The author demonstrates his taste for the absurd by embarking on a series of bizarre international adventures--from driving the precarious roads of Naples to cruising at Berlin's erotic Kit Kat Club. Original.
Author: Doug Lansky
Publisher: Travelers' Tales Guides
ISBN: 1885211635
Category: Travel
Page: 257
View: 474
The author demonstrates his taste for the absurd by embarking on a series of bizarre international adventures--from driving the precarious roads of Naples to cruising at Berlin's erotic Kit Kat Club. Original.
ON THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure Edited by Doug Lansky ISBN 1-885-211-27-9 $ 12.95 LAST TROUT IN VENICE The Far - Flung ...
Author: Lucy McCauley
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1885211783
Category: Travel
Page: 431
View: 475
An updated collection of travel tales by such top writers as Gabriel Garcfa Mßrquez, Barbara Kingsolver, and Calvin Trillin portrays Spain as a land between two worlds and follows such themes as a midlife quest in Don Quixote's footsteps and a woman's dream to master the flamenco guitar. Reprint. (?)
VENICE LAST TROUT IN VENICE The Far - Flung Escapades of an Accidental Adventurer By Doug Lansky ISBN 1-885-211-63-5 $ 14.95 " Traveling with Doug Lansky ...
Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1609520750
Category: Travel
Page: 464
View: 586
The Road Within is a book of transformation, of lessons learned, maps drawn and burned, and spiritual blessings bestowed by that great and hard teacher -- travel. Learn what mystics and saints have always known -- that wondrous things await people who are in touch with themselves, with the world, and with God. Authors featured in this very different kind of travel book include Annie Dillard, Huston Smith, Natalie Goldberg, Andrew Harvey, Barry Lopez, and Bill Buford.
ON THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure Edited by Doug Lansky ISBN 1-885-211-27-9 $ 12.95 LAST TROUT IN VENICE The Far - Flung ...
Author: Jennifer Leo
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1885211929
Category: Humor
Page: 194
View: 978
A collection of humorous tales of travel adventures and misadventures by twenty-five contributors--including Anne Lamott, Ellen Degeneres, Sandra Tsing Loh, Sarah Vowell, and Cynthia Kaplan--ranges from being chased by a herd of African elephants to getting bitten by a goddess-possessd healer in Kathmandu. Original.
... Florence, & Venice Every Woman Should Go, Best Women's Travel Writing, ... Kin to the Wind, Kite Strings of the Southern Cross, Last Trout in Venice, ...
Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 9781609521189
Category: Travel
Page: 312
View: 247
The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11 is the latest in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisines and cultures. Includes winners from the annual Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing. Introduction by Rolf Potts In The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11, readers will: Piece together the puzzle of life in rural Cambodia Reawaken the joy of travel on a bus ride through Mexico Reexamine war memories with former soldiers in Vietnam Learn the ropes and the art of sailing with a "good captain" on the Pacific Find a true soul sister in the highlands of Ecuador Follow Vincent van Gogh's footsteps in France Survive (or not) a home invasion in Brazil...and much more
... Ghost Dance in Berlin, Guidebook Experiment, Kin to the Wind, Kite Strings of the Southern Cross, Last Trout in Venice, Marco Polo Didn't Go There, ...
Author: Michael Shapiro
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 9781609521776
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page:
View: 108
Creative people have a certain spark: a brightness in their eyes, an inquisitive way of looking at the world, a desire to make things. But that spark doesn’t reside solely in people you may view as creators. It’s in all of us. The Creative Spark is a collection of interviews with some of the most creative people of our time: musicians, authors, visual artists and chefs. These makers speak about what drives them, what helps them to see the world in fresh ways, and what inspires them turn their visions into art. During the past decade, Michael Shapiro has interviewed some of our brightest creative luminaries. Among the authors are Amy Tan, David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver, Pico Iyer, and Frances Mayes. His work as a music journalist has led to interviews with legends including Smokey Robinson, Lucinda Williams, Graham Nash, Lyle Lovett, Melissa Etheridge, Merle Haggard, and Jethro Tull bandleader Ian Anderson. And he’s spoken with creative masters in other field, such as director Francis Ford Coppola and comedian Joan Rivers. Yet it’s not simply that Shapiro has had access to so many supremely talented and creative people — it’s that he gets them to go deep. Moments into his conversation with Lucinda (her fans call her by her first name), she tells Shapiro about how decisions made about her mother’s funeral led to fissures in her family. From this achingly personal conversation, readers can glean fresh insights into why Lucinda has such a devoted following and why her songs open listeners’ hearts. There are people who you might not expect to find in this collection, such as explorer Jane Goodall, whose entire life has been a creative endeavor. Then there’s San Francisco Giants announcer Mike Krukow, who turns every broadcast into a work of art. And there are a couple of chefs, such as SingleThread’s Kyle Connaughton, who are transforming the way we approach fine dining. Unexpected revelations pop up in every chapter of The Creative Spark. Iowa folksinger Greg Brown isn’t a household name, but his fellow musicians revere his poetic compositions. Each chapter starts with a short biography of the creative person being profiled then segues into Q+A. This collection brings together some of the best-known artists of our time with others who may not be as famed but who have something important to say about living an artful life. The Creative Spark stands as a testament to human achievement, showing how creativity illuminates our world and how it resides in each and every one of us, just waiting to break out.
