The Tao of Travel

A book to be plundered and raided. -- <em>New York Times Book Review</em> <p/>A portal into a world of timeless travel literature curated by one of the greatest travel writers of our day. -- <em>USA Today</em> <p/>Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe in this collection of the best writing from the books that have shaped him as a reader and a traveler. Part philosophical guide part miscellany part reminiscence <em>The Tao of Travel </em>contains excerpts from the best of Theroux's own work interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected: <p/><em>Vladimir Nabokov Eudora Welty<br>Evelyn Waugh James Baldwin<br>Charles Dickens Pico Iyer<br>Henry David Thoreau Anton Chekhov<br>Mark Twain John McPhee<br>Freya Stark Ernest Hemingway<br>Graham Greene and many others</em><br>Dazzling . . . Like someone panning for gold Theroux reread hundreds of travel classics and modern works shaking out the nuggets. -- <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em>