Better than fiction : true travel tales from great fiction writers /
"A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Téa Obreht, DBC Pierre"--P. [4] of cover.
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Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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"A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Téa Obreht, DBC Pierre"--P. [4] of cover. |
Carrier Form: | 320 p. ; 20 cm. |
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9781742205946 (cloth) : 1742205941 |
CLC: | K919.2 |
Call Number: | K919.2/B565 |
Contents: |
Going south / Kind of blue / Huaxi Watermill / Shooting Pompeii / The mountain mine / The tin can / Among Saudi sands / Quetzal / Off the beaten track in Malawi / Adrift in the Solomon Islands / Confessions of a coconut-soup eater / Sudan : the Scarface Express / Chasing missionaries / In bear trap canyon / A tohunga with a prom |