... Florence, & Venice Every Woman Should Go, Best Women's Travel Writing, ... Kite Strings of the Southern Cross, Last Trout in Venice, One Year Off, ...
Author: Jeff Greenwald
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 9781609520946
Category: Travel
Page: 224
View: 677
Jeff Greenwald's classic travelogue follows his quest for the "perfect" Buddha statue. At turns hilarious and moving, his quest features a cast of amazing characters — from a passionate palmist to a flying lama — who provide unforgettable glimpses into the daily life and culture of the former kingdom (including a wild ride on Kathmandu’s very first escalator). Greenwald doesn't shy away from Shangri-la’s darker side. Along with colorful descriptions of Hindu and Buddhist mythology, the book tells of the rampant corruption, art smuggling, assassination attempts and human right abuses that would ignite Nepal’s violent "People Power" Revolution in April 1990. A new afterword by the author recounts Nepal's tumultuous recent history — including the massacre of the royal family — in vivid detail. And a new preface introduces this 25th anniversary edition with some thoughts about how Nepal, and travel writing, have evolved since the book’s first publication. Shopping for Buddhas remains a must-read for anyone who has visited, or plans to visit, Nepal.
... Florence, & Venice Every Woman Should Go, Best Women's Travel Writing, ... Kite Strings of the Southern Cross, Last Trout in Venice, One Year Off, ...
Author: David Bockino
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 9781609520939
Category: Travel
Page: 350
View: 451
Our modern day, multimedia, information-obsessed culture has fundamentally altered much of what we do day-to-day. The way we shop and pay bills. The way we communicate. The way we research, study, and learn. In the realm of travel we have more tools than ever telling us where to go, how to get there, what it will look like, what to do, and why we should go in the first place. This proliferation of constantly updated data has changed the way we go about our journeys. But how? By tracing the evolution of the guidebook from pilgrim manuals and Baedeker’s books to Yelp reviews and Google Maps, David Bockino explores the effects this information growth has had on the state of travel and adventure. Inspired by some of the world’s greatest explorers, he sets out guidebook-less to a destination he knows little about, launching an experiment to determine just how the guidebook and its digital descendants have transformed the nature of travel. The Guidebook Experiment is a call-to-action to conduct our own guidebook experiments, to disconnect from the ceaseless barrage of information in modern life and explore an unknown neighborhood or unfamiliar country and discover the joy of travel on our own.
... Florence, & Venice Every Woman Should Go, Best Women's Travel Writing, ... Kite Strings of the Southern Cross, Last Trout in Venice, One Year Off, ...
Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 9781609520885
Category: Travel
Page: 344
View: 339
The Best Travel Writing, Volume 10 is the latest in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisines and cultures. Includes winners from the annual Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing.
... Reverend Cecil 107–108 Wright , George Vincent 14-22 Yee , Chiang 109–115 , 200 , 217 , 257 VENICE 51 IRANT LAST TROUT IN VENICE The Far -.
Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1885211856
Category: History
Page: 496
View: 542
A compelling literary portrait of the great West Coast city includes contributions from Barnaby Conrad, Herbert Gold, Meredith Maran, Richard Rodriguez, and Chiang Yee, among others. Original.
ON THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure Edited by Doug Lansky ISBN 1-885-211-27-9 $ 12.95 LAST TROUT IN VENICE The Far - Flung ...
Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1885211767
Category: History
Page: 296
View: 710
A collection of travel stories across the Roof of the World shares its contributors' experiences of such subjects as an ancient sky burial, a Chinese movie set, a visit to the Potala Palace, and a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash. Original.
Author: Sophia Camille EricksonPublish On: 2018-08-28
... Florence, & Venice Every Woman Should Go, Best Women's Travel Writing, ... Kin to the Wind, Kite Strings of the Southern Cross, Last Trout in Venice, ...
Author: Sophia Camille Erickson
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 9781609521349
Category: Travel
Page: 163
View: 708
In 2014 Sophia Erickson graduated from college with an apparently useless degree in European history from an obscure foreign college. Faced with crippling student loan debts and after an anxious couple of months waiting tables in her small Massachusetts town, she decided to do something different and bought a one-way ticket to China. Over the following two years she had many amazing experiences, paid off nearly half her student loans, and visited China from Heilongjiang to Hainan, as well as Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore. She wrote The China Option: A Guide for Millennials: How to work, play, and find success in China to give Millennials a path to explore their future the way she explored her own in China. The book covers a wide range of topics from the concept of “face” to coffee culture to racism to love to LGBT issues, as well as all of the practicalities readers need to know to get in and get a job. The China Option is a manifesto for recent college grads to take control of paying off debt while living a stimulating, adventurous life and to pave a way for a successful future.
