Lonely Planet Better than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers (Lonely Planet Travel Literature)

by Bryce Courtenay (Author), Marina Lewycka (Author), Carol Birch (Author), Frances Mayes (Author), Lloyd Jones (Author), Don George (Author), Charles Finch (Author), Mark Dapin (Author), Arnold Zable (Author), M J Hyland (Author), Chris Pavone (Author), Charles Finch (Author), Frances Mayes (Author), Bryce Courtenay (Author), Lloyd Jones (Author), Chris Pavone (Author), Carol Birch (Author), Mark Dapin (Author), Marina Lewycka (Author), Dbc Pierre (Author), Don George (Author), Arnold Zable (Author), Aliya Whitely (Author), M J Hyland (Author), Steven Hall (Author), Alexander McCall Smith (Author), Pico Iyer (Author), Lloyd Jones (Author), Isabel Allende (Author), Joyce Carol Oates (Author), Sophie Cunningham (Author), Tom Carson (Author), Jan Morris (Author), Kurt Andersen (Author), Peter Matthiessen (Author), Joe Yogerst (Author), Keija Parssinen (Author), Tea Obreht (Author), Suzanne Joinson (Author), Steven Amsterdam (Author), Stephen Kelman (Author), Peter Ho Davies (Author), Nikki Gemmell (Author), Keri Hulme (Author), Stefan Merrill Block (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2017

  $9.59

  ...a brilliant collection of travel stories...threaded with great warmth, as readers are invited to travel in the company of these famous authors and experience their passions and revelations. BOOKSELLER + PUBLISHER

  We asked some of the world's most acclaimed fiction authors, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht and DBC Pierre, to describe their greatest non-fictional journeys. The 32 stories collected in Lonely Planet's Better than Fiction touch on everything from disorientation and revelation to disillusion and redemption.

  However, these real-life tales all share one common characteristic: a passion for the precious gift that travel confers, from its unexpected but inevitably enriching lessons about other peoples and places, to the truths it reveals about ourselves. By turns funny, poignant and thought-provoking, you'll be transported from Azerbaijan to Vietnam, via Iceland, India, Samoa, Scotland, Antarctica, Alaska, Argentina, Nicaragua, Rome, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and beyond.

  Edited by travel writer Don George.

  Also available:
  Lonely Planet Better than Fiction 2

  About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, on mobile, video and in 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more.

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