OxTravels: Meetings with remarkable travel writers (Ox Tales) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 184668496X ISBN 13: 9781846684968

Verlag: Profile Books, 2011

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If you have the slightest curiosity about the world beyond your living room, then this is a collection to die for. What could be a better way to raise funds for Oxfam than to collect these nuggets of worldly wisdom from a galaxy of the very best travel writers. It's impossible to read their contributions without wanting to go and get the rucksack out. (Michael Palin)

Captivating... a collection that is filled with memorable brilliance. (Peter Feely Real Travel 2011-04-01)

Inspiring (John Lewis Edition 2011-05-31)

A colourful suitcase of stories... will whip up your wanderlust. (Sainsbury's Magazine 2011-06-01)

A rare congregation of talent (Lonely Planet 2011-06-01)

This is a collection of sharp tales which take you straight to the point of a place...reading OxTravels is like landing somewhere you haven't been for a while and remembering how much you love the place... a reminder of how much I love travelling safely on the back of someone else's intimate words.... riveting... they leave you moved, long after you've stopped travelling (Sarah Barrell Independent on Sunday 2011-05-22)

Engaging (Sunday Times 2011-05-22)

This book proves that the form (travel writing) can still glow with life. Here is the heart of it, the ability of great travel writers to find magic in the most trying of trips... This book is a small empire of joy... a diamond...
By focusing on encounters, Ox Travels has reinvigorated the form... a serious collection.

(Ruaridh Nicoll Observer 2011-06-05)

These piece capture a character, culture or country with the rough flourish of a charcoal sketch... you can happily feel you're getting something worthwhile in return for your coins. OxTravels is easily digestible, not quickly forgotten. (Tom Hawker Wanderlust 2011-06-30)

An ideal holiday companion (Tom Robbins FT 2011-07-02)

Reseña del editor:

You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta's bestselling travel issue to find a book that compares to OxTravels. Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers, including Michael Palin, Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, and others. Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting - life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn - and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters.

This extraordinary collection is published in aid of Oxfam and all royalties from the book will support Oxfam's work.

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Profile Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 184668496X
• ISBN 13: 9781846684968
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
• Herausgeber: Ellingham Mark