Better than fiction
Subtitle: true travel tales from great fiction writers
By: edited by Don George
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Melbourne; Oakland, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781742205946
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Travel; Anecdotes; Travelers' writings; Authors
Description: "A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Téa Obreht, DBC Pierre"--P. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Going south  -- Kurt Andersen; title: Kind of blue  -- Sophie Cunningham; title: Huaxi Watermill  -- Arnold Zable; title: Shooting Pompeii  -- DBC Pierre; title: The mountain mine  -- Carol Birch; title: The tin can  -- Tom Carson; title: Among Saudi sands  -- Keija Parssinen; title: Quetzal  -- Frances Mayes; title: Off the beaten track in Malawi  -- Marina Lewycka; title: Adrift in the Solomon Islands  -- Mark Dapin; title: Confessions of a coconut-soup eater  -- Steven Amsterdam; title: Sudan : the Scarface Express  -- Joe Yogerst; title: Chasing missionaries  -- Suzanne Joinson; title: In bear trap canyon  -- Peter Mathiessen; title: A tohunga with a promise to keep  -- Keri Hulme; title: Death trip  -- Peter Ho Davies; title: A visit to San Quentin  -- Joyce Carol Oates; title: On my way home  -- Lloyd Jones; title: You, me and the sea  -- Steven Hall; title: The Fairbanks Shakespeare Camp  -- Stefan Merrill Block; title: When things make no sense  -- Pico Iyer; title: The way to Hav  -- Jan Morris; title: A tango with Freud  -- Alexander McCall Smith; title: Getting travel dirt under your fingernails  -- Bryce Courtney; title: A small world after all  -- Charles Finch; title: The thieves of Rome  -- M.J. Hyland; title: Arriving in Luxembourg  -- Chris Pavone; title: Mumbai : before the monsoon  -- Stephen Kelman; title: An Alpine escape  -- Aliya Whitely; title: Who wants a girl?  -- Isabel Allende; title: Into unknown climes  -- Nikki Gemmell; title: Nuestro pueblo -- Tea Obreht.