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Walking Backwards: Grand Tours, Minor Visitations, Miraculous Journeys, and a Few Good Meals

Walking Backwards: Grand Tours, Minor Visitations, Miraculous Journeys, and a Few Good Meals

Mark Frutkin
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From Istanbul to New Delhi to Boulder, Colorado, through Venice, Paris, Rome, and points between



As travellers, we are always walking backwards, forever on the verge of stepping into the unknown, never knowing what waits around the next corner.



You could be lost, forget your passport, fall ill. You could be served a bowl of food and not know whether it's animal, vegetable, or mineral. Even flushing the toilet can be an adventure.



You are a child again, innocent and hoping for the best, forced to trust strangers. Quite often this works out. Not always.



Walking Backwards is a return to 10 cities and what happened there. Whether inadvertently smuggling cloth into Istanbul, reading poetry in New Delhi to a crowd expecting a world-famous pianist, or wandering endlessly through Mantua searching for a non-existent hotel on a street that's fallen off the map, Mark Frutkin is a master at rediscovering the magic at the heart of all travel.
Language
English
Pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Dundurn
Release
August 05, 2011
ISBN
1554889324
ISBN 13
9781554889327

Walking Backwards: Grand Tours, Minor Visitations, Miraculous Journeys, and a Few Good Meals

Mark Frutkin
3.6/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
From Istanbul to New Delhi to Boulder, Colorado, through Venice, Paris, Rome, and points between



As travellers, we are always walking backwards, forever on the verge of stepping into the unknown, never knowing what waits around the next corner.



You could be lost, forget your passport, fall ill. You could be served a bowl of food and not know whether it's animal, vegetable, or mineral. Even flushing the toilet can be an adventure.



You are a child again, innocent and hoping for the best, forced to trust strangers. Quite often this works out. Not always.



Walking Backwards is a return to 10 cities and what happened there. Whether inadvertently smuggling cloth into Istanbul, reading poetry in New Delhi to a crowd expecting a world-famous pianist, or wandering endlessly through Mantua searching for a non-existent hotel on a street that's fallen off the map, Mark Frutkin is a master at rediscovering the magic at the heart of all travel.
Language
English
Pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Dundurn
Release
August 05, 2011
ISBN
1554889324
ISBN 13
9781554889327

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