TY - BOOK AU - George,Donald W. TI - Better than fiction: true travel tales from great fiction writers SN - 1742205941 PY - 2012/// CY - Melbourne, Oakland, CA PB - Lonely Planet KW - Authors KW - Travel KW - Anecdotes KW - Travelers' writings KW - Voyages and travels N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -