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 The Contents of Some Travelers Bags and exposes Writers Who Wrote about Places They Never Visited tracks extreme journeys in Travel as an Ordeal and highlights some of Travelers Favorite Places Excerpts from the best of Therouxs own work are interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpectedVladimir Nabokov JRR TolkienSamuel Johnson Eudora WeltyEvelyn WaughIsak DinesenCharles Dickens James BaldwinHenry David Thoreau Pico IyerMark Twain Anton ChekhovBruce Chatwin John McPheeFreya Stark Peter MatthiessenGraham Greene Ernest HemingwayThe Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.
