November 23rd, 2008 by alephnaught
Tales From Nowhere
- Title: Tales From Nowhere
- Author: Don George (editor)
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet (September 1, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1741045193
- ISBN-13: 978-1741045192
I saw this book in a travel bookstore in Burbank and figured it would be a good read for Italy. We put off our vacation (so we could spend the time searching for a new home). So, when it came time to pick the next book to read this one came to the top of my stack.
Apparently, the Lonely Planet commissions a collection of travel writing on a theme every year. This is a collection of 30 short travel articles by various writers that provides maps to nowhere; travel experiences that these people felt embodied nowhere for them. I can’t pick a favorite – all the stories were engaging, well crafted and led to various meanings of nowhere.
This is well worth a read if you’ve ever sat in an airport and gotten into a conversation with someone that seemed to make sense but in a very odd way, or have traveled to a third world country and experienced a feeling of being nowhere, sitting and staring.
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2:00 am on November 24th, 2008
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