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We've all been to Nowhere. It might have been in the middle of Borneo or Beijing. It might have been in a Mayan mountain village, along a time-worn trail in Tuscany, on an isolated South Pacific island, or under a desert moon in Mali. Nowhere is a setting, a situation and a state of mind. It's not on any map, but you know ti when you're there.
Full of passion, surprise, wonder, curiosity and revelation, the 30 real-life tales in this extraordinary collection compose a kaleidoscopic portrait of the many Nowheres we visit in our lives, and the many roads we take to get there.
These richly varied tales all celebrate and illuminate one simple truth: if we embark on each adventure with an open heart and an open mind, travel will take us places we never planned to go, and enrich and enlighten us in ways we never otherwise would have known.
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Tatsuya Shimizu
reviewed Tales from Nowhere on May 12, 2008
Tales from Nowhere
This is not the best selection of travel essays I've ever read. There are some well-known travel writers included -- Pico Iyer, Simon Winchester, et al -- but collection feels overly dictated by an editor's directive. Each piece is of a certain length (often, I felt, too short), a certain tone (not too upbeat, not too downbeat), has a certain clever (not necessarily good) ending.
I have issues with the premise of the collection. The idea of Western writers traveling to actual places and labeling them "nowhere" strikes me as arrogant. By the middle of this book, it seems any place that makes traveling difficult or is not up to Western, developed standards is a "nowhere." Entire countries are written off in this way, and I wished for more enlightened travelers to be guiding me instead of those included here.
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