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A Arte Da Viagem (2011)

by Paul Theroux(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Quetzal

review 1: Bring this book along, and enjoy to bits and pieces. Meant to be read over and over and over again. He has a style of writing that doesn't tire nor expire the thought and encapsulates what we expect to see in life through alliteration and other people's journeys in their lives, in the pages ironically of what we are meant to experience in our own travels. It makes me look forward to my own discoveries as lover of word, sights & sensible rhythm of life as it occurs.
review 2: The essential Tao of Travel (according to Paul Theroux)1. Leave home 2. Go alone3. Travel light4. Bring a Map5. Go by land6. Walk across a national frontier7. Keep a journal8. Read a novel that has no relation to the place you are in9. If you must bring a cell phone, avoid using it.10. Make... more a friend Interleaved with travel wisdom tidbits, Theroux has compiled every nuance of a traveling, sourcing from various travel literature including his own. Essentially traveling is a rebellion against our urge to conform with our life and its comfort zones, a natural trait of our species to move. He quotes Albert Camus "What gives value to travel is fear. It is in fact that, at certain moment when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear, and the instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. This is the most obvious benefit of travel. At that moment we are feverish but also porous, so that the slightest touch makes us uiver to the depths of our being. We come across a cascade of light, that is eternity. This is why we should not say that we travel for pleasure. There is no pleasure in traveling"Most of the writers are travelers too. Including those who just sat at their armchair and let their mind travel. He has tried to give all the aspects of travelling by quoting their ordeals, inspirations, epiphanies, fear, miseries, magical moments etc. This is a book that pushes you out of the home, tries to reason with the philosophies of a traveler and a tourist and tries to make a point on what that wide gap is between the two.. less

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