Lonely Planet Tales from Nowhere

By Don George

Book Overview

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*

Unexpected stories from unexpected places.

Many places can feel like nowhere: a desert, an isolated village, even the middle of a bustling, impersonal city. And then something happens: an adventure, a revelation, an experience that changes the whole landscape. The discovery that every place is the centre of the world to somebody and has its own riches and wonders. The authors of these 30 real-life tales find passion, surprise and illumination in the middle of Borneo or Beijing, in a Mayan mountain village, along a timeworn trail in Tuscany, on an isolated South Pacific island, or under a desert moon in Mali.

These richly varied stories all celebrate and illuminate one simple truth: if we embark on each adventure with an open heart and an open mind, travel will take us places we never planned to go, and enrich and enlighten us in ways we never otherwise would have known.

Featuring stories by: Anthony Sattin, Danny Wallace, Jason Elliot, Pam Houston, Ralph Potts, Pico Iyer, Tim Cahill, Simon Winchester

About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.

TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times

'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)

*#1 in the world market share - source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178657621X
• ISBN13: 9781786576217
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

great book

This book gives nice short descriptions of lots of exciting places. It either inspires you to go, or, if you're lucky, awakens memories of exciting places you've been to yourself already!

Pack This Along

You will visit far-flung places and some not-so with really interesting folk as your guide. The writing is consistantly high caliber and the tales descriptive, adventurous, engaging, enlightening, exciting, funny, warm-hearted and thought-provoking. The best verge on poetry and rival the best literature. What's great about this book is its accessiblity. Each story is short enough to finish within a few minutes which makes it a perfect take-along read. Perhaps on a journey of your own.

Very well selected stories - beautiful book

I bought this book in an overprized Amsterdam bookstore and was actually quite skeptical if it was worth the investment. After all, who wants to pay for blog-like stories printed on paperback? It was worth every cent. The stories are very well selected. One can only imagine the amount of travel tales the editors must have gone through before finding these outstanding pieces of travel writing. The stories - as you would expect from a Lonely Planet publication - come from the most bizarre corners of the globe, but it is not the exotic places but the interactions with the people that make this book special. Some of the stories resonate for days after putting down the book. The story of the guy who tries to write a book on SARS in China, travelling the country without finding much, and in the end loses everything almost has a Franz Kafka feeling about it. This book is a screaming buy. Go and get it.