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Title: Wanderlust : Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance by Don George ISBN: 0-679-78363-6 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: These People Really GET IT
Comment: "[I]f travel is like love, that is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity, and ready to be transformed."
So observes Pico Iyer at the end of his foreword to this magical collection, adding that the above is also the reason that "the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. "Anyone who has traveled at least a bit, who has loved at least once, or who is ready to be transformed should read this book. High praise is due Don George and Salon.com for gathering such a stirring and tantalizing collection of writings together: in forty short pieces not one dull or sappy note is struck.
For romance, the standouts of this collection are Maxine Rose Schur's "Passionate and Penniless in Paris," about the time she spent with her husband living in a van by the Quai de la Tournelle; Simon Winchester's "Romance in Romania" where the Rolls Royce he happens to be driving brings both him and a young Romanian girl into a beautiful moment that takes its romance from its very fleetingness; Iyer's own short, musical "Bewitched in Bali"; "Fade Into Blue," written in the third person by Amanda Jones; and most memorable of all, Laura Fraser's "Italian Affair," one of the most personal pieces in the book, but written completely in the second person (let's just say it begins with "Let's say your husband leaves you" and ends with her discovery of "la bella vita").
Notable for their adventurous qualities are Bill Belleville's "Looking for Mr. Watson" in the heart of the Florida Everglades; Don Meredith's relaxed brush with death in "Sleeping With Elephants"; Jeffrey Tayler's not-so-relaxed brush with death in "Lost in the Sahara"; editor Don George's surprising fear of climbing Half-Dome in Yosemite while watching his 8- and 10-year-old children scamper up like squirrels--he not afraid for them, he's jealous of them; and Susan Hack's humorous "Tampax Nightmares."
Of course romance and adventure are not mutually exclusive, and many of the stories here exhibit both. The writers of SALON.COM'S WANDERLUST convey the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and feel of the places they go--both externally and inside their own heads. The reader is transported to all seven continents and several states of being (drunk on absinthe, crashing a motorcycle while on heroin, eating the ambrosial sauces of the Memphis World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest). It will be hard to read just a quarter of these stories and not want to make your plane reservations, stuff a new notebook into your backpack and just go.
Rating: 5
Summary: Each story is better than the previous
Comment: I've been a fan of Salon.com for about a year, particularly their dearly departed Travel section. One or two of the stories in this book, I remembered reading from the online column, but they were surprising and entertaining in a second read. A book of short stories by various authors should be diverse and each story should be somewhat different, but still cohesive enough to hold together under a single theme. This book manages to do that excellently through it's theme of wanderlust. The concept of wanderlust, of desiring to go on a journey that puts you outside your everday life and opens your horizons, is thoroughly elucidated in this work. Reading this book will make you want to travel to distant lands. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 4
Summary: overloaded on European spots
Comment: No doubt this is a great compilation but too much on European destinations. Even so anything by Salon.com is going to be first-rate it's just disappointing the focus was not more on the Third World as there's always too much on Europe in this field anyway.
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Title: The Kindness of Strangers (Armchair Reading) by Don George, Dalai Lama ISBN: 1740595904 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Brief Encounters: stories of love, sex & travel by Michelle De Kretser ISBN: 0864425295 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel by Lisa Alpine, Jacqueline Butler, Lauren Cuthbert, Lynn Ferrin, Carla King ISBN: 0762723777 Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: A House Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad by Donald W. George, Anthony Sattin, Don George ISBN: 1740594193 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: Rite of Passage: Tales of Backpacking 'Round Europe by Lisa Johnson ISBN: 1740595939 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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