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Better than fiction 2 : true travel adventures from 30 great fiction writers / edited by Don George.

Van Pelt Library G465 .B48653 2015
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
George, Donald W., editor.
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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