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| The Way of the World | 
 enlarge | Author: Nicolas Bouvier
Creators: Thierry Vernet, Robyn Marsack
Publisher: Elan Press
Category: Book
List Price: $31.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 227885
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 326
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0907871534
Dewey Decimal Number: 915
EAN: 9780907871538
ASIN: 0907871534
Publication Date: August 13, 2007
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Product Description
A Cult Classic, "The Way of the World" is one of the most beguiling travel books ever written. Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistan rubbish heap, it tells of a friendship between a writer and an artist, forged on an impecunious, life-enhancing journey from Serbia to Afghanistan in the 1950s. On one level it is a candid description of a road journey, on another a meditation on travel as a journey towards the self, all written by a sage with a golden pen and a wide infectious smile. It is published here for the first time in English with the Vernet drawings which are such a dynamic part of its whole.
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Splendid January 12, 2000
I envy him. I envy his travels and his writing. For me Bouvier writes the best travel novels. It s something different. He doesn't describe the country. he simply lives country's life. Stays somewhere in Anatolia for a month, then suddenly one day decides it is time. Time to go, time to travel.
The "Open Road" meets "The road less traveled" in a Fiat. July 8, 1997
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
The Way of the World takes me back to when a generation traveled the world with backpacks, motorcycles and VW buses. It is a travel log set in the late fifties, of two casual travelers in their early twenties, who set off on a trip from Europe to India to explore the backroads and see life in its essence as lived by the local people. The book paints the pictures of gypsys, artists, mountain families and ancient cities with bazaars, using local color and the eye of an artist. Those who have traveled with similiar resources will enjoy the challenges of the innovative repair of an old Fiat in the middle of a desert, the capricousness of venturing into another country with only pocketchange, and the discovery that most people in the world do have a love of strangers.
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