Bad Trips
Published on 8. June 2011
384 pages
978-0-307-79719-3 (ISBN)
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The entries in this collection take us to the farthest extremes of travel with tales of danger, disorientation and bemused discomfort; combines reportage, fiction and poetry representing some of the best-known writers of our time.
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Keath Fraser
Bad Trips
A Sometimes Terrifying, Sometimes Hilarious Collection of Writing on the Perils of the Road
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04/1991
Vintage Books
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Keath Fraser is the editor of the nonfiction anthology Bad Trips. He is a recipient of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, which he won for Popular Anatomy.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: The Very Idea of A Bad Trip
- Joseph Brodsky Advice to a Traveller
- Jan Morris My Worst Journey
- George Woodcock My Worst Journeys
- David Mamet A Family Vacation
- William Trevor The Second Journey
- Martha Gellhorn What Bores Whom?
- Edward Hoagland Balancing Act
- Part Two: Writers and The Fear of Flying
- Paulette Jiles Night Flight to Attiwapiskat
- Timothy Findley An Unforgettable Journey to Russia
- Stuart Stevens from Night Train to Turkistan
- Martin Amis Emergency Landing
- Part Three: Writers as Tourists
- Hugo Williams La Folie Anglaise
- Alberto Manguel The Farther We're from England
- P. K. Page On the Road Again: The Australian Outback, June 1956
- Anita Desai Frozen in Frøya
- Rohinton Mistry Running Water
- Mark Salzman from Iron & Silk
- Umberto Eco from Travels in Hyperreality
- John Metcalf from Adult Entertainment
- Bob Geldof from Is That It?
- John Updike Venezuela for Visitors
- Murray Bail from Homesickness
- Part Four: Lucking Out with A Bad Patch of Road
- Norman Lewis from Golden Earth
- Patrick Marnham from Road to Katmandu
- Mark Abley from Beyond Forget
- Colin Thubron from Where Nights Are Longest
- Paul Theroux from The Old Patagonian Express
- Mary Morris from Nothing to Declare
- Ronald Wright from Cut Stones and Crossroads
- Charles Nicholl from The Fruit Palace
- Jonathan Raban from Old Glory
- Ted Conover from Rolling Nowhere
- Part Five: Writers and The Effects of War
- Irving Layton Postcard
- Dirk Bogarde from Backcloth
- James Fenton from All the Wrong Places
- Gavin Young The Murder of Hué
- John Ryle from The Road to Abyei
- Carolyn Forché Return
- Peregrine Hodson from Under a Sickle Moon
- Part Six: Classic Questers in Extremis
- Al Purdy When I Sat Down to Play the Piano
- Russell Banks from Continental Drift
- J. M. Coetzee from Waiting for the Barbarians
- Graham Greene from The Lawless Roads
- Eric Hansen from Stranger in the Forest
- Redmond O'hanlon from In Trouble Again
- Wilfred Thesiger from Arabian Sands
- Michael Asher from A Desert Dies
- Eric Newby from A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
- Peter Matthiessen from The Snow Leopard
- John Mills The Night of Lucia
- About the Editor
- Acknowledgments
