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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher A collection of great travel writing by authors from around the globe, including original stories set in Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, Moldova, Tanzania, Austria and beyond, edited by long-term Lonely Planet collaborator Don George. The 35 impassioned stories included in this collection - of fortune tellers, tribal baboon hunters, a friendly Japanese family, and other notable characters - span a worldwide spectrum of themes, styles and settings, but all show how travel in its unexpected turns tests and teaches us, making us aware that we are resilient, that we are not alone, and that there is so much love and connection to be had if we open ourselves up. This collection affirms that if we follow the compass of the heart, we will always find our way. Whether you read the book on the road or in an armchair at home, these tales are sure to entertain, amuse and inform you, and resonate long after the book is finished. 'As you travel through these pages, may your mind be widened, your spirit enlivened, and your own path illuminated by these worldly word-journeys.' --Don George With sparkling contributions from some of the most acclaimed names in contemporary fiction and travel writing plus some new voices from around the world, including: Ann Patchett, Francine Prose, TC Boyle, Karen Joy Fowler, Pico Iyer, Torre DeRoche, Blane Bachelor, Rebecca Dinerstein, Jan Morris, Elizabeth George, Jane Hamilton, Alexander McCall Smith, Keija Parssinen, Mridu Khullar Relph, Yulia Denisyuk, Emily Koch, Carissa Kasper, Jessica Silber, Candace Rose Rardon, Marilyn Abildskov, Shannon Leone Fowler, Robin Cherry, Robert Twigger, Porochista Khakpour, Natalie Baszile, Suzy Joinson, Anthony Sattin, LH McMillin, Bridget Crocker, Maggie Downs, Bishwanath Ghosh, Jeff Greenwald, James Dorsey and Tahir Shah. 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, gift and lifestyle books and stationery, as well as an award-winning website, magazines, 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 they find themselves in. '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)

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Publié par	Lonely Planet
Date de parution	01 novembre 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781786576132
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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THE LONELY PLANET TRAVEL ANTHOLOGY
EDITED BY DON GEORGE
Published in 2016 by Lonely Planet Global Limited
CRN 554153
www.lonelyplanet.com
eISBN 9781786576132
© Lonely Planet 2016
Managing Director, Publishing Piers Pickard
Associate Publisher Robin Barton
Commissioning Editor Don George
Editor Karyn Noble
Art Direction & Design Dan Di Paolo
Typesetting Palimpsest Book Production
Cover design Hayley Warnham
eBook Production Craig Kilburn
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CONTENTS
Introduction – Don George
Long Distance – Torre DeRoche
Eight Hours in Bangkok – Blane Bachelor
Small Lights in Large Darkness – Rebecca Dinerstein
Eggs Is Done! – Jan Morris
This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm – Elizabeth George
On the Road to Material – Jane Hamilton
Journey 'Round a War – Alexander McCall Smith
A Scottish Lesson – Keija Parssinen
A Single Step – Mridu Khullar Relph
The Night is Young – Yulia Denisyuk
Deceleration – Emily Koch
Flight Path – Carissa Kasper
Into the Congo – Jessica Silber
The Whispering Lights of Lofoten – Candace Rose Rardon
In the Countryside – Marilyn Abildskov
Focus – Shannon Leone Fowler
A Ticket to Vienna – Ann Patchett
The Road to Oaxaca – Francine Prose
The Land of the Green Sheen – TC Boyle
Brave in Malaysia – Karen Joy Fowler
Moldovan Odyssey – Robin Cherry
Tracks in the Sand – Robert Twigger
An Iranian-American in Indonesia – Porochista Khakpour
Channeling Eudora – Natalie Baszile
Jasmine and Other Flowers That Make Me Cry – Suzanne Joinson
I Would Go – Anthony Sattin
The Guide – Laurie Hovell McMillin
Running the Subansiri – Bridget Crocker
At Home in Giza – Maggie Downs
A Cremation in Banaras – Bishwanath Ghosh
The Fool – Jeff Greenwald
The Man Who Told Futures – Pico Iyer
Hunting with the Hadzabe – James Dorsey
On Dream Mountain – Tahir Shah
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INTRODUCTION
BY DON GEORGE
This book represents two milestones for me: it’s the 10th literary anthology I’ve edited for Lonely Planet, and its publication marks my 40th year as a travel writer and editor. Contemplating these connected milestones as I complete this collection, I’ve realized that they share a fundamental truth: every LP anthology is a new journey, and just as with all my worldly journeys, each of these word-journeys teaches me something new and precious about the planet too.
To begin this year’s literary journey, I reached out to a wide range of celebrated essayists, novelists, mystery writers, journalists, and travel writers, asking if they would like to write about a travel experience that had exerted a particularly profound and lasting influence on their lives. Despite daunting deadlines and demanding schedules, two dozen of these responded with impassioned tales. Humbled and heartened by their enthusiastic response, I posted a call for submissions online, inviting writers around the world to submit tales of travels that had in some way changed their lives. I received hundreds of stories, many of them exceptionally eloquent and compelling.
