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Rediscovering travel : a guide for the globally curious
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Rediscovering travel : a guide for the globally curious
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9780871408501
Publication Information:
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2018]
Physical Description:
301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Rediscovering discovery -- Organic experiences -- Why we travel -- Technology and travel -- Risk and travel -- People and travel -- Money and travel -- Bad influences, good travelers.
Abstract:
By captivating millions during his six-year, fifty-country tenure as the New York Times's "Frugal Traveler," Seth Kugel has become one of our most internationally beloved travel writers. While his famously unassuming journeys around the globe have forged a signature philosophy of whimsy and practicality, they have also revealed the seemingly infinite booby traps of on-the-grid tourism. In a book with widespread cultural reverberations, Kugel takes the modern travel industry to task, determined to reignite humanity's age-old sense of adventure that has virtually been vanquished by the spontaneity-obliterating likes of Google Maps, TripAdvisor, and Starwood points. Woven throughout with vivid tales of his perfectly imperfect adventures, Rediscovering Travel explains--often hilariously--how to make the most of new digital technologies without being shackled to them. For the tight-belted tourist and the first-class flyer, the eager student and the comfort-seeking retiree, Kugel shows how we too can rediscover the joy of discovery.
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