The tao of travel : enlightenments from lives on the road / Paul Theroux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Theroux, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel--Anecdotes.

Travel.

Travelers.

Travelers--Anecdotes.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

xii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Enlightenments from lives on the road

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Maps on endpapers.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780547336916

0547336918

OCLC:

651912284