Phi Phi Island, Thailand

The beauty of Phi Phi is a big part of the charm. The islands, as the boat approached, the rise in the sea like a fortress. General for the cliffs, then the way to beach-fronted jungle. E 'was love at first sight. Phi Phi Island is Thailand's island-superstar.

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Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer (Travelers' Tales Guides)

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Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer (Travelers' Tales Guides) Review

Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called “Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.” For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications as National Geographic Traveler, Salon.com, and The New York Times Magazine. This book documents his boldest, funniest, and most revealing journeys—from getting stranded without water in the Libyan desert, to crashing the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Thailand, to learning the secrets of Tantric sex in a dubious Indian ashram.

Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is more than just an entertaining journey into fascinating corners of the world. The book is a unique window into travel writing, with each chapter containing a “commentary track”—endnotes that reveal the ragged edges behind the experience and creation of each tale. Offbeat and insightful, this book is an engrossing read for students of travel writing as well as armchair wanderers.


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Sail Away: Stories of Escaping to Sea

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Sail Away: Stories of Escaping to Sea Review



Something happens—often magical, sometimes life-threatening, rarely mundane—when men and women put a plank between themselves and the water and set out on a voyage, whether for a day or a lifetime. The sea's ever-changing beauty, vastness, unbridled wildness and unpredictability make it an incomparable setting for human drama— one that has inspired generations of writers to capture what a voyage upon it is like. Now Sail Away: Stories of Escaping to Sea brings together the very best of this vast literature—and offers something to thrill and entertain every sailor and water-loving adventurer. Comprised of short stories, novel excerpts and narrative nonfiction, Sail Away includes twenty-one unforgettable pieces, including short stories by Jason Brown, Roald Dahl, John Rolfe Gardiner, Mary Lavin, and W.S. Merwin; narrative nonfiction by Bryan Burrough, Pete Goss, and Paul Theroux; and excerpts from such classics as Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki, and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. The selections in Sail Away cover the entire gamut of navigational experience, from the travails of a solo sailor in Ann Davison's My Ship is So Small, to adventures on a surfboard in Daniel Duane's Caught Inside, to the terrors of a monk's final journey in Inoue Yasushi's "Passage to Fudaraku." "We've heard it said," editors Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker write in their introduction, "that, 'on a ship, there is a fate in every plank.' This is no cliché; no two voyages, no two excursions, are ever alike. That every journey on water is unique isn't just a matter of different times, different places, but something much more fundamental. On a purely physical level, being on water is literally the closest thing we have to inhabiting a parallel universe—at least until space travel becomes practicable." Consider Sail Away an essential report from this parallel universe—and an essential companion as you dream about and discover it for yourself.


I love this book. The stories are sandy, dreamy, exciting, sad, funny, disturbing: It is a story for all tastes and all types of trips to the lake, and each is well written. I also like the little blurb of the publishing house that comes with all the stories and photographs. This is a great book to give as a gift: that's what I mean.


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