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Author Fraser, Keath.

Title Worst journeys : the Picador book of travel / [edited and with an introduction by] Keath Fraser
Published London : Picador, 1993

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Description xxii, 409 pages ; 20 cm
Contents Introduction -- Part one. The idea of a bad trip -- Advice to a traveller / Joseph Brodsky -- My worst journey / Jan Morris -- My worst journeys / George Woodcock -- A family vacation / David Mamet -- The second journey / William Trevor -- What bores whom? / Martha Gellhorn -- Balancing act / Edward Hoagland -- Part two. Writers and the fear of flying -- Night flight to Attiwapiskat / Paulette Jiles -- An unforgettable journey to Russia / Timothy Findley -- From Night train to Turkistan / Stuart Stevens -- Emergency landing / Martin Amis -- Part three. Writers as tourists -- Aboard the Alexander Pushkin / Janice Kulyk Keefer -- La folie Anglaise / Hugo Williams -- The farther we're from England / Alberto Manguel -- On the road again : the Australian outback, June 1956 / P.K. Page -- Frozen in Frøya / Anita Desai -- Running water / Rohinton Mistry -- From Iron & silk / Mark Salzman -- From Travels in hyperreality / Umberto Eco -- From Adult entertainment / John Metcalf -- From Is that it? / Bob Geldolf -- Venezuela for visitors / John Updike -- From Homesickness / Murray Bail -- Part four. Lucking out with a bad patch of road -- From Golden earth / Norman Lewis -- From Road to Katmandu / Patrick Marnham -- From Honkytonk gelato / Stephen Brook -- From Beyond forget / Mark Abley -- From Where nights are longest / Colin Thubron -- From The old Patagonian express / Paul Theroux -- From Nothing to declare / Mary Morris -- From Cut stones and crossroads / Ronald Wright -- From The fruit palace / Charles Nicholl -- From Old glory / Jonathan Raban -- From Rolling nowhere / Ted Conover -- Part five. Writers and the effects of war -- Postcard / Irving Layton -- From Backcloth / Dirk Bogarde -- From All the wrong places / James Fenton -- From Holidays in hell / P.J. O'Rourke -- The murder of Hué / Gavin Young -- A coup / Bruce Chatwin -- From The road to Abyei / John Ryle -- Return / Carolyn Forché -- From Under a sickle moon / Peregrine Hodson -- Part six. Classic questers in extremis -- When I sat down to play the piano / Al Purdy -- From Continental drift / Russell Banks -- From Waiting for the barbarians / J.M. Coetzee -- From The lawless roads / Graham Greene -- From Stranger in the forest / Eric Hansen -- From In trouble again / Redmon O'Hanlon -- From Arabian sands / Wilfred Thesiger -- From A desert dies / Michael Asher -- From A short walk in the Hindu kush / Eric Newby -- From The snow leopard / Peter Matthiessen -- The night of Lucia / John Mills -- Pillar of fire / Anne Michaels
Analysis English literature Special subjects Travel
Notes GB92-03520
Originally published: New York : Vintage Books, 1991
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Authors -- Travel.
Travel -- Literary collections.
Voyages and travels -- Anecdotes.
Voyages and travels.
Author Fraser, Keath.
LC no. 93172526
ISBN 0330321412
Other Titles Picador book of travel