The Tao of Travel

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 traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates ´The Contents of Some Travellers´ Bags´ and exposes ´Writers Who Wrote About Places They Never Visited´; tracks extreme journeys in ´Travel As An Ordeal´ and highlights some of ´Travellers´ Favourite Places´. Excerpts from the best of Theroux´s own work are interspersed with selections from travellers both familiar and unexpected, including Vladimir Nabokov, Henry David Thoreau, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway and more. The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.