The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road - Softcover

Theroux, Paul

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9780771086199: The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

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ISBN 10: 0771086199 ISBN 13: 9780771086199

Publisher: Emblem Editions, 2013

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This beautiful collection of travel wisdom is the perfect gift for any Theroux fan, and will equally delight seasoned travelers, young adventurers, and everyone in between.

Few have traveled more than Paul Theroux, and fewer have crafted the original, perceptive, and entertaining body of work that he has. The Tao of Travel is a departure for him: it's a gift book, a gorgeously illustrated and pithy distillation of quotes about the pleasures and perils of travel by Theroux himself, as well as many other travel writers he admires. Inspired by the number of readers who have asked him for his favourite travel book, Theroux has artfully selected over 1000 quotes, both historical and contemporary.
Whether it's modes of travel or the art of packing, loneliness or the unexpected kindnesses of strangers, unusual meals in weird places or encountering danger, The Tao of Travel contains a smorgasbord of delights for any travel junkie.

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From the Back Cover:

Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe in this collection of the best writing from the books that shaped him as a reader and traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel contains excerpts from the best of Theroux’s own work interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected:

Vladimir Nabokov
Eudora Welty
Evelyn Waugh
James Baldwin
Charles Dickens
Pico Iyer
Henry David Thoreau
Anton Chekhov
Mark Twain
John McPhee
Freya Stark
Ernest Hemingway
Graham Greene
and many others

PAUL THEROUX is the author of many highly acclaimed books, including Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and Dark Star Safari. He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod.

About the Author:

PAUL THEROUX is the bestselling author of many books on travel, including The Great Railway Bazaar, Dark Star Safari, and most recently, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star.
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