22. Funding Your Own Assassins
  23. I Rise to the News of War
  24. I Do Not Like Texas
  25. Stomach Full of Grappa
  26. I Hope She Made it to Paris
  27. Not Today Virginia
  28. Somewhere in China / I am Lost
  29. Still Lost in China
  30. Witches, Dreams and the Satellite
  31. Where is the Monkey?
  32. Pillars of Hercules
  33. Anzac Cove
  34. A Sense of Foreboding
  35. Secular? Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
  36. Art that is Alive
  37. The Soldier and the Milkshake
  38. A Sad Family Album
  39. Above it All
  40. Savages
  41. Like Eating for the First Time
  42. My Kind of Cop
  43. The Little Girl I Could Not Save
  44. First Trip to Mecca?
  45. Another America
  46. Clouds Hill
  47. A Place that has Whored Itself
  48. A Gathering Storm
  49. The Best Bad Tea in the World
  50. Where are the Tapas?
  51. Deportation
  52. Polite but not Impressed with Americans
  53. Kris and the Ambassador
  54. A Sad Anniversary
  55. Michael and Helen Palin
  56. Dancing With Death and Mr. Rove
  57. Gallipoli
  58. Friends are Fine
  59. Choice, What Choice?
  60. Not a Real Place
  61. What Do You Mean the Embassy is Closed?
  62. Troubled Land
  63. Search for God? Perhaps Not
  64. Unconscious
  65. A French Twist
  66. Wall 25 Line 91
  67. Alan and Kati Lewis
  68. Truefitt and Hill
  69. Patrick Hemingway and the Elephant
  70. Douglas Hardin
  71. Thelma in Italy
  72. The Family Business
  73. The Abbey Bookshop
  74. Pino and Betty Gargano
  75. Hey! Where You From?
  76. Not Another Fish
  77. Will Take Verbal Abuse for Small Change
  78. I Saw My Father Dead Today
  79. Erica
  80. Morocco, If Only in Dreams
  81. Iz a Mafia
  82. If Only George Clooney Could Go to Sudan
  83. Goats, Lemons and the Ancient World
  84. Myths, Dreams and a Norwegian Girl
  85. Quick Change
  86. A Second Look
  87. Rage
  88. Stranger on a Ship
  89. I’m Working
  90. Adieu Tangier
  91. In shaa Allah
  92. Candy and Conversion
  93. Narrow Alleys, Staring Eyes
  94. Ramadan
  95. Farewell Sweet Sasha
  96. A Perfect Day in Chantilly
  97. My True North
  98. Epilogue
  99. Acknowledgments