From these rich pieces I composed the collection you hold in your hands: 34 stories representing a world-spanning spectrum of themes, styles and settings.
Some of these stories present youthful adventures that bestowed indelible lessons. On her first trip to the US, Jan Morris discovers the quintessence of America in a moment of Wisconsin wonder. Inspired by a cologne commercial, teenager Elizabeth George sojourns in Swinging London on a school program – and falls under the spell of a subject and setting that will become the focus of her life’s work. In his mid-twenties, Alexander McCall Smith tastes triumph and tragedy on an odyssey around a momentarily idyllic Ireland, and on her first trip overseas, Blane Bachelor courts disaster by turning an eight-hour airport layover into an innocent exploration of downtown Bangkok.
In some of these stories, travel sows the seeds of love, as it does for Ann Patchett when she misses a flight to Vienna, then puts her ticket to much better use one year later, and for Francine Prose in Oaxaca, where the theft of her family’s passports and plane tickets delivers an unexpected, life-threading reward. TC Boyle settles uneasily into an isolated Irish farmhouse for three and a half months, and unexpectedly makes lifelong friends. And Shannon Leone Fowler experiences love and loss of the most profound kind, as she and her boyfriend explore the far reaches of China – and each other.
Sometimes our travels confer unexpected connections. Suzanne Joinson is enchanted by the jasmine-scented mysteries and marvels of Damascus, Porochista Khakpour finds an unfamiliar sense of belonging on her first visit to Indonesia, Natalie Baszile follows her heart into the home of an unconventional Louisiana family, and James Michael Dorsey communes with his ancestors – and plays a crucial, unwitting role – on a hunting expedition with a Stone Age tribe in Tanzania.
Sometimes we are at a turning point in our lives when we travel, and our journey becomes both compass and balm: Mridu Khullar Relph conjures the resolve to overcome intimidation in Ghana, Carissa Kasper finds herself via sickness and salt flats in Bolivia, Maggie Downs unloads her grief with strangers-become-family in Egypt, and Bridget Crocker navigates uncharted waters – literally and emotionally – on a remote river in India.
And sometimes travel bestows endlessly rippling life-lessons, as it does for Jeff Greenwald tracking the divergent trails of love from Greece to Nepal to California; Pico Iyer trying to foresee the future in Kathmandu and Kyoto; and Tahir Shah following the teachings of a seed into the mountains of Morocco.
These are just some of the stories herein. All of the pieces in this extraordinary collection are equally moving and inspiring tales of life-changing adventures. I have felt honored and privileged to edit them, and I want to thank all the authors for their evocative, poignant and courageous contributions.

These days I spend much of my time teaching and speaking around the world, and one question I’m invariably asked is: what is the point of travel writing? I usually answer that, for me, travel writing is an attempt to record and share my experiences away from home – to evoke the cultures, landscapes, and people that I’ve encountered, and to share the challenges and revelations these encounters have bestowed.
But now, as I contemplate this collection of tales, I realize that even more fundamentally, the point of travel writing is simply to make sense of the world – the world outside and the world inside, and the sacred place where they intersect. Travel writing is an attempt to impose order and meaning on the chaos of experience, and in this, it taps deeply into the rich and ancient vein of human storytelling.
In this sense, the tales in this book hearken back to travel writing’s distant roots, but they also have great contemporary significance, for as the landscape of publishing has transformed over the past few years, some critics have predicted the death of travel writing, opining that vividly written and deeply reflected accounts would give way to superficial blog posts and insipid prose-selfies. As the stories collected here resonantly attest, great travel writing – transporting travel storytelling – is alive and well in 2016.
Another heartening gift I take from this collection is the illustration of how important travel is to our planet. It’s important to each of us as individuals. And it’s important to us collectively too.
Forty years ago, on a balmy spring night in Athens, I sat in the moonlight reflecting on the first of my own life-changing travel experiences: I had spent the year after college living in Paris and Athens, and traveling to Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, and Egypt; in a month I would leave for Kenya and Tanzania. I took out the tattered, wine-spattered journal that had accompanied me throughout these adventures and wrote, ‘These travels have expanded and enriched my world view more than I can comprehend. The more I travel, the more I see, the bigger the world becomes. And the more cultures and peoples I encounter, the more I am awed and fascinated by the incredibly intricate and beautiful tapestry of humanity that covers this small globe.’
I didn’t know then that I would become a travel writer, and that I would spend the next four decades of my life wandering the world and trying to make sense of my adventures. But now, looking back on that wide-eyed young man, I can see that the life-map I would follow was already being drawn.
Recently I sat in the California moonlight writing the introduction to an anthology of my own travel writing from the past 40 years. Reflecting on the meaning of travel for me, I wrote, ‘As I have learned over and over, travel teaches us about the vast and varied differences that enrich the global mosaic, in landscape, creation, custom, and belief, and abo