€œA book to be plundered and raided.€ €"
New York Times Book Review€œA portal into a world of timeless travel literature curated by one of the greatest travel writers of our day.€ €"
USA TodayPaul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe in this collection of the best writing from the books that have shaped him as a reader and a traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence,
The Tao of Travel contains excerpts from the best of Theroux€s own work interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected:
Vladimir Nabokov     Eudora Welty
Evelyn Waugh      James Baldwin
Charles Dickens      Pico Iyer
Henry David Thoreau     Anton Chekhov
Mark Twain     John McPhee
Freya Stark     Ernest Hemingway
Graham Greene     and many others
€œDazzling . . . Like someone panning for gold, Theroux reread hundreds of travel classics and modern works, shaking out the nuggets.€ €"
San Francisco Chronicle
