The Gift of Travel : The Best of Travelers' Tales (Travelers' Tales) - Softcover

Larry Sean O'Reilly Habegger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885211252 ISBN 13: 9781885211255

Publisher: Travelers' Tales, 1998

Synopsis

These stories, gathered from the editors' award-winning books in celebration of Travelers' Tales fifth year of publishing--reveal in simple and profound ways how travel is one of the best teachers anyone can have. One rarely returns from a trip unchanged, a point that is not lost on the authors of these wonderful true tales of life on the road.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Take a room full of peopleAartists, writers, educators, but travelers all. One volunteers, "Let me tell you about this great experience I had in the Canary Islands" and then proceeds to tell about being taken in by a family and treated like one of its members. Someone then describes a Tibetan picnic at 16,000 feet in a mountain pass, another relates being drenched with overripe tomatoes at a carnival in Spain. Others tell of travel experiences in France, the remote Chinese island of Hainan, and the Atlas Mountains in Morocco and of special people like a leper in Nepal and an idiosyncratic Thai language teacher. They also relate events like a bus ride in rural Mexico and an encounter with a wounded pelican near Malibu. These and other personal yet very arresting stories collected by Larry Habegger and James and Sean O'Reilly make for enjoyable reading. Recommended for public libraries and highly recommended for those that do not have any of the earlier editions of "Travelers' Tales."ADavid Schau, Kanawha Cty. P.L., Charleston, WV
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Travelers' Tales
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1885211252
• ISBN 13: 9781885211255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: James O'Reilly