My kind of place
Subtitle: travel stories from a woman who's been everywhere
By: Susan Orlean
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780679462934
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Travel
Description: Literary journalist Orlean has been called "a kind of latter-day Tocqueville." In this unconventional travel book, she conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois--and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality. Readers will climb Mt. Fuji; play ball with Cuba's Little Leaguers; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone's favorite whale (of "Free Willy" fame); stay awhile in Midland, Texas, a place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a New York City school so troubled it's known as "Horror High"; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the world.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Here; title: Lifelike [Springfield, IL]; title: A Place Called Midland [Midland, TX]; title: Beautiful Girls [Prattville, AL]; title: Party Line [Dimondale, MI]; title: Madame President [New York City, NY]; title: All Mixed Up [Queens, NY]; title: The Lady and the Tigers [Jackson, NJ]; title: Super-Duper [Miami, FL]; title: There; title: The Homesick Restaurant [Miami, FL, and Havana, Cuba]; title: Rough Diamonds [Havana, Cuba]; title: Carbonaro and Primavera [Cienfuegos, Cuba]; title: The Congo Sound [Paris, France]; title: Like Waters and Chocolate Pancakes [Heviz, Hungary]; title: Shooting Party [Biggar, Scotland]; title: Fertile Ground [Bhutan]; title: Do We Transcend Before or After We Purchase the Commemorative Eel Cakes? [Mount Fuji, Japan]; title: Game Plan [Sydney, Australia]; title: The Place to Disappear [Bangkok, Thailand]; title: Everywhere; title: Homewrecker; title: The World; title: Skymalling; title: We Just Up and Left; title: Art for Everybody; title: Intensive Care; title: Royalty; title: Uplifting; title: My Life: A Series of Performance Art Pieces; title: Shiftless Little Loafers; title: Where's Willy?; title: Shadow Memory.