<DIV>“A book to be plundered and raided.” — <I>New York Times Book Review</I><BR><br> “A portal into a world of timeless travel literature curated by one of the greatest travel writers of our day.” — <I>USA Today</I><BR><br> Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe in this collection of the best writing from the books that have shaped him as a reader and a traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, <I>The Tao of Travel </I>contains excerpts from the best of Theroux’s own work interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected:<BR><br><div><I>Vladimir Nabokov Eudora Welty<BR> Evelyn Waugh James Baldwin<BR> Charles Dickens Pico Iyer<BR> Henry David Thoreau Anton Chekhov<BR> Mark Twain John McPhee<BR> Freya Stark Ernest Hemingway<BR> Graham Greene and many others</I></div><br> “Dazzling . . . Like someone panning for gold, Theroux reread hundreds of travel classics and modern works, shaking out the nuggets.” — <I>San Francisco Chronicle</I></div>