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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Humorous
tales of travel and misadventure. Lonely Planet knows that some of
life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take
the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures,
unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable encounters, they can give
birth to our most found travel lessons, and our most memorable -
and hilarious - travel stories. These 31 globegirdling tales that
run the gamut from close-encounter safaris to loss-of-face follies,
hair-raising rides to culture-leaping brides, eccentric expats to
mind-boggling repasts, wrong roads taken to agreements mistaken.
The collection brings together some of the world's most renowned
travellers and storytellers with previously unpublished writers.
Includes stories by Wickam Boyle, Tim Cahill, Joshua Clark, Sean
Condon, Chistopher R.Cox, David Downie, Holly Erikson, Bill Fink,
Don George, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Jeff Grenwald, Pico Iyer, Amanda
Jones, Kathie Kertesz, Doug Lansky, Alexander Ludwick, Linda
Watanabe McFerrin, Jan Morris, Brooke Neill, Rolf Potts, Laura
Resau, Michelle Richmond, Alana Semuels, Deborah Steg, Judy
Tierney, Edwin Tucker, Jeff Vize, Danny Wallace, Kelly Watton,
Simon Wichester, Michelle Witton About Lonely Planet: Started in
1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide
publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as
well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital
travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely
Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the
world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they
travel. TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner
in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite
simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on
everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on
mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's
telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' -
Fairfax Media (Australia) *#1 in the world market share - source:
Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*
Unexpected stories from unexpected places. Many places can feel
like nowhere: a desert, an isolated village, even the middle of a
bustling, impersonal city. And then something happens: an
adventure, a revelation, an experience that changes the whole
landscape. The discovery that every place is the centre of the
world to somebody and has its own riches and wonders. The authors
of these 30 real-life tales find passion, surprise and illumination
in the middle of Borneo or Beijing, in a Mayan mountain village,
along a timeworn trail in Tuscany, on an isolated South Pacific
island, or under a desert moon in Mali. These richly varied stories
all celebrate and illuminate one simple truth: if we embark on each
adventure with an open heart and an open mind, travel will take us
places we never planned to go, and enrich and enlighten us in ways
we never otherwise would have known. Featuring stories by: Anthony
Sattin, Danny Wallace, Jason Elliot, Pam Houston, Ralph Potts, Pico
Iyer, Tim Cahill, Simon Winchester About Lonely Planet: Started in
1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide
publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as
well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital
travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely
Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the
world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they
travel. TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner
in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite
simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on
everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on
mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's
telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' -
Fairfax Media (Australia) *#1 in the world market share - source:
Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013
In his latest collection of death-defying exploits and far-flung travels, Outside Magazine editor Tim Cahill visits the side of an active volcano in Ecuador, the Saharan salt mines and the largest toxic waste dump in the Western Hemisphere. He also ventures to find a Caspian tiger in Turkey and giant centipedes in the Congo. Cahill is one of the last great intrepid journalists, and his thirty wildly entertaining essays display sparkling wit and unstinting curiosity. When not on the move, he debunks hoary notions of the kindness of dolphins and ruminates on religion, death and the perplexing phenomenon of yoga. Charming, incisive and absolutely fearless, Cahill is the perfect travel companion.
In his latest tour of the earth's remote, exotic, and dismal places, the author of Road Fever and A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg sleeps with a grizzly bear, witnesses demonic possession in Bali, and survives a run-in with something called the Throne of Doom in Guatemala. Vivid and outrageously funny.
The author of A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg and Pecked to Death by Ducks gives new meaning to the words "going to extremes" in this exhilarating--and frequently hilarious--collection of adventure travel writing. "Cahill . . . (writes) with the precision ofJohn McPhee and Joan Didion tempered by a Monty Pythonesque sense of the absurd."--San Diego Union-Tribune.
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