Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers

Better Than Fiction

True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers

ByAlexander McCall Smith,Kurt Andersen,+9 more
2012 • 320 pages

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63 books

Germany

Daren
Daren
Prince Borghese's Trail: 10,000 Miles over Two Continents, Four Deserts, and the Roof of the World in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge
Amber, Furs and Cockleshells: Bike Rides with Pilgrims and Merchants
The Rise and Fall of Prussia
Corner Seat
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Husky Be My Guide
First Overland

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116 books

Italy

Daren
Daren
Who Wanders Alone
Prince Borghese's Trail: 10,000 Miles over Two Continents, Four Deserts, and the Roof of the World in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge
Amber, Furs and Cockleshells: Bike Rides with Pilgrims and Merchants
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Islands Ahead
Ghosts of the Rialto

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37 books

Saudi Arabia

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Daren
Behind the Veil: An Australian Nurse in Saudi Arabia
Wanderings in Arabia
To the Holy Shrines
Revolt in the Desert
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
The Road to Mecca
With Passport and Parasol

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60 books

Ireland

Daren
Daren
Rory & Ita
Odinn's Child / Sworn Brother / King's Man
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Troubles
The Genius and Other Stories
The Riders
Dr. Yes

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109 books

Non Fiction Short Story Ies

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On The Road To Damascus
Great Journeys
Great Railway Journeys
A Merry Dance Around The World
Forest of Memories
Forty Yarns and a Song
Traffics And Discoveries

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239 books

China

Daren
Daren
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Red Dust: A Path Through China
The Bonesetter's Daughter
Mao: The Unknown Story
The Great Wall
The Terracotta Army

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345 books

India

Daren
Daren
Days and Nights in Calcutta
City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
Losing Gemma
Sea of Poppies
The Vine Of Desire
Travels Through Sacred India

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425 books

Multi Continent

Daren
Daren
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
The Wrong Way Home
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
The Bonesetter's Daughter
On The Road To Damascus

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64 books

Multiple Authors

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Daren
Great Journeys
Great Railway Journeys
Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide
One Thousand Roads to Mecca:
A Book of Lands and Peoples
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Sunrise on the Southbound Sleeper: More Great Railway Journeys from the Daily Telegraph

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16 books

Solomon Islands

Daren
Daren
A History of the Pacific Islands
The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Pacific Journeys
Adventuring in Coral Seas
Solomon Time: Adventures in the South Pacific
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

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86 books

Indonesia

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Daren
My Life with the Headhunters
Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes
The Surgeon's Log
We Ended in Bali
The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea
The Five Pound Look
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers

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47 books

Sudan

Daren
Daren
Bagpipes in Babylon: A Lifetime in the Arab World and Beyond
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
The Last of the Bedu: In Search of the Myth
High-Ho to London: Incidents and interviews on a leisurely journey by air from Australia to Britain
Off the Rails
Walking the Nile

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33 books

Tahiti

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Daren
Moana: The Vastness of the Sea
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
South Seas Paradise
The World Is All Islands
The Bookseller at the End of the World
From Raft to Raft
A Tale of Tahiti

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66 books

Mexico

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Daren
The Five Pound Look
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
The Survival of Jan Little
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Round Trip from Poptun: A Journey in Search of the Maya
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

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14 books

Nicaragua

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Daren
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Empire of the Blue Water
The Jaguar Smile
New Worlds to Conquer
The Accidental Adventurer
Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny about This?"
Southern Cross to Pole Star: Tschiffely's Ride

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24 books

Honduras

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Daren
The Five Pound Look
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Jungle Capitalists: A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revolution: United Fruit and the Invention of Twentieth-century Greed
From the Cam to the Cays: The Story of the Cambridge Expedition to British Honduras 1959-60
Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization
The Ancient Maya
Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City, a WWII Spy, and a True Story of Deadly Adventure

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50 books

Argentina

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Daren
To Infinity and Beyond: What Che Guevara Started, Someone Had to Finish
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Voyage in the Beagle
The Tender Traveller
The Pampas and the Andes

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52 books

South Africa

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Journey to the Vanished City : Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel
Ice Bird
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
A Single Swallow: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Africa on a Tightrope

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28 books

Cuba

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Daren
The Winds of December
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Blue Cuban Nights
A Walk Around the West Indies
Empire of the Blue Water
Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

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26 books

Austria

Daren
Daren
Prince Borghese's Trail: 10,000 Miles over Two Continents, Four Deserts, and the Roof of the World in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge
Amber, Furs and Cockleshells: Bike Rides with Pilgrims and Merchants
The Rise and Fall of Prussia
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
First Overland
What the Traveller Saw
The Grand Tour

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21 books

Malawi

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Daren
Journey to the Vanished City : Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel
Rhodesia and Nyasaland Journey
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Riding the Rhino
Ulendo
Wild Lives of Africa
Travel & Adventure in South East Africa

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347 books

Uk

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Daren
Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
Love & Peace with Melody Paradise
Vurt
Falling Out of Cars
Man and Boy
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

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2 books

Luxembourg

Daren
Daren
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Journey Through Europe

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1,513 books

Travel

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Daren
City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
Red Dust: A Path Through China
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Travelling: An Entertainment
The Wrong Way Home
On The Road To Damascus

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310 books

Usa

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Daren
The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break
Lucky You
Interpreter of Maladies
The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Vine Of Desire
Tropic of Capricorn
The Snatching of Bookie Bob and Other Stories