
Wanderlust: Real Life Tales of Adventure and Ro
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A collection of stories of travel and adventure by some of the most feted travel writers of our time.'We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves,' Pico Iyer writes in his introduction. 'We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow down time and get taken in, and fall in love once more.'WANDERLUST consists of provocative and inspiring essays by writers who have contributed to the award-winning 'Wanderlust' website - writers such as Simon Winchester, Isabel Allende, Jan Morris, Pico Iyer, Carlos Fuentes and Peter Mayle.This is an intelligent and captivating anthology.
Author: Don George
Format: Paperback, 384 pages, 135mm x 216mm, 435 g
Published: 2001, Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom
Genre: Travel Writing
Description
A collection of stories of travel and adventure by some of the most feted travel writers of our time.'We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves,' Pico Iyer writes in his introduction. 'We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow down time and get taken in, and fall in love once more.'WANDERLUST consists of provocative and inspiring essays by writers who have contributed to the award-winning 'Wanderlust' website - writers such as Simon Winchester, Isabel Allende, Jan Morris, Pico Iyer, Carlos Fuentes and Peter Mayle.This is an intelligent and captivating anthology.

Wanderlust: Real Life Tales of Adventure and Ro