{"product_id":"tao-of-travel-enlightenments-from-lives-on-the-road","title":"Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePaul Theroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780547336916\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHoughton Mifflin Harcourt\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2011\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e285\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Tao of Travel\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Theroux's own work are interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVladimir Nabokov J.R.R. Tolkien \u003cbr\u003eSamuel Johnson Eudora Welty\u003cbr\u003eEvelyn Waugh Isak Dinesen \u003cbr\u003eCharles Dickens James Baldwin \u003cbr\u003eHenry David Thoreau Pico Iyer \u003cbr\u003eMark Twain Anton Chekhov \u003cbr\u003eBruce Chatwin John McPhee\u003cbr\u003eFreya Stark Peter Matthiessen \u003cbr\u003eGraham Greene Ernest Hemingway \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Tao of Travel\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road | Paul Theroux | Hardcover | 9780547336916 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks D 1742329","offer_id":48180066812056,"sku":"1742329","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71KxvPtwivS.jpg?v=1772208348","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/tao-of-travel-enlightenments-from-lives-on-the-road","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}