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.Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents City Travel Guides > Books > Books on Cassette by: Paul Theroux 1998-11 What began as a mentoring relationship between established novelist V. S. Naipaul and Paul Theroux, a young writer working on his first novel, went on to endure as a "friendship" for thirty years as both writers traveled the world but remained in touch. They met when Theroux was a young ex-Peace Corp worker teaching in Uganda at the university in Makerere in 1966, and Naipaul, nine years his senior, became "writer-in-residence" there, though Naipaul hated teaching and mocked the writing of his students and the Makerere faculty. He did, however, recognize Theroux's talent, and he did help and encourage him to get his novel published. Theroux, in turn, was an astute reader of Naipaul's work, and both benefited from the relationship, at least ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents |
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.Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need City Travel Guides > Books > Books on Cassette from: Random House Audio September 17, 1991 Wow. Publishers Weekly didnt like this book? I love it. There isnt one sentence in it that isnt funny. It's a good book to have if you're on a long car trip and need something to keep people entertained. >>See More Reviews & Details on Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need |
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.Linguaphone: Cours De Francais City Travel Guides > Books > Books on Cassette by: Max Bellancourt 1992 Wow. Publishers Weekly didnt like this book? I love it. There isnt one sentence in it that isnt funny. It's a good book to have if you're on a long car trip and need something to keep people entertained. >>See More Reviews & Details on Linguaphone: Cours De Francais |
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.Trip to the Beach, A City Travel Guides > Books > Books on Cassette by: Robert Blanchard October 10, 2000 The Blanchards have done what a lot of us dream of doing: a fun job without bosses in a fun country with fantastic weather--at least in season! Aside from providing a thoroughly enjoyable account of their move to Anguilla, the book is also a passionate description of how one can make a dream come true, and with not that much money at all. Having said that, their repeated references to the Anguillan "paradise" maybe a bit excessive when one considers the horrible red-tape, vicious hurricanes and logistic nightmares they had to deal with. But perhaps that is what makes this book really excellent: it is a realistic view of the pros and cons of the Blanchards' choice, devoid of sticky romanticism and with no trace whatsoever of the smugness and superiority complexes ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Trip to the Beach, A |
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.Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850; the diary of Margaret A. Frink (Living Voices of the Past) (Living Voices of the Past) City Travel Guides > Books > Books on Cassette from: Beverlys, Ltd April 26, 1999 My great-great grandparents with an infant daughter journeyed overland from Missouri to California in 1850 and I read this book to learn something of their experience. As the editors point out few women made the crossing by land and thus their accounts have great significance. This book contains the diaries and letters of six women who traveled by wagon and horseback across the Great Plains and the mountains of the West to a new home in California, Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico in 1850. Amongst their descriptions of terror and hardship are also homely tales of life on the trail and often the generosity and nobility of many of their fellows. I was impressed most by the sheer numbers of the overlanders. Some 50,000 people took ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850; the diary of Margaret A. Frink (Living Voices of the Past) (Living Voices of the Past) |
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.Three Weeks With My Brother City Travel Guides > Books > Books on Cassette by: Nicholas Sparks April 01, 2004 At first I thought it was very difficult to listen to. I got throught the first CD and put it aside. I want to know where he found this trip and how much did it cost because I would like to do this too. Anyone else know? Anyhow, yet again there is always a twist and I have found not be the emotional type when it comes to hard times but once on my own and thinking about it I feel bad for when good people pass on because there are so many other nasty people that we could do without. I wish I was more like Dana none the less. I am not optomistic at all. Anyhow in the end the book was very good and yes I would say read/listen to it.....Also, I still want to know where you found this trip at. >>See More Reviews & Details on Three Weeks With My Brother |
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.Travel Talk Egyptian Arabic (Traveltalk) City Travel Guides > Books > Books on Cassette from: Penton Overseas 2001-10 At first I thought it was very difficult to listen to. I got throught the first CD and put it aside. I want to know where he found this trip and how much did it cost because I would like to do this too. Anyone else know? Anyhow, yet again there is always a twist and I have found not be the emotional type when it comes to hard times but once on my own and thinking about it I feel bad for when good people pass on because there are so many other nasty people that we could do without. I wish I was more like Dana none the less. I am not optomistic at all. Anyhow in the end the book was very good and yes I would say read/listen to it.....Also, I still want to know where you found this trip at. >>See More Reviews & Details on Travel Talk Egyptian Arabic (Traveltalk) |
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.The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas (Penguin Audiobooks) City Travel Guides > Books > Books on Cassette by: Paul Theroux June 01, 1997 Note: I made some immature Mormon angry because of my negative reviews of books that attempted to prove the Book of Mormon, and that person has been slamming my reviews almost as fast as they are posted. So, your "helpful" votes are appreciated. Thanks, and note that a short review is not necessarily a bad review if it leads you to a great book. From Boston to Patagonia by train. What an adventure. As I wrote in my review of the "Great Railway Bazaar," treat yourself to traveling the easy way and read one of Paul Theroux's books. Peter Mathiessen described the "Old Patagonian Express" perfectly: "Sharp-eyed, honest, and exceptionally well-written...an implacable landscape, conveyed through a series of marvelous encounters." >>See More Reviews & Details on The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas (Penguin Audiobooks) |
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.Present Laughter (Audio Theatre Series) City Travel Guides > Books > Books on Cassette by: Noel Coward, L.A. Theatre Works, Dennis Erdman, Christina Pickles, Yeardley Smith 1996-06 A fast-paced and witty bedroom farce of the 1930s, Present Laughter was written by Coward as a vehicle in which he himself planned to star, and it may well reflect some of the less attractive aspects of his own life. The play concerns a well-known, 40-ish actor, Gary Essendine, who is about to set off for a series of performances in Africa. Essendine enjoys all the perks of stardom, including women who can't resist him, fawning fans, and late nights of partying, followed by late mornings of undisturbed sleeping. Though he is married to Liz, they have been separated for a couple of years, and neither minds the other's dalliances, or the serial dalliances of their circle of friends. In the course of the play, several women "forget their latch keys" and have to spend ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Present Laughter (Audio Theatre Series) |
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.Quick Take Off In French (Take Off in Series) City Travel Guides > Books > Books on Cassette by: Marie-Helene Correard July 10, 2003 A fast-paced and witty bedroom farce of the 1930s, Present Laughter was written by Coward as a vehicle in which he himself planned to star, and it may well reflect some of the less attractive aspects of his own life. The play concerns a well-known, 40-ish actor, Gary Essendine, who is about to set off for a series of performances in Africa. Essendine enjoys all the perks of stardom, including women who can't resist him, fawning fans, and late nights of partying, followed by late mornings of undisturbed sleeping. Though he is married to Liz, they have been separated for a couple of years, and neither minds the other's dalliances, or the serial dalliances of their circle of friends. In the course of the play, several women "forget their latch keys" and have to spend ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Quick Take Off In French (Take Off in Series) |