Doug Lansky, Last Trout in Venice during the few minutes that precede the race, a lot of talking ensues as they are at last able to make their deals.
Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1885211686
Category: Travel
Page: 222
View: 517
Essays by well-known travel writers--including Frances Mayes, Jan Morris, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, and Ferenc MßtT--guide readers through the beautiful, sun-baked hills of Tuscany in search of friendly locals, breathtaking scenery, scrumptious dining, and award-winning wine. Original.
LAST TROUT IN VENICE $14.95 The Far-Flung Escapades of an Accidental Adventurer By Doug Lansky "Traveling with Doug Lansky might result in a considerably ...
Author: Sheila Swan
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1932361154
Category: Travel
Page: 153
View: 225
A woman's guide to staying safe while traveling covers a wide range of topics and potentially treacherous situations, including how to identify scam artists, choose a safe travel companion, dress appropriately, find safe guides, and navigate hotel registration. Original.
LAST TROUT IN VENICE The Far - Flung Escapades of an Accidental Adventurer By Doug Lansky ISBN 1-885-211-63-5 $ 14.95 “ Traveling with Doug Lansky might ...
Author: Larry Habegger
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1885211996
Category: Travel
Page: 319
View: 543
A literary tour of Greece shares true accounts of such topics as the Oracle at Delphi's modern secrets and the ancient charms of a contemporary Athens neighborhood, in a collection that includes contributions by such writers as Paul Theroux, Patricia Storace, and Henry Miller. Original.
LAST TROUT IN VENICE $ 14.95 The Far - Flung Escapades of an Accidental Adventurer By Doug Lansky “ Traveling with Doug Lansky might result in a ...
Author: Annette Haddad
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1932361057
Category: Travel
Page: 409
View: 133
Filled with wonderfully astute, sensual, and sometimes disturbing observations of Brazil, this celebration of South America's largest country includes contributions from Joe Kane, Bill McKibben, Joe Kane, Diane Ackerman, Paul Rambali, and others. Original.
He is the author of Last Trout in Venice and Up the Amazon Without a Paddle, and penned a nationally syndicated travelhumour column in North America for ...
Author: Wickham Boyle
Publisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 9781760340414
Category: Travel
Page: 161
View: 984
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 Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
... Take Me With You, Last Trout in Venice, The Way of the Wanderer, One Year Off, The Fire Never Dies, The Royal Road to Romance, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, ...
Author: Sean O'Reilly
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 9781458725455
Category:
Page: 436
View: 993
This is the collection of the best travel writing of the year, much of it never published before, from big names in travel literature and emerging new writers. ''The Best Travel Writing 2009'' is the sixth volume in the annual ''travelers' Tales'' series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. Reading these stories is like sitting in a cafe filled with fellow travelers swapping tales about past adventures and ideas where to head next. This edition takes readers on a harrowing raft ride off the coast of Panama, on a whirlwind tour from Florence to Santorini, into the wilds of Patagonia, and to a colourful village in Ghana.
... 365 Travel, Adventures in Wine Footsteps Kite Strings of the Southern Cross, The Sword of Heaven, Storm, Take Me With You, Last Trout in Venice, ...
Author: Thom Elkjer
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1885211805
Category: Cooking
Page: 249
View: 802
A collection of writings on wines and vineyards from around the world covers such stories as a Parisian wine-connoisseur fiancT's homecoming to a beer-drinking Southern family and a late night in Chile where wine sampling leads to a tasty cultural celebration. Original.
... Take Me With You, Last Trout in Venice, The Way of the Wanderer, One Year Off, The Fire Never Dies, The Royal Road to Romance, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, ...
Author: Mikkel Aaland
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 9781609520076
Category: Travel
Page: 280
View: 619
“Any attempt at peace must be attended by a knowledge of self,” discovers writer and photographer Mikkel Aaland, who grew up with a bomb shelter for a bedroom, in terror of nuclear war. At the height of the Cold War, Aaland finds himself drawn into a mysterious Shinto priest’s plan to save the world. Traveling from Norway to the Philippines, Iceland to South Africa, he places pieces of a sacred Shinto sword in key power spots around the world. Along the way, he comes face to face with his deepest childhood fears of war and destruction, encounters the compelling and mysterious Shinto religion, struggles with the uncertainties of love, and learns to face life with an open heart. The Sword of Heaven tells the extraordinary true story of a journey in which all boundaries are pushed—geographical, cultural, and personal—and in which the healing of the world and the healing of one man appear to be inextricably linked.
