Here and There Collected Travel Writing

Name: Here and There Collected Travel Writing
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ISBN: 9781742701622

ISBN-10: 1742701620

ISBN-13: 9781742701622

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Authors: A. A. Gill

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From acclaimed writer AA Gill comes this collection of travel pieces selected from his monthly column in Australian Gourmet Traveller - 'AA Gill is away'. Witty, acerbic and often moving, these pieces are far from standard travel writing fare. Touching on tourism, airports, world cuisine and countries including Madagascar, Iceland and Albania, Gill's perspective is often controversial and always unique. He ponders Italy's ability to turn organised crime into a tourist attraction, stumbles upon lobster-shaped coffins in Ghana, contemplates the Darwinian drive of bastardised dishes around the globe, explains why Johannesburg is the luckiest place in the unluckiest continent and considers the…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Publication date: 5/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.06" wide x 8.00" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

A. A. Gill is probably the most read columnist in Britain. Every weekend he entertains readers of the Sunday Times with his biting observations on television and his unsparing, deeply knowledgeable restaurant reviews, which have been published as Paper View and Table Talk. He has written three books on travel: A. A. Gill is Away, Previous Convictions and A. A. Gill is Further Away, as well as two novels, and full-length studies of England, The Angry Island, and America, The Golden Door.