Better than fiction : true travel tales from great fiction writers

A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Keri Hulme, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Téa Obreht and DBC Pierre. Exhilaratingly varied in place, plot, and voice, these tales all share one common characteristic: They manifest a passion for the precious gifts that travel confers, from its unexpected but inevitably enriching lessons about other peoples and places to the truths – sometimes uncomfortable but always enlarging – it reveals about ourselves. "... a brilliant collection of travel stories ... threaded with great warmth, as readers are invited to travel in the company of these famous authors and experience their passions and revelations." Bookseller+Publisher Going south -- Kurt Andersen Kind of blue -- Sophie Cunningham Huaxi Watermill -- Arnold Zable Shooting Pompeii -- DBC Pierre The mountain mine -- Carol Birch The tin can -- Tom Carson Among Saudi sands -- Keija Parssinen Quetzal -- Frances Mayes Off the beaten track in Malawi -- Marina Lewycka Adrift in the Solomon Islands -- Mark Dapin Confessions of a coconut-soup eater -- Steven Amsterdam Sudan : the Scarface Express -- Joe Yogerst Chasing missionaries -- Suzanne Joinson In bear trap canyon -- Peter Mathiessen A tohunga with a promise to keep -- Keri Hulme Death trip -- Peter Ho Davies A visit to San Quentin -- Joyce Carol Oates On my way home -- Lloyd Jones You, me and the sea -- Steven Hall The Fairbanks Shakespeare Camp -- Stefan Merrill Block When things make no sense -- Pico Iyer The way to Hav -- Jan Morris A tango with Freud -- Alexander McCall Smith Getting travel dirt under your fingernails -- Bryce Courtney A small world after all -- Charles Finch The thieves of Rome -- M.J. Hyland Arriving in Luxembourg -- Chris Pavone Mumbai : before the monsoon -- Stephen Kelman An Alpine escape -- Aliya Whitely Who wants a girl? -- Isabel Allende Into unknown climes -- Nikki Gemmell Nuestro pueblo -- Tea Obreht. From Lonely Planet, the world?s leading travel guide publisher, Better Than Fiction 2, the follow-up to 2012?s Better Than Fiction, is a second serving of true travel stories told by some of the world?s best fiction writers including Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley and Karen Joy Fowler. - An exciting new anthology of travel literature - Features international authors, including Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates and DBC Pierre - Brings to life the idea that travel can inspire, entertain, enlighten and change lives "A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Téa Obreht, DBC Pierre"--P. [4] of cover. "A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Téa Obreht, DBC Pierre"--Page 4 of cover

A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world’s best novelists, including: Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Téa Obreht, DBC Pierre

A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht and DBC Pierre.