I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers

by Roger Rapoport

Book Overview

An anthology of 50 travel writers, journalists and novelists who tell their worst travel nightmares. It includes stories from people such as Isabel Allende who froze in a battered camper in Paris,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571430148
• ISBN13: 9781571430144
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: RDR Books
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Give this to your traveling friends

This is one of the most entertaining travel books I've ever read. A perfect gift for friends who love to travel. On the other hand, it may convince the timid to stay home!

Humorous Spins on Disasterous Trips

This is a must-read for anyone who has ever bought a ticket for the wrong bus, ordered a tractor on toast, or mistaken a brothel for a bargain pensione.One hilarious, laugh-out-loud episode after another! A great companion reader to have along on your next vacation abroad. Good variety of locales, plots, and writing styles.

Side-splitting,great read out loud,can't-put-down book!

These stories are so incredible you just know they have got to be true. No one could ever make up the raining scorpians, rivers of vomit or very private events in very public places. This was one of the more hilarious and interesting books I have read in a loooong time. It's just like sitting down and sharing favorite international (and national) travel-stories-from-hell with some friends you just made at the airport while waiting for yet another adventure to begin.

Humor & insight are lemonade from lemon -biiter experiences

This and its companion ("I've Been Gone Far Too Long") prove my theory that the worst things in the travel world are not getting lost, being confused, bing ripped off or staying in a lousy place. They add color to travel, texture to life and often provide insights and memories that white-washed tourism can't.