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Paul Theroux remembers fifty years of roaming the world by accumulating the very best writing on journey in the books that formed him, like a tourist and a viewer. Part philosophical manual, part miscellany, part memory, The Tao of Journey enumerates “The Items of Some Travelers’ Bags” and reveals “Writers Who Authored about Locations They Never Visited”; monitors severe trips in “Travel being an Ordeal” and illustrates some of “Travelers’ Preferred Places.” Excerpts from the very best of Theroux’s own function are interspersed with choices from vacationers equally common and unexpected: Vladimir Nabokov           J.R.R. Tolkien Samuel Johnson               Eudora WeltyEvelyn Waugh                  Isak Dinesen Charles Dickens               Wayne Baldwin Henry Donald Thoreau       Pico Iyer Mark Twain                     Anton Chekhov Bruce Chatwin                  Steve McPheeFreya Stark                      Chris Matthiessen Graham Greene                Ernest Hemingway The Tao of Travel is just a special tribute to the problems and joys of travel in its golden-age.