White Sands (eBook)

Experiences from the Outside World

GEOFF DYER (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
193 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78211-741-4 (ISBN)

Infos

'It seems certain that the apple in Eden grew on the tree of knowledge of elsewhere. Up until that point Adam and Eve were happy where they were. Then they ate the apple and it was slightly disappointing to them and they started to wonder if maybe there were other kinds of apples elsewhere, if there were crunchier and crisper and sweeter apples to be had from somewhere else. They began to think that there might be a funner place, where the food was better. They even began to suspect that paradise itself might be somewhere else . . . From there, to keep the history of the world as brief as possible, it is only a small step to package cruises and supermarkets stocking the full spectrum of exotic fruit.'Taking the form of ten journeys, White Sands is an exploration of why we travel from perhaps Britain's greatest globetrotter. Episodic, wide-ranging, funny and smart, it marks a return to the subject of Dyer's Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, albeit with the wisdom of age.From viewing a lightning field in the Mexican desert by night, to chasing Gauguin's ghost in French Polynesia, from falling in love with a tour guide in the Forbidden City of Beijing to tracking down the house of a childhood idol in LA, Dyer pursues all permutations of the peak experience, explores the voyage through time, and plumbs the effects of distance. In his trademark style he blends travel writing, essay, criticism and fiction with a smart and cantankerous wit that is unmatched. This is a book for armchair travellers and procrastinating philosophers everywhere.

Autor

Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ's Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.

Rezensionen

Geoff Dyer is a true original - one of those rare voices in contemporary literature that never ceases to surprise, disturb and delight

Reading Dyer is akin to the sudden elation and optimism you feel when you make a new friend, someone as silly as you but cleverer too, in whose company you know you will travel through life more vagrantly, intensely, joyfully

Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.6.2016
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Schlagworte: Alain de Botton • Backpacking • Beijing • best new travel books • Bill Bryson • bryson • de Botton • Deep South • dyer • Eat Pray Love • Essays • Everman Wodehouse • French Polynesia • Gap Year • Gauguin • geoff dyer • Germania • how to pack • Interstate • In the Hills of Wales • Jan Morris • Jeff in Venice • Jon Ronson • LA • Little Dribbling • Los Angeles • Men Who Stare at Goats • Mexico • Road Trip • Silk Road • Somerset Maugham • squirrel pie • Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year • The White Road • the year of living danishly • Travel • Venice • White Sands • why we travel • Wild • Year in Provence • Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered • Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It
• ISBN-10: 1-78211-741-5 / 1782117415
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-741-4 / 9781782117414