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Title:

Better than fiction 2 : true travel adventures from 30 great fiction writers / edited by Don George.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Lonely Planet,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

317 pages ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Voyages and travels.
Travel--Anecdotes.
Travelers' writings.
Authors--Travel--Anecdotes.

Other Authors:

George, Donald W.

Contents:

Sleepless in Samoa / Mandy Sayer. Into the fjord / Rebecca Dinerstein -- Alone in Iceland / Jane Smiley -- Discovering fear in Baja / Avi Dukor-Jones -- Awkward situations / Catherine Lacey -- My Mississippi / Porochista Khakpour -- Hunting nanda / DBC Pierre -- Swami sand castle / Francine Prose -- Kazakh flash mob 2050! / Christina Nichol -- And the world laughs with you / Stefan Merrill Block -- Nothing happened / Jack Livings -- Road to Riyadh / Dave Eggers -- Road to lost places / Fiona Kidman -- How I evaded arrest on a train platform (somewhere in the north of England) / M. J. Hyland -- Hotel whose name we're not going to mention in this story / Steven Hall -- Sleepless in Samoa / Mandy Sayer.

Summary:

"Join famous fiction writers and up-and-coming authors for this globe-trotting sequel of real-life travel tales. Settings for these true stories- by turns funny, poignant and occasionally unsettling- roam from Azerbaijan to Vietnam, via Iceland, India, Samoa, Scotland and beyond.

ISBN:

9781743607497
1743607490

Locations:

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

UGPF911 -- Indianola Public Library (Indianola)