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Marco Polo didn't go there : stories and revelations from one decade as a postmodern travel writer : with special commentary track / Rolf Potts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Potts, Rolf.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel writers--United States--Biography.
- Travel writers.
- Potts, Rolf--Travel.
- Potts, Rolf.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Palo Alto, Calif. : Travelers' Tales, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Marco Polo Didn't Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called ?Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age." For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications as National Geographic Traveler, Salon.com, and The New York Times Magazine. This book documents his boldest, funniest, and most revealing journeys?from getting stranded without water in the Libyan desert, to crashing the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Tha
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Adventures and misadventures
- pt. 2. I'm a tourist, you're a tourist
- pt. 3. The dubious thrill of press trips
- pt. 4. People you don't forget
- pt. 5. Tutorial.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-932361-71-5
- OCLC:
- 798535098
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