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The Condé Nast traveler book of unforgettable journeys : great writers on great places / edited and with an introduction by Klara Glowczewska.

New York : Penguin Books, 2007.

xii, 416 pages : map ; 21 cm

A collection of twenty-one travelogues by various writers, including Francine Prose, Russell Banks, Patricia Storage, Robert Hughes, and others, with each entry accompanied by travel tips for the featured destination.

Travel -- Literary collections.

Literature.

Glowczewska, Klara.

Book of unforgettable journeys

Condé Nast Traveler.

Rock around the clock (Czech Republic) / Francine Prose -- Haunted by beau and beauties (England) / Edna O'Brien -- Heaven's Gate (Ethiopia) / Pico Banks -- Primal dreams (Florida) / Russell Banks -- A country made for living (France) / Patricia Storace -- Sip it slow (Georgia) / Nik Cohn -- The secret lives of Athens (Greece) / Patricia Storace -- The haunted land (Hawaii) / Jan Morris -- Lost horizons (Himalayas) / Suketu Mehta -- The loneliest place on Earth (Iceland) / Pico Iyer -- Gods, kings, mystics, and mullahs (Iran) / James Truman -- The glory that was not Rome (Italy) / Robert Hughes -- Bella Capri (Italy/Capri) / Shirley Hazzard -- Treasures of the Popes (Vatican) / John Julius Norwich -- Eight ways of looking at a garden (Japan) / Nicole Krauss -- Jinn City (Jordan) / Edmund White -- Beauty and the beast (Philippines) / Simon Winchester -- The red Danube (Romania) / Gregor von Rezzori -- Portrait of the city as genius (Barcelona, Spain) / Robert Hughes -- Pilgrim's pride (Santiago, Spain) / William Dalrymple -- Where the wild things are (Tanzania) / Philip Gourevitch.

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