Lonely Planet A House Somewhere

by George, Don

• ISBN13: 9781742201054
• ISBN10: 1742201059
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-01
• Publisher: Lonely Planet

Summary

We've all dreamt of escaping to a House Somewhere. In this collection some of the finest names in contemporary travel writing reveal the perils and pleasures of exchanging the familiar for the foreign. Isabel Allende discovers love and paradise in California, Pico Iyer finds home in Japan amidst the alien and indecipherable, and a dank barge on the Seine opens up a new side of Paris for Mort Rosenblum. Revealing the flip side to the dream, relocating to the juicy heart of New York proves fiery for Lily Brett, Chris Stewart is frightened for his life in Andalucia, and the plumbing in William Dalrymple's rooftop Delhi flat is held to ransom by his water-conserving landlady.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Home Thoughts form Abroad	p. 1
A Home in æParadiseÆ	p. 9
The Alien Home, from The Global Soul	p. 17
Tiwarik and Kansulay, from Playing with Water	p. 25
February, from A Year in provence	p. 37
Festina Tarde (Make haste Slowly), from Under the Tuscan Sun	p. 57
from City of Djinns	p. 71
from O Come Ye Back to Ireland	p. 83
Digging Mr BennyÆs Dead Uncle	p. 93
Troppo Gentile, from Halian Neighbours	p. 103
At Home on the Seine	p. 113
Tenmangu, from Lost Japan	p. 121
from Dinner of Herbs	p. 135
A Co-op Building, from new York	p. 149
A House in the Casbah	p. 153
The Visit, from On Mexican Time	p. 169
The Year Brunetto II Piccolo Fell in Love, from La Bella Vita	p. 183
from Extra Virgin	p. 195
Waiting for Juan, from A Parrot in the Pepper Tree	p. 211
Lataîfa, from In an Antique Land	p. 225
Aloft in Paris	p. 239
Chinese Life from River Town	p. 253
A Love-Scene after Work: Writing in the Tropics, from Sunrise with Seamonsters	p. 269
from A House in Corfu	p. 281
Barefoot at Shanzu	p. 293
Coming Home in Massachusetts	p. 303
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