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By the Seat of My Pants (review)

By the Seat of My Pants (review) By the Seat of My Pants Edited by Don George Lonely Planet, 2005, 248 pp., $15 Lately the trend in literary travel writing is that the best of times is the worst of times. Everyone secretly relishes the bad trip, as long as it's somebody else's. And there are a whole lot of those in Lonely Planet's new book of humorous tales of travel and misadventure, By the Seat of My Pants, edited by Don George, Lonely Planet's global travel editor and former editor of Salon.com's "Wanderlust." Not since Travelers' Tales' Danger! has such a diverse collection combined literary flair with the savoir-faire of luminaries (Jan Morris, Pico Iyer, Simon Winchester) and lesser-knowns (Bill Fink). At least one story, " e Afghan Tourist Office" (whose title says it all), is by a previously unpublished writer, Alexander Ludwick. In thirty years of wandering the globe, Don George has learned that the one thing you can expect when traveling is that the unexpected will happen. " at's why my #1 rule of the road is this: if you don't pack your sense of humour with your sunscreen, sooner or later you will get burned," Don George says in the introduction. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Missouri Review University of Missouri

By the Seat of My Pants (review)

The Missouri Review , Volume 29 (2) – Sep 11, 2006

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University of Missouri
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Copyright © 2006 by The Curators of the University of Missouri.
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1548-9930
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By the Seat of My Pants Edited by Don George Lonely Planet, 2005, 248 pp., $15 Lately the trend in literary travel writing is that the best of times is the worst of times. Everyone secretly relishes the bad trip, as long as it's somebody else's. And there are a whole lot of those in Lonely Planet's new book of humorous tales of travel and misadventure, By the Seat of My Pants, edited by Don George, Lonely Planet's global travel editor and former editor of Salon.com's "Wanderlust." Not since Travelers' Tales' Danger! has such a diverse collection combined literary flair with the savoir-faire of luminaries (Jan Morris, Pico Iyer, Simon Winchester) and lesser-knowns (Bill Fink). At least one story, " e Afghan Tourist Office" (whose title says it all), is by a previously unpublished writer, Alexander Ludwick. In thirty years of wandering the globe, Don George has learned that the one thing you can expect when traveling is that the unexpected will happen. " at's why my #1 rule of the road is this: if you don't pack your sense of humour with your sunscreen, sooner or later you will get burned," Don George says in the introduction.

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The Missouri ReviewUniversity of Missouri

Published: Sep 11, 2006

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