I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of the Great Writers (Travel Literature Series)
by Rapoport, Roger and Castanera, Marguerita -- Editors
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1571430148
- ISBN 13
- 9781571430144
- Seller
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About This Item
Berkeley. CA: Rdr Books, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Edition Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Special intro by Mary Morris and a rebuttal by Jan Morris. A hilarious anthology with 51 top travel writers, novelists and journalists telling their stories of their greatest travel disaster. Includes contributions by Isabel Allende who tells of freezing in a battered camper in Paris; Rick Steves; Paul Theroux; Barbara Kingsolver; Dominique Lapierre; Helen Gurley Brown; and many others . The book is gently used, whisper of wear to corners, faint crease down spine, tight & solid, pages quite clean, no markings of any kind. Size: 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. 256 pages. 1994, Rdr Books, Berkeley, CA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028137
- Title
- I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of the Great Writers (Travel Literature Series)
- Author
- Rapoport, Roger and Castanera, Marguerita -- Editors
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1571430148
- ISBN 13
- 9781571430144
- Publisher
- Rdr Books
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley. CA
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- ANTHOLOGY TRAVEL WRITERS JOURNALISTS NOVELISTS DISASTERS
- X weight
- 0 oz
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