Abroad: Travel Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few pleasures rival the vicarious thrill of travelling the world through the eyes of a master storyteller — and Abroad: Travel Stories gathers the finest of such journeys into one indispensable volume. Selected by poet, critic, and literary editor Alan Ross, this anthology assembles a rich company of writers whose tales sweep the reader from sun-scorched Mediterranean coastlines to remote and rain-soaked corners of the globe, each story a portrait of place as much as of the human spirit navigating it. Ross, long celebrated for his editorial acuity as editor of the legendary London Magazine, brings the same discerning eye to this collection that defined his decades of championing world-class literature. The selections span a broad tonal spectrum — by turns lyrical, comic, melancholic, and awe-struck — yet share an insistence that travel is never merely movement through geography, but a transformation of the self. Whether the destination is familiar or utterly foreign, each story leaves the reader with the nagging, irresistible conviction that the next great journey is already overdue.
Author: Alan Ross
Format: Hardback
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few pleasures rival the vicarious thrill of travelling the world through the eyes of a master storyteller — and Abroad: Travel Stories gathers the finest of such journeys into one indispensable volume. Selected by poet, critic, and literary editor Alan Ross, this anthology assembles a rich company of writers whose tales sweep the reader from sun-scorched Mediterranean coastlines to remote and rain-soaked corners of the globe, each story a portrait of place as much as of the human spirit navigating it. Ross, long celebrated for his editorial acuity as editor of the legendary London Magazine, brings the same discerning eye to this collection that defined his decades of championing world-class literature. The selections span a broad tonal spectrum — by turns lyrical, comic, melancholic, and awe-struck — yet share an insistence that travel is never merely movement through geography, but a transformation of the self. Whether the destination is familiar or utterly foreign, each story leaves the reader with the nagging, irresistible conviction that the next great journey is already overdue.