The Gift of Travel: The Best of Travelers' Tales

by Larry Habegger, Sean O'Reilly Habegger, Larry, James O'Reilly, Larry Sean O'Reilly Habegger

The award-winning Travelers'' Tales books are based on the simple premise that the experience of other tr avellers is our best map to a strange land. This volume pres ents a selection of stories from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885211252
• ISBN13: 9781885211255
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Travelers' Tales
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

A book that captures the essence of travel.

This book captures all the senses. The stories capture the reader in a way few books can. When you don't feel like you are the traveller in the story then you long to wish that you were. The stories are exciting, heart warming, funny, and amazing. This book opens the reader to the wonderful world of travel.

Made me ache to travel again.

So many of the stories in this book hit me in the heart, they made me want to get on a plane TOMORROW. Reminded me of the magic of travel, and why I want to be out there wandering the world again.

A very enjoyable read and a traveler's inspiration!

I so enjoyed reading this book that I just bought six more in the series! In the introduction the editors write that for some travel is "a salve for weary body and soul." This phrase could aptly be applied to the book as well. It soothed the worries of my day and refreshed my perspective on the good things in my life. The stories evoke a sense of adventure, the pleasure of an unexpected kindness, the opening of new worlds, and the discovery of one's self along the way. There are one or two stories that I almost skipped, since they represented a lifestyle that seemed awkward to me - but that is often what travel entails, and the discomfort offers sparks of excitement to the journey. Most of the tales carried me to distant lands and warmly reminded me of past trips or stirred me to consider future ones.