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How to talk about places you've never been : on the importance of armchair travel
- Title
- How to talk about places you've never been : on the importance of armchair travel / Pierre Bayard ; translated by Michele Hutchison.
- Author
- Bayard, Pierre, 1954-
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2016.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 16-1312 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hutchison, Michele
- Description
- xvi, 185 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Written in the irreverent style that made How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read a critical and commercial success, Pierre Bayard takes readers on a trip around the world, giving us essential guidance on how to talk about all those fantastic places we've never been. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Places You've Never Been will delight and inform armchair globetrotters and jet-setters, all while never having to leave the comfort of the living room. Bayard examines the art of the "non-journey," a tradition that a succession of writers and thinkers, unconcerned with moving away from their home turf, have employed in order to encounter the foreign cultures they wish to know and talk about. He describes concrete situations in which the reader might find himself having to speak about places he's never been, and he chronicles some of his own experiences and offers practical advice" -- provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Comment parler des lieux où l'on n'a pas été? English
- Alternative Title
- Comment parler des lieux où l'on n'a pas été?
- Subject
- Language (note)
- Translated from French.
- Contents
- Prologue -- Various ways of not knowing -- Places you don't know -- Places you've been through -- Places others have talked about -- Places you've forgotten -- Talking about travel -- In the field of anthropology -- In the media -- In sporting endeavors -- In the bosom of the family -- Procedures to follow -- Opening up frontiers -- Time travel -- Through the mirror -- Making love -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-1312
- ISBN
- 9781620401378
- 1620401371
- 9781620401385 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 935213758
- Author
- Bayard, Pierre, 1954- author.
- Title
- How to talk about places you've never been : on the importance of armchair travel / Pierre Bayard ; translated by Michele Hutchison.
- Publisher
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from French.
- Added Author
- Hutchison, Michele, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-1312