Oxtravels : meetings with remarkable travel writers /
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Imprint: | London : Profile Books, 2011. |
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Description: | 432 p. : ill., ports ; 20 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8518327 |
Summary: | Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers, including Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, Nicholas Shakespeare, Peter Godwin, Victoria Hislop, and others. Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting--life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn--and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters.<br> <br> This extraordinary collection is published in aid of Oxfam and all royalties from the book will support Oxfam's work around the world.<br> |
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Physical Description: | 432 p. : ill., ports ; 20 cm. |
ISBN: | 9781846684968 184668496X |