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 traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates “The Contents of Some Travelers’ Bags” and exposes “Writers Who Wrote about Places They Never Visited”; tracks extreme journeys...

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 traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates “The Contents of Some Travelers’ Bags” and exposes “Writers Who Wrote about Places They Never Visited”; tracks extreme journeys in “Travel as an Ordeal” and highlights some of “Travelers’ Favorite Places.” Excerpts from the best of Theroux’s own work are interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected:

Vladimir Nabokov J.R.R. Tolkien

Samuel Johnson Eudora Welty

Evelyn WaughIsak Dinesen

Charles Dickens James Baldwin

Henry David Thoreau Pico Iyer

Mark Twain Anton Chekhov

Bruce Chatwin John McPhee

Freya Stark Peter Matthiessen

Graham Greene Ernest Hemingway

The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.

保羅?索魯（Paul Theroux），1941年生，美國當代著名旅行文學(xué)作家，在全球各地游歷五十余年，作品以敏銳的洞察與犀利的筆鋒著稱，代表作包括《濱海王國》《老巴塔哥尼亞快車：從北美到南美的火車之旅》《大鐵路集市》《暗星薩伐旅》《旅行上癮者》等，曾獲得英國惠特布雷德文學(xué)獎、托馬斯?庫克旅行文學(xué)獎等。

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譯者：張蕓，北京大學(xué)德語語言文學(xué)學(xué)士，現(xiàn)旅居美國。自由譯者、撰稿人。譯有《遙望》《貓桌》《舞者》《管家》《飛越大西洋》《瑪利亞的自白》《圣徒與罪人》等。