The Tao of Travel

Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates “The Contents of Some Travelers’ Bags” and exposes “Writers Who Wrote about Places They Never Visited”; tracks extreme journeys...

Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates “The Contents of Some Travelers’ Bags” and exposes “Writers Who Wrote about Places They Never Visited”; tracks extreme journeys in “Travel as an Ordeal” and highlights some of “Travelers’ Favorite Places.” Excerpts from the best of Theroux’s own work are interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected:

Vladimir Nabokov J.R.R. Tolkien

Samuel Johnson Eudora Welty

Evelyn WaughIsak Dinesen

Charles Dickens James Baldwin

Henry David Thoreau Pico Iyer

Mark Twain Anton Chekhov

Bruce Chatwin John McPhee

Freya Stark Peter Matthiessen

Graham Greene Ernest Hemingway

The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and pains of travel in its golden age.

保罗•索鲁（Paul Theroux），1941年生，美国当代著名旅行文学作家，在全球各地游历五十余年，作品以敏锐的洞察与犀利的笔锋著称，代表作包括《滨海王国》《老巴塔哥尼亚快车：从北美到南美的火车之旅》《大铁路集市》《暗星萨伐旅》《旅行上瘾者》等，曾获得英国惠特布雷德文学奖、托马斯•库克旅行文学奖等。

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译者：张芸，北京大学德语语言文学学士，现旅居美国。自由译者、撰稿人。译有《遥望》《猫桌》《舞者》《管家》《飞越大西洋》《玛利亚的自白》《圣徒与罪人》等。