By the Seat of My Pants: And Other Funny Travel Stories (Lonely Planet Travel Literature) - Softcover

9781741046069: By the Seat of My Pants: And Other Funny Travel Stories (Lonely Planet Travel Literature)

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This book contains hilarious travel stories on a variety of themes including food, people, transport, accommodation, etc. These stories are written by well-known comedians and travel writers plus previously unpublished authors. It includes some contributions from the competition by Lonely Planet, following previous successful anthology publishing - "The Kindness of Strangers" and "A House Somewhere". Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures, unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable encounters, these experiences can give birth to our most profound travel lessons and illuminations, and our most memorable - and hilarious travel stories Lonely Planet assembles and celebrates here 25 such stories in its new literary travel anthology the stories include globe-girdling tales that run the gamut from flat-tyre safaris to loss-of-face follies, eccentric expats to mind-boggling repasts, wrong trains taken, to agreements mistaken, romance gone awry to planes that shouldn't fly.

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will provide a riotous howl and a yen to wander -- Publishers Weekly, July 11, 2005

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  • PublisherLonely Planet Publications
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 1741046068
  • ISBN 13 9781741046069
  • BindingPaperback
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages248
  • EditorGeorge Don

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