Worst Journeys

by Keath Fraser

Experience -- at comfortable second-hand -- a selection of the worst journeys in the world, described by some of the best writers on travel in the world. Worst Journeys combines reportage, fiction and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0330321412
• ISBN13: 9780330321419
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: MacMillan
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great read

Probably the best way to outline this book is to show you the contents: THE IDEA OF A BAD TRIP Joseph Brodsky - Advice to a traveller Jan Morris - My worst journey George Woodcock - My worst Journeys David Mamet - A family vacation William Trevor - The second journey Martha Gellhorn - What bores whom? Edward Hoagland - Balancing act WRITERS AND THE FEAR OF FLYING Paulette Jiles - Night flight to Attiwapiskat Timothy Findley - An unforgettable journey to Russia Stuart Stevens - from Night Train to Turkistan Martin Amis - Emergency Landing WRITERS AS TOURISTS Janice Kulyk Keefer - Aboard the Alexander Pushkin Hugo Williams - La Folie Anglaise Alberto Manguel - The farther we're from England P.K.Page - On the road again: The Australian Outback, June 1956 Anita Desai - Frozen in Froya Rohinton Mistry - Running Water Umberto Eco - from Travels in Hyperreality John Metcalf - from Adult Entertainment Bob Geldorf - from Is That It? John Updike - Venezuela for Visitors Murray Bail - from Homesickness LUCKING OUT WITH A BAD PATCH OF ROAD Norman Lewis - from Golden Earth Patrick Marnham - from Road to Katmandu Stephen Brook - from Honkytonk Gelato Mark Abley - from Beyond Forget Colin Thurbon from Where Nights Are Longest Paul Theroux - from The Old Patagonian Mary Morris - from Nothing to Declare Ronald Wright - from Cut Stones and Crossroads Charles Nicholl - from The Fruit Palace Jonathan Raban - from Old Glory Ted Conover - from Rolling Nowhere WRITERS AND THE EFFECTS OF WAR Irving Layton - Postcard Dirk Bogarde - from Backcloth James Fenton - from All The Wrong Places P.J. O'Rourke - from Holidays in Hell Gavin Young - The Murder of Hue Bruce Chatwin - A Coup John Ryle - from The Road to Abyei Carolyn Forche - Return Peregrine Hodson - from Under a Sickle Moon CLASSIC QUESTERS IN EXTREMIS Al Purdy - When I Sat Down to Play the Piano Russel Banks - from Continental Drift J. M. Coetzee - from Waiting for the Barbarians Graham Greene - from The Lawless Roads Eric Hansen - from Strangers in the Forest Redmond O'Hanlon - from In Trouble Again Wilfred Asher - from A Desert Dies Eric Newby - from A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush Peter Matthiessen - from The Snow Leopard John Mills - The Night of Lucia Anne Michaels - Pillar of Fire

Assorted travel stories

I really love the travel stories in this book. Each writer uses the English language so well. I have had the book for about ten years and still go back and read a bit now and again. I think if one would like to be a travellor or a writer, this book would be a good companion.