The tao of travel
Subtitle: enlightenments from lives on the road
By: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780241145258; 9780241144640
Subjects: Travel; Anecdotes; Travelers
Other titles: Enlightenments from lives on the road
Description: A collection of writings from Paul Theroux's fifty years of travel. Included are writings from other travelers such as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway and many others.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The; title: importance of elsewhere --; title: Travel in brief -- The; title: navel of the world -- The; title: Travel wisdom of Henry Fielding --; title: Murphy's rules of travel --; title: Travelers on their own books --; title: How long did the traveler spend traveling? --; title: Travel wisdom of Samuel Johnson -- The; title: things that they carried --; title: Fears, neuroses, and other conditions --; title: Travelers who never went alone --; title: Travel wisdom of Sir Francis Galton --; title: ravel as an ordeal --; title: English travelers on escaping England --; title: When you're strange --; title: Travel wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson --; title: It is solved by walking --; title: Travel feats --; title: Staying home --; title: Travel wisdom of Freya Stark --; title: Imaginary journeys --; title: Everything is edible somewhere --; title: Rosenblum's rules of reporting --; title: Travel wisdom of Claude Lévi-Strauss --; title: Perverse pleasures of the inhospitable --; title: Imaginary people --; title: Writers and the places they never visited --; title: Travel wisdom of Evelyn Waugh --; title: Travelers' bliss --; title: Classics of a sense of place --; title: Evocative name, disappointing place --; title: Travel wisdom of Paul Bowles. Dangerous, happy, alluring --; title: Five travel epiphanies --; title: The essential tao of travel.