Holidays in heck
By: P.J. O'Rourke
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780802119858; 9781611856040
Subjects: Politics and government; Travel; Humor; Vacations
Description: A follow-up to "Holidays in hell" collects classic travel pieces written throughout the author's post-retirement years, a period marked by his haphazard journeys with and without family to such regions as China, Kyrgyzstan, and America.
Notes: "The follow-up to the classic Holidays in Hell."
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: A former war correspondent experiences frightening vacation fun --; title: Republicans evolving : the Galápagos Islands, April 2003 --; title: Monumnetal [i.e. Monumental] generations : the national World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C., June 2004 --; title: Round on the ends and "Hi!" in the middle : Ohio skiing, February 2005 --; title: Riding to the hounds versus going to the dogs : Britain after the hunting ban, March 2005 --; title: My EU vacation : reading the European Constitution on a French Beach, Guadaloupe, May 2005 --; title: On first looking into the Airbus A380 : Toulouse, June 2005 --; title: If you think modern life is awful, you haven't seen modern art : Venice  Biennale, July 2005 --; title: My wife's got a gun : Brays Island Plantation, South Carolina, February 2006 --; title: A freedom ride through China : Spring 2006 --; title: Side trip up the Yangtze : June 2006 --; title: A horse of a different color : Kyrgyzstan, July 2006 --; title: Sweet-and-sour children and twice-fried parents to go : Hong Kong, December 2007 --; title: The big stick, or Why I voted for John McCain : USS Theodore Roosevelt, April 2008 --; title: White man speak with forked tongue : the Field Museum, Chicago, May 2008 --; title: The decline and fall of tomorrow : Disneyland, June 2008 --; title: A journey to-- let's not go there : Summer 2008 --; title: The seventy-two-hour Afghan expert : Kabul, July 2010 --; title: Capital gains : Washington, D.C., August 2010 --; title: Home unalone : New Hampshire, March 2011.