The Tao of Travel
eBook - ePub

The Tao of Travel

Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

  1. 306 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Tao of Travel

Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

About this book

The acclaimed author explores the greatest travel writing by literary adventurers from Freya Stark and James Baldwin to Nabokov and Hemmingway.

Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe with this meditative journey through the books that shaped him as a reader and 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, including J.R.R. Tolkien, Samuel Johnson, Eudora Welty, Evelyn Waugh, Isak Dinesen, Charles Dickens, Henry David Thoreau, Pico Iyer, Mark Twain, Anton Chekhov, Bruce Chatwin, John McPhee, Peter Matthiessen, Graham Greene, Paul Bowles, and many more.

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Information

Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9780547549194
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Travel

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Map
  4. Copyright
  5. Preface: The Importance of Elsewhere
  6. Abbreviations of Book Titles
  7. 1. Travel in Brief
  8. 2. The Navel of the World
  9. 3. The Pleasures of Railways
  10. Travel Wisdom of Henry Fielding
  11. 4. Murphy’s Rules of Travel
  12. 5. Travelers on Their Own Books
  13. 6. How Long Did the Traveler Spend Traveling?
  14. Travel Wisdom of Samuel Johnson
  15. 7. The Things That They Carried
  16. 8. Fears, Neuroses, and Other Conditions
  17. 9. Travelers Who Never Went Alone
  18. Travel Wisdom of Sir Francis Galton
  19. 10. Travel as an Ordeal
  20. 11. English Travelers on Escaping England
  21. 12. When You’re Strange
  22. Travel Wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson
  23. 13. It Is Solved by Walking
  24. 14. Travel Feats
  25. 15. Staying Home
  26. Travel Wisdom of Freya Stark
  27. 16. Imaginary Journeys
  28. 17. Everything Is Edible Somewhere
  29. 18. Rosenblum’s Rules of Reporting
  30. Travel Wisdom of Claude Lévi-Strauss
  31. 19. Perverse Pleasures of the Inhospitable
  32. 20. Imaginary People
  33. 21. Writers and the Places They Never Visited
  34. Travel Wisdom of Evelyn Waugh
  35. 22. Travelers’ Bliss
  36. 23. Classics of a Sense of Place
  37. 24. Evocative Name, Disappointing Place
  38. Travel Wisdom of Paul Bowles
  39. 25. Dangerous, Happy, Alluring
  40. 26. Five Travel Epiphanies
  41. 27. The Essential Tao of Travel
  42. Afterword
  43. Acknowledgments
  44. Index of People and Places
  45. Permissions and Credits
  46. Sample Chapter from THE LAST TRAIN TO ZONA VERDE
  47. Buy the Book
  48. Read More from Paul Theroux
  49. About the Author
  50. Footnotes

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