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Author: Susan OrleanEdition: 1
Publisher: Random House IncISBN-10: 0679462937
Subject: Law & GovernmentISBN-13: 9780679462934
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Language: EnglishPublication Year: 2004
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Susan Orlean, author of the acclaimed THE ORCHID THIEF, collects her offbeat and entertaining essays on (loosely speaking) travel. Her kind of place includes a wild variety of destinations, including Paris, Cuba, the American Midwest (for the World Taxidermy Championship), Mt. Fuji, and George W. Bush's own Midland, Texas.

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Susan Orlean has been called “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and “a kind of latter-day Tocqueville” by The New York Times Book Review. In addition to having written classic articles for The New Yorker, she was played, with some creative liberties, by Meryl Streep in her Golden Globe Award—winning performance in the film Adaptation.
Now, in My Kind of Place, the real Susan Orlean takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book. In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois–and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality.
With Orlean as guide, lucky readers partake in all manner of armchair activity. They will climb Mt. Fuji and experience a hike most intrepid Japanese have never attempted; play ball with Cuba’s Little Leaguers, promising young athletes born in a country where baseball and politics are inextricably intertwined; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone’s favorite whale as he tries to make it on his own; stay awhile in Midland, Texas, hometown of George W. Bush, a place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a New York City school so troubled it’s known as “Horror High”; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the world.
Vivid, humorous, unconventional, and incomparably entertaining, Susan Orlean’s writings for The New Yorker have delighted readers for over a decade. My Kind of Place is an inimitable treat by one of America’s premier literary journalists.

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"[A]n insightful collection by an exceptional essayist."
Publishers Weekly  (08/16/2004)


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My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0679462937
Title : My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
Authors : Susan Orlean
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Random House
Publication Date : 2004-09-28
Pages : 304
List Price (MSRP) : 24.95
Height : 1.1000 inches
Width : 6.2000 inches
Length : 9.3000 inches
Weight : 1.2000 pounds
Keywords : Essays & Travelogues, Travel: General, Hardcover
Condition : Very Good

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