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 & Karen Joy Fowler Varied in place plot & voice these are stirring & evocative pieces that all share one common characteristic-they manifest a passion for the precious gift of travel from its unexpected but inevitably enriching lessons about other peoples & places to the truths sometimes uncomfortable but always enlarging it reveals about ourselves By turns comic dramatic & moving
- from Francine Prose's confrontation of the mysteries of India to DBC Pierre's search for Hemingway's muse in Italy
- these 30 short tales reveal the joys perils & surprises of travel & that truth can often be stranger (and better) than fiction Whether on a plane en route to your own travel adventure or at home settling in for a vicarious experience of world adventures embark on this literary journey around the world & explore your passion for travel now! Authors Lonely Planet Don George Dave Eggers Jane Smiley Karen Joy Fowler Stefan Merrill Block Francine Prose DBC Pierre Fiona Kidman Alexander Mc Call Smith Keija Parssinen MJ Hyland Catherine Lacey Rebecca Dinerstein Lloyd Jones Porochista Khakpour Jack Livings Marina Lewycka Lydia Millet Suzanne Joinson Sophie Cunningham Christina Nichol Mandy Sayer Steven Amsterdam Marie-Helene Bortino Shirley Streshinsky Steven Hall David Shafer Avi Duckor-Jones Lily King Aliya Whitely & Natalie Baszile About Lonely Planet Started in 1973 Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet as well as an award-winning website a suite of mobile & digital travel products & a dedicated traveller community Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world & to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in Lonely Planet's award-winning list travel literature anthologies include An Innocent Abroad (Independent Publishers Award Silver for Essays 2015) & A Fork in the Road (Lowell Thomas Award Bronze for Travel Book 2014; James Bear Award Nominated for Travel Fiction 2014) ' Lonely Planet It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands It's on mobile phones It's on the Internet It's everywhere & it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world' -- Fairfax Media ' Lonely Planet guides are quite simply like no other'
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