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Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
Houghton Mifflin Company
May 2011
On Sale: May 19, 2011
304 pages ISBN: 0547336918 EAN: 9780547336916 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe
by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that
shaped him, as a reader and a traveler. Part philosophical
guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel
enumerates “The Contents of Some Travelers’ Bags” and
exposes “Writers Who Wrote about Places They Never Visited”;
tracks extreme journeys in “Travel as an Ordeal” and
highlights some of “Travelers’ Favorite Places.” Excerpts
from the best of Theroux’s own work are interspersed with
selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected: Vladimir Nabokov J.R.R. Tolkien
Samuel Johnson Eudora Welty
Evelyn Waugh Isak Dinesen
Charles Dickens James Baldwin
Henry David Thoreau Pico Iyer
Mark Twain Anton Chekhov
Bruce Chatwin John McPhee
Freya Stark Peter Matthiessen
Graham Greene Ernest Hemingway The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and
pains of travel in its golden age.
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