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Better than fiction : true travel tales from great fiction writers / edited by Don George.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Melbourne ; Oakland, CA : Lonely Planet, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 320 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 1742205941
  • 9781742205946
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Contents:
Going south / Kurt Andersen -- Kind of blue / Sophie Cunningham -- Huaxi Watermill / Arnold Zable -- Shooting Pompeii / DBC Pierre -- The mountain mine / Carol Birch -- The tin can / Tom Carson -- Among Saudi sands / Keija Parssinen -- Quetzal / Frances Mayes -- Off the beaten track in Malawi / Marina Lewycka -- Adrift in the Solomon Islands / Mark Dapin -- Confessions of a coconut-soup eater / Steven Amsterdam -- Sudan : the Scarface Express / Joe Yogerst -- Chasing missionaries / Suzanne Joinson -- In bear trap canyon / Peter Mathiessen -- A tohunga with a promise to keep / Keri Hulme -- Death trip / Peter Ho Davies -- A visit to San Quentin / Joyce Carol Oates -- On my way home / Lloyd Jones -- You, me and the sea / Steven Hall -- The Fairbanks Shakespeare Camp / Stefan Merrill Block -- When things make no sense / Pico Iyer -- The way to Hav / Jan Morris -- A tango with Freud / Alexander McCall Smith -- Getting travel dirt under your fingernails / Bryce Courtney -- A small world after all / Charles Finch -- The thieves of Rome / M.J. Hyland -- Arriving in Luxembourg / Chris Pavone -- Mumbai : before the monsoon / Stephen Kelman -- An Alpine escape / Aliya Whitely -- Who wants a girl? / Isabel Allende -- Into unknown climes / Nikki Gemmell -- Nuestro pueblo / Tea Obreht.
Summary: "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.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 910.4 B565 Available 33111007040666
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*

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, Tea Obreht and DBC Pierre.

Exhilaratingly varied in place, plot, and voice, these tales all share one common characteristic: They manifest a passion for the precious gifts that travel confers, from its unexpected but inevitably enriching lessons about other peoples and places to the truths - sometimes uncomfortable but always enlarging - it reveals about ourselves.

"...a brilliant collection of travel stories...threaded with great warmth, as readers are invited to travel in the company of these famous authors and experience their passions and revelations." BOOKSELLER + PUBLISHER

Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet

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Going south / Kurt Andersen -- Kind of blue / Sophie Cunningham -- Huaxi Watermill / Arnold Zable -- Shooting Pompeii / DBC Pierre -- The mountain mine / Carol Birch -- The tin can / Tom Carson -- Among Saudi sands / Keija Parssinen -- Quetzal / Frances Mayes -- Off the beaten track in Malawi / Marina Lewycka -- Adrift in the Solomon Islands / Mark Dapin -- Confessions of a coconut-soup eater / Steven Amsterdam -- Sudan : the Scarface Express / Joe Yogerst -- Chasing missionaries / Suzanne Joinson -- In bear trap canyon / Peter Mathiessen -- A tohunga with a promise to keep / Keri Hulme -- Death trip / Peter Ho Davies -- A visit to San Quentin / Joyce Carol Oates -- On my way home / Lloyd Jones -- You, me and the sea / Steven Hall -- The Fairbanks Shakespeare Camp / Stefan Merrill Block -- When things make no sense / Pico Iyer -- The way to Hav / Jan Morris -- A tango with Freud / Alexander McCall Smith -- Getting travel dirt under your fingernails / Bryce Courtney -- A small world after all / Charles Finch -- The thieves of Rome / M.J. Hyland -- Arriving in Luxembourg / Chris Pavone -- Mumbai : before the monsoon / Stephen Kelman -- An Alpine escape / Aliya Whitely -- Who wants a girl? / Isabel Allende -- Into unknown climes / Nikki Gemmell -- Nuestro pueblo / Tea Obreht.

"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.

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