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ISBN: 9798874769086
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ISBN: 9798874769093
Runtime: | 8.76 Hours |
Category: | Nonfiction/Travel |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick in Memoirs
The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the color of passports and the color of skin.
The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history of travel with her personal story as a child on family vacations in India, an adult curious about the world, and an immigrant for whom roundtrips are an annual fact of life. Tracing the power dynamics that underlie tourism, this insightful debut parses who gets to travel, and who gets to write about the experience.
Threaded through the book are inviting and playful analyses of obvious and not-so-obvious travel artifacts: passports, carousels, bougainvilleas, guidebooks, trains, the idea of wanderlust itself. Together, they tell a subversive history of travel as a Euro-American mode of consumerism—but as any traveler knows, travel is more than that. As an immigrant whose loved ones live across continents, Habib takes a deeply curious and joyful look at a troubled and beloved activity.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Deepa Samuel reads crisply and does well with the various languages in this globe-spanning audiobook. Her carefully articulated style makes this history/memoir with travel stories vivid. The author[‘s]…mini histories of Baedeker, Lonely Planet, and Cook’s guides are excellent.” —AudioFile
“[An] irreverent, wide-ranging account…to examine who is able to travel and how the pastime has shaped our world.” —New York Times Book Review
Details
Details
Available Formats : | Retail CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/Travel |
Runtime: | 8.76 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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