num_pages: 400
description: "Curious, sensible, and irrevereent...Crichton comes to see his travles--both in mind and through country--as ways of getting in better touch with himself."LOS ANGELES TIMESHere is a record of Michael Crichton's astonishing adventures. It is a vision of travel not as escape but as exhilaration, as a testing of self, and as spiritual education. Crichton shows us travel as turmoil and as peace. All of this voyages, outward and inward, from his twenties to his mid-forties, have been journeys into awareness--leading him to the excitement and benison of direct expeirence undimmed by expectations, theories, or old assumptions. His remarkable book is in itself a fascinating realm in which the adventurous are invited to travel.
language: English
title: Travels
titlecomplete: Travels
genres: Travelogue, Biography, Adventure, Thriller, Spirituality, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Travel, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 9302
publisher: Ballantine Books