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The Tao of Travel - Paul Theroux

By Paul Theroux

Release Date: 2025-12-16

Genre: Travel & Adventure

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Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates ā€œThe Contents of Some Travelersā€™ Bagsā€ and exposes ā€œWriters Who Wrote about Places They Never Visitedā€; tracks extreme journeys in ā€œTravel as an Ordealā€ and highlights some of ā€œTravelersā€™ Favorite Places.ā€ Excerpts from the best of Therouxā€™s own work are interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected: 

Vladimir Nabokov           J.R.R. Tolkien 
Samuel Johnson               Eudora Welty
Evelyn Waugh                  Isak Dinesen 
Charles Dickens               James Baldwin 
Henry David Thoreau       Pico Iyer 
Mark Twain                     Anton Chekhov 
Bruce Chatwin                  John McPhee
Freya Stark                      Peter Matthiessen 
Graham Greene                Ernest Hemingway

 The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.

The Tao of Travel - Paul Theroux

By Paul Theroux

Release Date: 2025-12-16

Genre: Travel & Adventure

(0 ratings)
Play Full Download
Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates ā€œThe Contents of Some Travelersā€™ Bagsā€ and exposes ā€œWriters Who Wrote about Places They Never Visitedā€; tracks extreme journeys in ā€œTravel as an Ordealā€ and highlights some of ā€œTravelersā€™ Favorite Places.ā€ Excerpts from the best of Therouxā€™s own work are interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected: 

Vladimir Nabokov           J.R.R. Tolkien 
Samuel Johnson               Eudora Welty
Evelyn Waugh                  Isak Dinesen 
Charles Dickens               James Baldwin 
Henry David Thoreau       Pico Iyer 
Mark Twain                     Anton Chekhov 
Bruce Chatwin                  John McPhee
Freya Stark                      Peter Matthiessen 
Graham Greene                Ernest Hemingway

 The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.

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