| Description |
x, 310 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
Lonely planet |
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Lonely planet
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| Contents |
Home thoughts from Abroad -- A Home in Paradise -- The Alien Home, From the Global Soul -- Tiwarik and Kansulay, from Playiing with Water -- February, from A Year in Provence -- Festina Tarde (Make Haste Slowly), from Under the Tuscan Sun -- from City of Djinns -- from O come Ye Back to Ireland -- Digging Mr Benny's Dead Uncle -- Troppo Gentile, from Italian Neighbours -- At Home on the Seine -- Tenmangu, from Lost Japan -- from Dinner of Herbs -- A Co-op Building, from New york -- A House in the Casbah -- The Visit, from On Mexican Time -- The Year Brunetto II Piccolo Fell in Love, from La Bella Vita -- from Extra Virgin -- Waiting for juan, from a Parrot in the Pepper Tree -- Lataifa, From In an Antique Land -- Aloft in Paris -- Chinese Life, from River Town -- A Love-Scene after Work: Writing in the Tropics, from Sunrise with Seamonsters -- from A House in Corfu -- Barefoot at Shanzu -- Coming Home in Massachusetts |
| Summary |
Whether it's yearning to join a Mexican circus or settle in a rural village somewhere in a Mediterranean land, the dream of a pied a terre in an exotic locale is almost universal. This is a collection of true tales that demonstrate the perils and pleasures of forsaking the everyday for the unknown |
| Analysis |
Description and travel |
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Overseas item |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Travel -- Anecdotes.
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Authors -- Travel.
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Short stories.
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Voyages and travels.
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| Author |
Sattin, Anthony, editor
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| LC no. |
2003541599 |
| ISBN |
1740594193 |
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9781740594196 |
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