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Laddar... The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road (2011)av Paul Theroux
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Traveller and travel writer Paul Theroux published The Tao of Travel in as less of a traditional travel book and more of a discourse on writing about travel and about the concept of travel itself. I did not expect this book to be a collection of quotations on the misery, loneliness, and joys of travel – really, on the paradox that travel necessarily brings to a traveller given the variety of sights in the world and people seeing the sights. He includes insightful observations from centuries of travelers, from people of all nationalities, all ages, and all socio-economic levels – from Marco Polo to the teenage girl who sailed around the world. One chapter discusses packing lists, from a crushed gown at the bottom of a woman’s rucksack to many, many trunks of gear for a couple weeks in the middle of nowhere. I read the chapter on ordeals sitting at the beach in the south of France, soaking up sun and having beer brought to my chair by a shirtless French guy. He tells about those travelers who have had stones thrown at them by the locals. He describes awful stomach issues and other sicknesses. An interesting book, unexpectedly enjoyable, and obviously a quick read with many, many quotations to be recorded and looked to later for inspiration, comfort, or a good laugh. This is, in general, a good book. I like the way in which he has excerpted and classified different authors and themes. What I like also, is the fact that there are lots and lots of marvellous quotes! So, it is good The snippets are interesting enough for the armchair traveller, and for one who wants inspiration before writing a travel book
Equally engaging are the author’s brief rumination on disgusting meals and how they tasted and his quick peek into the lives of the spouses, friends and lovers who went along for the ride as largely invisible sidekicks on some of history's great travel adventures. Alternatively pious and irreverent, this is an uneasy almanac of favorite quotes and advice for the would-be tourist that broadly features travel as a trope for personal enlightenment. Theroux himself says: “From an early age I longed to leave home and to keep going. I cannot imagine not traveling.” Here he comes home to his library and takes us on a journey around his favorite authors. Most books clearly belong on bookshelves, and some on coffee tables. Others are known in Britain as “loo books” — ideal companions for those sedentary moments of solitude. “The Tao of Travel,” part compendium of quotations, part miscellany of literary pondering, might be one of those. Yet it’s also a more philosophical undertaking than that might imply.
A collection of writings from Paul Theroux's fifty years of travel. Included are writings from other travelers such as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway and many others. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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"Es geht darum unterwegs zu sein: die Bedürfnisse und HIndernisse in unserem Leben etwas direkter zu spüren, sich aus dem Federbett der Zivilisation zu erheben und den Granit der Erde unter dem Fuß zu spüren, durchsetzt mit spitzen Feuersteinen."
Weitere Reisende, deren wesentliche Gefühle beim Reisen eingeflochten werden: Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Francis Galton, Freya Stark, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Evelyn Waugh, Paul Bowles.
Die Erinnerungen von Paul Theroux münden in sein Tao des Reisens:
1. Geh von zu Hause fort.
2. Geh allein.
3. Reise mit leichtem Gepäck.
4. Nimm eine Landkarte mit.
5. Reise über Land.
6. Überquere eine Staatsgrenze zu Fuß.
7. Führe Tagebuch
8. Lies einen Roman, der keinen Bezug zu dem Ort hat, wo du dich aufhältst.
9. Wenn du unbedingt ein Handy mitnehmen musst, benutze es so wenig wie möglich.
10. Finde einen Freund.
Diese Anthologie spiegelt die Lektüre und die Reisen eines ganzen Lebens wieder. "Doch das Verrückte ist, dass ich immer noch da bin, immer noch lese, immer noch reise, immer noch Zitate finde, die ich gerne aufnehmen würde." (Theroux) "Ich muss etwas tun, um mich aufzuwecken", so umschrieb Tschechow seine Reiselust - und das beste, was man davor tun könnte, wäre nach meinem Empfinden, dieses Buch zu lesen.
Wenn es möglich wäre, würde ich diesem Buch 10 Sterne geben: motivierend, spannend, lehrreich, hilfreich, anders, einzigartig, anerkennend. Geschrieben von einem echten Reisenden.
Für sich selbst, als perfektes Geschenk, vor einer oder nach einer Reise: diese Sammlung an Ideen und Gefühlen ist unbeschreiblich schön - z.B. über die Romantik des Schlafwagens: "Dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer".