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Tales from Nowhere (Travel Literature) |
Author: Don George
Published: 2006-09-01 |
List price: $14.99
Our price: $11.24
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 Where in the world
This Lonely Planet published book gathers a plethora of stories from travel writers and news correspondents about times they spent in what seemed like absolutely nowhere. The stories are fairly short and for the most part interesting. As expected, being nowhere with seemingly nothing being remarkable will of course end up being a place that is special and will hold fond memories for you. There are stories of growth, finding oneself, kick starting your life, and a misadventure or two.
This book doesn't need read cover to cover straight through. Instead you should just read a story or two now and then. For me, I got rather bored about 2/3 of the way through the book. Spread out your reading for this one and it will be a much more enjoyable book. Mostly decent stories but a couple duds too.
 great book
This book gives nice short descriptions of lots of exciting places. It either inspires you to go, or, if you're lucky, awakens memories of exciting places you've been to yourself already!
Pack This Along
You will visit far-flung places and some not-so with really interesting folk as your guide. The writing is consistantly high caliber and the tales descriptive, adventurous, engaging, enlightening, exciting, funny, warm-hearted and thought-provoking. The best verge on poetry and rival the best literature. What's great about this book is its accessiblity. Each story is short enough to finish within a few minutes which makes it a perfect take-along read. Perhaps on a journey of your own.
Very well selected stories - beautiful book
I bought this book in an overprized Amsterdam bookstore and was actually quite skeptical if it was worth the investment. After all, who wants to pay for blog-like stories printed on paperback?
It was worth every cent. The stories are very well selected. One can only imagine the amount of travel tales the editors must have gone through before finding these outstanding pieces of travel writing.
The stories - as you would expect from a Lonely Planet publication - come from the most bizarre corners of the globe, but it is not the exotic places but the interactions with the people that make this book special.
Some of the stories resonate for days after putting down the book. The story of the guy who tries to write a book on SARS in China, travelling the country without finding much, and in the end loses everything almost has a Franz Kafka feeling about it.
This book is a screaming buy. Go and get it.
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