Holidays in heck / P.J. O'Rourke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Rourke, P. J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

O'Rourke, P. J--Travel--Humor.

O'Rourke, P. J.

Vacations--Humor.

Vacations.

Travel--Humor.

Travel.

Politics and government.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--2009---Humor.

Genre:

Humor.

Physical Description:

xvii, 265 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Title from dust jacket: Holidays in heck : a former war correspondent experiences frightening vacation fun

Place of Publication:

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2011]

Summary:

A follow-up to "Holidays in hell" collects classic travel pieces written throughout the author's post-retirement years, a period marked by his haphazard journeys with and without family to such regions as China, Kyrgyzstan, and America.

Contents:

Introduction. A former war correspondent experiences frightening vacation fun

Republicans evolving : the Galápagos Islands, April 2003

Monumnetal [i.e. Monumental] generations : the national World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C., June 2004

Round on the ends and "Hi!" in the middle : Ohio skiing, February 2005

Riding to the hounds versus going to the dogs : Britain after the hunting ban, March 2005

My EU vacation : reading the European Constitution on a French Beach, Guadaloupe, May 2005

On first looking into the Airbus A380 : Toulouse, June 2005

If you think modern life is awful, you haven't seen modern art : Venice Biennale, July 2005

My wife's got a gun : Brays Island Plantation, South Carolina, February 2006

A freedom ride through China : Spring 2006

Side trip up the Yangtze : June 2006

A horse of a different color : Kyrgyzstan, July 2006

Sweet-and-sour children and twice-fried parents to go : Hong Kong, December 2007

The big stick, or Why I voted for John McCain : USS Theodore Roosevelt, April 2008

White man speak with forked tongue : the Field Museum, Chicago, May 2008

The decline and fall of tomorrow : Disneyland, June 2008

A journey to

let's not go there : Summer 2008

The seventy-two-hour Afghan expert : Kabul, July 2010

Capital gains : Washington, D.C., August 2010

Home unalone : New Hampshire, March 2011.

Notes:

"The follow-up to the classic Holidays in Hell."

ISBN:

9780802119858 :

0802119859

9781611856040

1611856043

OCLC:

713188015