| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
317 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Contents |
Italian education / Karen Joy Fowler -- Into the fjord / Rebecca Dinerstein -- Alone in Iceland / Jane Smiley -- Discovering fear in Baja / Avi Duckor-Jones -- Awkward situations / Catherine Lacey -- My Mississippi / Porochista Khakpour -- Hunting nanda / DBC Pierre -- Swami sand castle / Francine Prose -- Kazakh flash mob 2050! / Christina Nichol -- And the world laughs with you / Stefan Merrill Block -- Nothing happened / Jack Livings -- Road to Riyadh / Dave Eggers -- Road to lost places / Fiona Kidman -- How I evaded arrest on a train platform (somewhere in the north of England) / M. J. Hyland -- Hotel whose name we're not going to mention in this story / Steven Hall -- Sleepless in Samoa / Mandy Sayer. |
| Summary |
"Join famous fiction writers and up-and-coming authors for this globe-trotting sequel of real-life travel tales. Settings for these true stories- by turns funny, poignant and occasionally unsettling- roam from Azerbaijan to Vietnam, via Iceland, India, Samoa, Scotland and beyond. |
| Subject |
Voyages and travels.
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Travel -- Anecdotes.
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Travelers' writings.
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Authors -- Travel -- Anecdotes.
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Authors -- Travel.
(OCoLC)fst00821727
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Travelers' writings. (OCoLC)fst01155719
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Voyages and travels. (OCoLC)fst01169308
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
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| Added Author |
George, Donald W., editor.
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| ISBN |
1743607490 (paperback) |
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9781743607497 (paperback) |
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