Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe bycollecting the best writing on travel from the books that shapedhim, as a reader and a traveler. Part philosophical guide, partmiscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates “TheContents of Some Travelers’ Bags” and exposes “Writers Who Wroteabout Places They Never Visited”; tracks extreme journeys in“Travel as an Ordeal” and highlights some of “Travelers’ FavoritePlaces.” Excerpts from the best of Theroux’s own work areinterspersed with selections from travelers both familiar andunexpected: Vladimir Nabokov J.R.R. Tolkien Samuel Johnson Eudora Welty Evelyn Waugh Isak Dinesen Charles Dickens James Baldwin Henry David Thoreau Pico Iyer Mark Twain Anton Chekhov Bruce Chatwin John McPhee Freya Stark Peter Matthiessen Graham Greene Ernest Hemingway The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and painsof travel in its golden age.

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Experience the best of Montenegro with Lonely Planet.With our 1st edition you'll seek out a quiet Adriatic cove, raftyour way through plunging canyons on the Tara River and knock backshots of rakija with the locals. Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heartof every destination they visit. This edition is packed withaccurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you theinformation you need to make the most of your trip. In This Guide: Comprehensive practical information including public transportdetails Unique color chapter showcases Montenegro's rich culture andnatural attractions Local tour guides and experts reveal their must-see Montenegrinsights

Yemen is arguably the most fascinating and leastknown country in the Arab world. Classical geography described itas a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded incense groves.Medieval Arab visitors told of disappearing islands andmenstruating mountains. Our current ideas of this country at thesouthern tip of the Arabian Peninsula have been overrun by imagesof the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War-but there is another Arabia.Writing with an intimacy and a depth of knowledge gained throughthirteen years among the Yemenis, Mackintosh-Smith is a travelingcompanion of the best sort-erudite, witty, and eccentric. Crossingmountain, desert, ocean, and three millennia of history, he revealsa land that, in the words of a contemporary poet, has become thedictionary of its people. In Yemen: The Unknown Arabia wewitness the extraordinary in the ordinary. Yemen is a part ofArabia, but it is like no place on earth, and Yemen is abook in which every page is filled-like the land it describes-withthe marvelous.

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"Among the Believers" is V.S. Naipaul'sclassic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia,and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on thosejourneys, young men and women battling to regain the originalpurity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaoticworld. It is a uniquely valuable insight into modern Islam and thecomforting simplifications of religious fanaticism. 'This bookinvestigates the Islamic revolution and tries to understand thefundamentalist zeal that has gripped the young in Iran and otherMuslim countries ...He is a modern master' - "Sunday Times".'Beautifully written and almost impossible to put down' - AuberonWaugh. 'The edgy exactitude of Naipaul's writing is botheffortlessly classical and yet at the same time brilliantlycontemporary, as sharp and lucid as a spear of glass ...He isinimitable, truly great and truly deserving of the Nobel' - RobertMcCrum, "Observer". 'His level of perception is of the highest, andhis prose has become the perfect ins

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Insight's City Guide to Perth brings to life the biggest cityon Australia's beautiful western coast. Evocative accounts of thecity's history and culture combine with lively de*ions of themain attractions, all illustrated with full colour photographs.Colour maps throughout help you get around, and the travel tipsprovide all the planning information you'll need.

Already well-established in the fields of fashion, journalistic, and portrait photography in his native Berlin, Bernd Obermann moved to New York City in 1996 to experience the city’s vibrant mix of culture, ethnicity, and race. For the next five years he ventured out of his apartment nearly every day, camera in hand, to explore what New York had to offer. The results of these walks through city streets, parks, and neighborhoods are collected in this paean to a place whose energy and spirit are as palpable as they are memorable. "When I take a photograph of somebody I am also making a photo of a deeper level of myself." Says Obermann, "I believe in acceptance and not in analysis." From the Bronx to the Battery, from poor to rich, young to old, Obermann’s images reflect his own fascination and sense of discovery.

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One steamy morning in the summer of 1950, Mary and Frank Littell-with their two young sons in tow-left America for a small working-class town in the South of France, where they spent one hilarious, unforgettable year. Filled with fascinating details of expatriate life, French Impressions is a riveting account of their (mis)adventures abroad.

Packed with phrases on everything from bargaining at a rynok to hiking and eating out, this book will spice up yourUkrainian adventure. Whether bathing in culture or the Black Sea,speak the language and make your experiences unique. Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix ofpractical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages.Chat with the locals and discover their culture - a guaranteed wayto enrich your travel experience.

Nowhere else can so many cultures be found in such a tight spaceyou can wake up on the Mediterranean coast, have lunch in Paris andsee a show that night in London. Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Lonely PlanetWriter Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authorsvisit the places we write about, each and every edition. We neveraccept freebies for positive coverage, and you can rely on us totell it like we see it. Inside This Book 14 expert authors 13 mountain ranges crossed 6,354,782 sq km explored 73 local beers sampled Inspirational photos Clear, easy-to-use maps In-depth background Easy-to-read layout Comprehensive planning tools At-a-glance practical info

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In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of hismen came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russiannavigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition thatwould prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic huntinggrounds, Albanov's ship, the Saint Anna, was frozen fast in thepack ice of the treacherous Kara Sea-a misfortune grievouslycompounded by an incompetent commander, the absence of crucialnautical charts, insufficient fuel, and inadequate provisions thatleft the crew weak and debilitated by scurvy. For nearly a year and a half, the twenty-five men and onewoman aboard the Saint Anna endured terrible hardships and dangeras the icebound ship drifted helplessly north. Convinced that theSaint Anna would never free herself from the ice, Albanov andthirteen crewmen left the ship in January 1914, hauling makeshiftsledges and kayaks behind them across the frozen sea, hoping toreach the distant coast of Franz Josef Land. With only a shockinglyinaccurate map to g