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My Kind of Place

My Kind of Place

Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere

by Susan Orlean
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/11/2005

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New Yorker writer and author of The Library Book takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book.

In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois-and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality.

With Orlean as guide, lucky readers partake in all manner of armchair activity. They will climb Mt. Fuji and experience a hike most intrepid Japanese have never attempted; play ball with Cuba's Little Leaguers, promising young athletes born in a country where baseball and politics are inextricably intertwined; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone's favorite whale as he tries to make it on his own; stay awhile in Midland, Texas, hometown of George W. Bush, a place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a New York City school so troubled it's known as "Horror High"; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the world.

Vivid, humorous, unconventional, and incomparably entertaining, Susan Orlean's writings for The New Yorker have delighted readers for over a decade. My Kind of Place is an inimitable treat by one of America's premier literary journalists.
ISBN:
9780812974874
9780812974874
Category:
Travel & holiday
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-11-2005
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
203x132x18mm
Weight:
0.27kg
Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992.

She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award-winning film Adaptation.

She lives with her family and her animals in Los Angeles.

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