Lonely Planets Tales from Nowhere - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1741795206 ISBN 13: 9781741795202

Publisher: Lonely Planet, 2011

Synopsis

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*

Unexpected stories from unexpected places.

Many places can feel like nowhere: a desert, an isolated village, even the middle of a bustling, impersonal city. And then something happens: an adventure, a revelation, an experience that changes the whole landscape. The discovery that every place is the centre of the world to somebody and has its own riches and wonders. The authors of these 30 real-life tales find passion, surprise and illumination in the middle of Borneo or Beijing, in a Mayan mountain village, along a timeworn trail in Tuscany, on an isolated South Pacific island, or under a desert moon in Mali.

These richly varied stories all celebrate and illuminate one simple truth: if we embark on each adventure with an open heart and an open mind, travel will take us places we never planned to go, and enrich and enlighten us in ways we never otherwise would have known.

Featuring stories by: Anthony Sattin, Danny Wallace, Jason Elliot, Pam Houston, Ralph Potts, Pico Iyer, Tim Cahill, Simon Winchester

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.

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*#1 in the world market share - source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013

About this title

About the Author:

Don George is a legendary travel writer and editor who has won numerous awards for his work. He has been travel editor at the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle, founded and edited the Wanderlust section of Salon.com, and most recently was Global Travel Editor at Lonely Planet Publications. He is the author of&nbspThe Lonely Planet Guide to Travel Writing and the editor of six literary travel anthologies, including The Kindness of Strangers, Tales from Nowhere, and By the Seat of My Pants.

From Booklist:

Lonely Planet's annual anthology contains 30 thrilling and bizarre stories. In some of them, the authors intentionally traveled to "Nowhere" but experience unintended consequences. In others, the writers stumbled on "Nowhere" by accident and recounted the adventures that ensued. George writes in his introduction that regardless of specific setting, situation, or state of mind, what all these pieces share is "the quality of disorientedness." The locations range from Tuscany to Timbuktu, Antarctica to Yap, and from Equatorial Guinea to Pol Pot's toilet in Cambodia. Others include the Ottawa County Museum in Kansas (it looked like a glorified machine shed), South Georgia (so isolated that baby fur seals would follow humans like puppies), and Borneo, where there are only two destinations, upriver and down. The book offers readers a chance to travel to "Nowhere" without ever leaving home. George Cohen
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About this edition

• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1741795206
• ISBN 13: 9781741795202
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: George Don