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Better than fiction 2 : true travel adventures from 30 great fiction writers / edited by Don George.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages and travels.
- Travel--Anecdotes.
- Travel.
- Authors--Travel.
- Travelers' writings.
- Authors--Travel--Anecdotes.
- Authors.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 317 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Footscray, Australia : Lonely Planet, 2015.
- Summary:
- "Join famous fiction writers and up-and-coming authors for this globe-trotting sequel of real-life travel tales. Settings for these true stories- by turns funny, poignant and occasionally unsettling- roam from Azerbaijan to Vietnam, via Iceland, India, Samoa, Scotland and beyond.
- Contents:
- Italian education / Karen Joy Fowler
- Into the fjord / Rebecca Dinerstein
- Alone in Iceland / Jane Smiley
- Discovering fear in Baja / Avi Duckor-Jones
- Awkward situations / Catherine Lacey
- My Mississippi / Porochista Khakpour
- Hunting nanda / DBC Pierre
- Swami sand castle / Francine Prose
- Kazakh flash mob 2050! / Christina Nichol
- And the world laughs with you / Stefan Merrill Block
- Nothing happened / Jack Livings
- Road to Riyadh / Dave Eggers
- Road to lost places / Fiona Kidman
- How I evaded arrest on a train platform (somewhere in the north of England) / M.J. Hyland
- Hotel whose name we're not going to mention in this story / Steven Hall
- Sleepless in Samoa / Mandy Sayer
- Peru, 1996 / Lily King
- In a caucasian wonderland / Suzanne Joinson
- A trip to some islands / Alexander McCall Smith
- A miracle in Luhansk / Marina Lewycka
- The Boudin train / Natalie Baszile
- My family's France / Keija Parssinen
- American daughter / Marie-Helene Bertino
- Rocky point / Lydia Millet
- In Smolensk / Lloyd Jones
- Into the grand canyon / Sophie Cunningham
- Getting lost / Steven Amsterdam
- Travels with Suna / Shirley Streshinsky
- 'The leaping prow' / David Shafer
- The places where we wait / Aliya Whiteley.
- ISBN:
- 1743607490
- 9781743607497
- 9781760340421
- 1760340421
- OCLC:
- 903635268
- Publisher Number:
- 99978161359
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