Author: Robyn Davidson
Publisher: Picador India
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 467
ISBN/UPC (if available): 033036863X
Description
Journeys is a provocatively different travel anthology. In its pages we encounter an astonishing assortment of people-at leisure, at war, in grand luxury and great discomfort, running away and coming home.
It is an invitation not just to visit the predictable destinations in the travel genre, but to explore the backroads of its varied terrain. From Simone de Behavior to Martin Luther King, from Buddha to van Gogh, Journeys hops over the self-imposed borders of travel writing to reveal our inner and outer worlds in a multitude of captivating voices.
EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS
Wonderfully rich and various
-THE TIMES
From the familiar to the exotic, the collection is a delight. Some of the pieces approach the sublime
- SPECTATOR
An anthology of fine travel writing, as full of wonder as such a collection could be… excellent, provocative
- INDEPENDENT
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PROLOGUE
The Life of the Buddha
ENGLAND
Ramblings in Cheapside
Notes on London at the End of the War
London
Shampooing; or Benefits resulting from the use of the Indian Medicated Vapor Bath
FRANCE
The Poetry and Prose of a Post-Impressionist
Marseilles
Early Travel Writings
The Temptation
Introduction to Mediterranean Food
In Memory of a Massacre of Churches
ITALY
The letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield: A selection
Jewish Travelers in the Middle Ages
Autobiography
Memoirs
The Dream
SPAIN
The Spanish Temper
Bullfighting
Earthly Delights
From the Henares to the Tajuna
Homage to Catalonia
SWEDEN
The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923
ICELAND
Letters from Iceland
GERMANY
Walking in Ice
The Human Race
THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Croatia
SLOVAKIA
Deambulatory Therapy
RUSSIA
The Private Diaries of Stendhal
A Writer’s Dairy Volume 1, 1873-1876
Voronezh
Nadezhda Mondelstam: A Visit
The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
An Artist’s Life
NORTH AMERICA
Kabloona: Among the Inuit
Harlem
A Letter from Birmingham Jail
This Boy’s Life
Silence
A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Butterflies and Late Loves
EL SALVADOR
In El Salvador
CUBA
Life in the Forest
ANTILLES
The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory
BRAZIL
The Moreira Cesar Expedition
A Trip to Vigia
SOUTHERN OCEAN
The Mirror of the Sea
ANTARCTICA
The Worst Journey in the World
NEW ZEALAND
The Maoris demonstrate their cannibalism on board the Resolution, Queen Charlotte Sound, South Island, November 1773
AUSTRALIA
Australia Twice Traversed
How We Fled when I Was a Girl
SOUTH EAST ASIA
Vietnam
On first Seeing a King bird of Paradise
The Principall Navigations, Voiage, Traffiques And Discoveries of the English Nation
The English Governess at the Siamese Court
JAPAN
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
AFRICA
The Bush
Discovery of the Victoria Falls
Travels in West Africa
The Ngong Farm
NORTH AFRIKA
The Unseen
The Oblivion Seekers
Cairo and the Plague
Flaubert to Louis Bouilhet
Letter to Sinuhe
ARABIA
On seeing the Ka’aba in Mecca’
On Language
Arabian Sands
Introduction to Travels in Arabia Deserta
ISRAEL
Hyena
MONGOLIA, CHINA, TIBET
The Gobi Desert
Mongolia!
Enlightened Vagabond
INDIA
The Village of the Dubes
Scent of India
Notes Mailed at Nagercoil
Delhi depopulated by the excesses of Sultan Town India
Letters from India
The Kyong
EPILOGUE
NASA-STS-84: Report # 01
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