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TRAVEL: THE GUIDE an insightful, irreverent, and highly visual new take on travel that will challenge readers to rethink the way they look at travel and how they interact with the world around them. You might think of it like an inspiring TED Talk on travel that you flip through yourself. Jason Cochran, author and editor for Frommer's guides, described it this way: "It's not really just about travel. It's about exploding every stereotype, fear, and expectation you have about the rest of the world and your place in it. Once you start flipping through, you'll be consuming little knowledge bombs like potato chips. Good luck stopping. And good luck seeing things the same way ever again." Mike Carter, a contributor to The Observer and The Guardian wrote: "Turns on its head just about everything we thought we knew about how to get the best out of our travels, gloriously debunking the myths and exposing the clichés along the way."
Travel: The Guide, by Doug Lansky- Amazon Sales Rank: #7243800 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.00" h x .46" w x 7.99" l, 1.18 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 276 pages
Review "Visually stunning and visually unsettling, stuffed with humor and wisdom and remarkable insight, this book will change the way you see the world." -Michael Finkel, Writer, National Geographic Magazine"Lansky's book has all the qualities of a successful trip: It's eye-opening, unexpected, gorgeous, and pleasurable. Also free from gastrointestinal difficulties." - AJ Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically"An entertaining and important book that should spark a vital debate about travel." - Kieran Meeke, Editor-in-Chief, TRVL"Travel: The Guide is unlike anything you'll ever read. It's what The Daily Show would do if it covered tourism." - Larry Bleiberg, travel writer "Lansky's book has all the qualities of a successful trip: It's eye-opening, unexpected, gorgeous, and pleasurable. Also free from gastrointestinal difficulties." - AJ Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically"Doug tries to work out what travel is really all about. Who knows, his ideas may just be right."- Tony Wheeler, founder, Lonely Planet
From the Author I started playing with the rough idea for this book 10 years ago. I continued piecing it together it, on and off, a little each year when I was inspired to do so. A year back, I dedicated myself to finishing it and now that it's done, I couldn't be more happy with the result. In the last decade, I've penned some guide books, gift books, and funny sign books. It's nice to have publishers request material (and pay for it) and keep you busy, but I can't say I was passionate about any of it. This is the book I am passionate about. I received help and advice along the way, and am especially thankful two previous editors-in-chief of COLORS Magazine gave me some of their time. I contributed to COLORS many years ago and was inspired by that powerfully visual format -- perhaps the closest thing to the style in this book. So, if you're familiar with COLORS and liked it, I think it's safe to say you'll enjoy this book as well. I've long tried to persuade travel editors that it's possible to make travel writing interesting without using the classic formulas that get so many clicks ("3 perfect days in Rome", "Top 10 cheap hotels in New York", "How I rediscovered myself on a weeklong trip to a Caribbean Spa", "How to book a cheap flight/hotel", "following in the footsteps of this historical person you've never heard of," etc.) There's this odd unspoken aspect of travel writing that it's supposed to try to convince the reader to go someplace. Sell, sell, sell. I must admit, I never quite understood the entertainment value of that. I read Lonely Planet's 2004 coffee table book called The Travel Book, which went on to become an international bestseller. Like many, I wanted to see what the fuss was about, so I picked up a copy. As I flipped through it, I was impressed by the photography but I couldn't help thinking that it felt like a $25 collection of brochures. I know it was supposed to be inspirational and help with some trip ideas and so forth, but it just felt like a missed opportunity to say something deeper than "Here are some pretty countries you can travel to." I suppose it did inspire me, but not to travel. I wanted to create a book that packed a visual punch, but approached travel from a less conventional viewpoint. It seemed that betweenThe Travel Book and Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel, there was plenty of fertile ground to try something different. I'm a fan of TED Talks... well, the good ones. I like the notion that, no matter the topic, it's fun to have your ideas challenged, to be shown a new way of looking at something. I hope TRAVEL: THE GUIDE achieves this lofty goal.
About the Author Doug Lansky, a writer and a traveler, has chronicled his travels around the world in his hilarious and vividly descriptive column, "The Vagabond." His travels have included cruising up the Amazon on a cargo ship, living and blowgun hunting with Jaguar Indians in Peru, buying a horse and riding it to Colombia, hitchhiking through Syria and Jordan, where he befriended sergeants in the Iraqi military, riding a camel across the desert in India, and sailing down the Nile. Doug's articles have appeared in "Spy" and "Might" magazines as well as in numerous major U.S. daily newspapers. He is also the co-author of "How to Survive High School with Minimal Brain Damage," published when Doug was just sixteen years old.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Adbusters-meets-The Daily Show-meets-Ted Talk--with an oxygen mask By Matthew Anderson This is a superbly crafted, provocative manifesto--for that is what it is, in many ways: a revolt against the anomie of mass travel in a world flattened by the logic of consumption. Lansky has something to say, and he says it with exceptional clarity. He works less with language than with a visual vocabulary and syntax that key images to a sequence of questions, each a koan unto itself, a goad to critical thinking and self-examination. He has been traveling and thinking about travel and writing about travel for over twenty years. This volume represents the distillate of two decades reflection, a synopsis of a kind of critical anthropology of the ideas, practices, imagination, and patterns of consumption of middle to upper-middle class members of North Atlantic civilization when they hit the road. It also marks a move on his part toward engagement. Lansky describes what travel now looks like (it's not pretty), what it might yet be, and where we might turn for clues to a way out of the daze of false consciousness. (The chapter on how some disabled people experience travel is particularly thought-provoking in this regard.) His mode is insightful, focused, alive to its own ironies, and buoyed by the vigorous wit and intelligence of his comedic gifts. The juxtapositions of images remind me of Adbusters; the tone reminds me of the Daily Show; and the arc and economy of the framework remind me of a Ted Talk. That's pretty good company.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A fresh perspective By Random Buyer I thoroughly enjoyed this book, not only because of the great graphics and sometimes hilarious photos that really puts the notion of what travelling is in a new fresh perspective, but also of the angles from which travelling is illuminated and which really makes you stop and think. I don't want to give away any of the sudden insights I (at least) got while reading this book, but if I have to name a favourite chapter, it would be the one about disabled travelling or travelling with special equipment. A must read if you are even remotely interested in travelling!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Thought provoking - read this book, it will change your travel experience! By MP Tiffin I hope many people read this book and think about what is important and why they are traveling.Full of fantastic, humorous pictures that force you to think about our travel behaviour and some of the crazy things that we do.I would highly recommend this fun book, and I have no doubt it will improve your next travel experience!
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