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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd
Publication date March 1, 2003
Pages 256
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780753816813
ISBN-10 0753816814
Dimensions 1 by 5 by 7.50 in.
Weight 0.80 lbs.
Availability§ Apply Direct
Original list price $16.99
Other format details travel
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A. A. Gill is one of the most feared writers in London, noted--according to the New York Times--for his "rapier wit." Some even consider the mere assignment of a subject to Gill a hostile act. But when the notice "AA GILL IS AWAY" runs in the Sunday Times of London, the city can rest peacefully in the knowledge that the writer is off traveling.

"My editor asked me what I wanted from journalism and I said the first thing that came into my head--I'd like to interview places. To treat a place as if it were a person, to go and listen to it, ask it questions, observe it the way you would interview a politician or a pop star," Gill writes.

Upon his return, readers are treated to an account of his vacations to places like famine-stricken Sudan, the pornography studios of California's San Fernando Valley, the dying Aral Sea or the seedy parts of Kaliningrad.

The result is one of the most fascinating, stylish and irreverent collections of travel writing.

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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780304362158
 
from Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd (February 1, 2003)
9780304362158 | details & prices | 256 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 2.00 lbs | List price $35.00
About: Whether describing the horror of famine in the Sudan, the tragic forgotten city of Kaliningrad or the anthropology of a motorway service station on the M1, this is A.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780743276672 Book cover for 9780753816813
 
from Simon & Schuster (October 1, 2005)
9780743276672 | details & prices | 305 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.62 lbs | List price $16.00
About: A collection of short travel writings by the acerbic UK columnist features some of his most popular observations of such topics as starvation in Africa, the Arab Sea environmental disaster in Uzbekistan, and the adult film industry in Los Angeles.
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from Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd (March 1, 2003)
9780753816813 | details & prices | 256 pages | 5.00 × 7.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $16.99
About: A.
Miscellaneous
from Simon & Schuster (November 1, 2007)
9781416548188 | details & prices | 320 pages | List price $10.99

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