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All Abroad - A Memoir of Travel and Obsession (Hardcover)
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All Abroad - A Memoir of Travel and Obsession (Hardcover)
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Yearning for an escape from a claustrophobic childhood, Geoffrey
Weill became infatuated with travel. At twenty-three, the budding
British connoisseur made his way across the Atlantic on an ocean
liner. The year was 1973, and he was bound for New York to pursue a
promising role as consultant-in-training at the headquarters of the
world's oldest travel agency, Thomas Cook. The idyllic trip was
reminiscent of those from the early twentieth century but made
distinctly modern by a nightly reminder-at the onboard dance club,
one was sure to run into a sequin-clad David Bowie. All Abroad is
the memoir of a man hungry for the logistics of travel: getting
there, staying there, and feeling at home on any continent. Woven
into his entertaining anecdotes is an informative account of a lost
era in travel. As a witness to compelling and monumental changes in
the industry, Weill offers a unique view into how our vacations
have been shaped deeply by human trends, tragedies, and
technologies. While some long for the grandeur of tourism from
decades ago, Weill insists that travel-the conveyances and hotels
that await journey's end-remains as glamorous as ever.
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