The incidental tourist : on the road with a globetrotting Nobel Prize winner / Peter Doherty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doherty, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nobel Prize winners--Australia.

Nobel Prize winners.

Doherty, P. C. (Peter C.)--Travel.

Doherty, P. C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Join Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty on his extraordinary adventures around the globe.Doherty's dazzling schedule can leave his head spinning. So what happens when he lifts his gaze and asks: 'What the hell am I doing here?' Doherty has kept a journal about the far-flung destinations his work has taken him to for more than thirty years. His observations and discoveries in The Incidental Tourist make for perfect armchair travel.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Experiments, data and connections

1 The incidental tourist

2 Bugs in space

3 Italy, off the beaten track

4 Octopus on the beach

5 Aerial art deco

6 Retracing the knights

7 Vertical city

8 Beware the sparkler

9 The practiced traveller

10 The Tea Horse Road

11 United we stand

12 Up for a spin

13 Informal settlements

14 Missing the vultures

15 Meeting of the rivers

16 Steely resolve

17 Ups and downs

18 Sea to shining sea

19 Up to date in Kansas City

20 Snowed inn

21 Biting the big apple

22 Walled city

23 The coalmine

24 The synagogue

25 Cats of consequence

26 Ports to new worlds

27 Hearing the music

Sources

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522871739

0522871739

OCLC:

1088329421