Travelers' Tales Thailand
Travelers' Tales Thailand

Author: James O'Reilly

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Published: 2009-11-01

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 1932361804

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Winner of the Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book, this newly designed collection paints a unique portrait of a complex and captivating land. One contributor lives as a monk for a month, gaining an inside look at monastic life. Another discovers Bangkok’s riverine pleasures, a world away from its car-choked streets. Yet another finds refuge as the houseguest of an isolated tribesman. Through these engaging personal stories, readers witness how Thailand satisfies just about any traveler’s hunger for the exotic, the beautiful, the thrillingly different. Writers include Pico Iyer, Norman Lewis, Diane Summers, Simon Winchester, Ian Buruma, Thalia Zepatos, and Tim Ward. “The breadth and color of the collective portrait [the contributors] provide of Thailand is remarkable.” — Los Angeles Times

Travelers' Tales Tibet
Travelers' Tales Tibet

Author: James O'Reilly

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781885211767

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Enjoy riveting tales by world-renowned writers about one of the most fascinating regions on Earth. One author witnesses an ancient sky burial; another works as an extra on a Chinese movie set; another visits Potala Palace, the home of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Illustrations.

America
America

Author: Fred Setterberg

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9781885211286

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A portrait of the nation through tales of travelers who have traversed the breadth and depth of America the beautiful.

Spain
Spain

Author: Lucy McCauley

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9781885211781

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What's it like to be there? "Travellers' Tales" gives the best possible answer through the true stories of other travelers. Journey into Spain with some of the world's best writers, and discover a country of heightened senses, bougainvillea blossoming in crimson and orange, and air pungent with sizzling olive oil. A sensuous journey into a land of mystery and beauty.

Travellers' Tales
Travellers' Tales

Author: Jon Bird

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-08

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1134912978

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Most of us, at various moments in our lives, either adopt a `tourist' identity of are framed within another's tourist experience. Travellers' Tales investigates the future for travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and critical discourses of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration; collecting and representing other cultures. Travellers' tales oscillate between the thrill of novel experiences and unexpected pleasures, and the alienation and loneliness of exile in a strange land. The contributions review recent work on the discourses of tourism, travel and cultural politics; the effects of global interactions and local resistances, and the ways in which records, memorials and signs have all been used to describe the experience of encountering the `other'.

Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Author: James O'Reilly

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9781885211033

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"We've collected useful and memorable stories to produce the kind of sampler we've always wanted to read before setting out. These stories will show you a spectrum of experiences to be had or avoided in Hong Kong"--Back cover

Travelers' Tales Central America
Travelers' Tales Central America

Author: Larry Habegger

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781885211743

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These stories of travel in Central America -- Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama -- are adventurous and quirky, sobering and enlightening. Readers visit a Panamanian island known for its wildlife; glimpse the wealthy Generation X repatriates of Nicaragua; and meet a charming Guatemalan revolutionary. Authors include Paul Theroux, Jennifer Harbury, Ronald Wright, Joan Didion, Randy Wayne White, and Rigoberta Menchu. Travelers' Tales Central America provides a new window into this astonishingly beautiful and complex part of the world. "For the thoughtful traveler, these books are an invaluable resource." -- Pico Iyer

Travelers' Tales Brazil
Travelers' Tales Brazil

Author: Annette Haddad

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9781932361056

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With stories ranging from delightful to funny to cautionary and inspiring, these tales about Brazil explore the many facets of the country--from the biggest freshwater fish and the rivers they live in to the world's largest jungle. Illustrations & maps.