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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.4
EAN num: 9781587900181
ISBN number: 1587900181
Label: Regent Press
Manufacturer: Regent Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: 2002-05
Publishing house: Regent Press
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Jeff Greenwald's four previous books, including his best-selling 'Shopping for Buddhas' and 'The Size of the World,' have taken thousands of readers on journeys from the ruins of Angkor to the California Lottery's 'Big Spin': voyages at once sublime and provocative, spiritual and absurd. After more delays than the Mumbai-Chennai Express, Jeff's latest offering -- 'Scratching the Surface: Impressions of Planet Earth, from Hollywood to Shiraz' -- is finally available, as a limited edition paperback. Here is the best of Greenwald's 20-year travel writing career, hand-picked from two decades of open-eyed dispatches. Spanning oceans, continents, and the quantum leap from the Smith-Corona to the Cybercafé, these stories provide an illuminating, often hilarious view of our quickly evolving world.
The thirty-one tales in 'Scratching the Surface' span the globe, from the jungles of Nepal to a solar eclipse in the skies above Iran; from an 'electric bath' in Tokyo to moonwalker Buzz Aldrin's Beverly Hills flat. Nearly all of these stories have previously appeared in print, but most will be unfamiliar to even his most loyal fans.
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As an aspiring travel writer myself who just returned from 14 months around the world, I skimmed this book to get a sense of Greenwald's style, where he's been, and how he views the world. I found the writing to be really good when he wasn't so busy sharing all the great things he's done and how much he likes himself. There's an air of self-aggrandizement that gets in the way of the stories. If he could just take a more humble approach, I'd be more intrigued and inspired. To be perfectly honest, a part of me is jealous of Greenwald for having visited many of these places in the '90s before they became so overtouristed. Overall I think he does a great job of offering pertinent historical facts and great backgrounds that make the experience so much more real and interesting. He just needs to get off his high horse.
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(Planeta Journal) Collection of 31 tales span the globe in this anthology of travel writing at its finest. Insightful, inquisitive and inspiring, Greenwald reminds readers of the transformative potential of exploring areas off the beaten path. Readers accompany the author around the world, and it's hard to sit still after reading this book.
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if you have read his other books, you will have read about half of these stories already.
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Jeff Greenwald is the kind of traveler most people rightly want to be--insouciant, funny, compassionate and cyncal at the same time. He's seems to have been just about everywhere (I'm sure he'd scoff at that), and seen it all, but most of all one gets from his writing a special sense of hope. He clearly loves the world and all its inhabitants--and in the manner in which the whole wild and poignant panoply of life pains and delights him, he brings the reader to their own natural place of wonder. Even better (I've read three of his other books), I always find myself Greenwalded into an eddy of determination not only to make my own subsequent trip real, but when I'm on it, to be a better observer and a better participant in the magic all about me.
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