Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers (Lonely Planet Travel Literature)

by Alexander McCall Smith, Kurt Andersen, Stefan Merrill Block, Bryce Courtenay, M.J. Hyland, Peter Matthiessen, Frances Mayes, Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht, and DBC Pierre

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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*

A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht and DBC Pierre.

Exhilaratingly varied in place, plot, and voice, these tales all share one common characteristic: They manifest a passion for the precious gifts that travel confers, from its unexpected but inevitably enriching lessons about other peoples and places to the truths - sometimes uncomfortable but always enlarging - it reveals about ourselves.

"...a brilliant collection of travel stories...threaded with great warmth, as readers are invited to travel in the company of these famous authors and experience their passions and revelations." BOOKSELLER + PUBLISHER

Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet

About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.

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  • ISBN10 1742205941
  • ISBN13 9781742205946
  • Publish Date 1 November 2012 (first published 1 October 2012)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 8 June 2021
  • Publish Country AU
  • Publisher Lonely Planet Publications Ltd
  • Imprint Lonely Planet Publications
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 320
  • Language English