The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Hely, Steve

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ISBN 10: 0525955011 ISBN 13: 9780525955016

Casa editrice: Dutton, 2016

Riassunto

Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad!, and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make any reader want to reach for their backpack and hiking boots.

The Wonder Trail is the story of Steve’s trip from Los Angeles to the bottom of South America, presented in 102 short chapters. The trip was ambitious—Steve traveled through Mexico City, ancient Mayan ruins, the jungles and coffee plantations and remote beaches of Central America, across the Panama Canal, by sea to Colombia, to the wild Easter celebration of Popayán, to the Amazon rainforest, the Inca sites of Cuzco and Machu Picchu, to the Galápagos Islands, the Atacama Desert of Chile, and down to the jagged and wind-worn land of Patagonia, at the very end of the western hemisphere. 

Steve’s plan was to discover the weird, wonderful, and absurd—not to ignore the challenges and problems in Central and South America—but to focus on the incredible, delightful people and experiences that came his way. And the book that resulted is just as fun. A blend of travel writing, history, and comic memoir, The Wonder Trail will inspire, inform, and delight.

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Recensione

“Full of...anecdotes, local color and touches of the cheerfully bizarre...making [it] indispensable.”
--New York Times

“The Wonder Trail may be my favorite travel book of all time. Steve Hely’s voice is casually insightful, refreshingly honest, and, most of all, amazingly funny.”
--B.J. Novak, author of One More Thing

“Fast-paced, informative, and funny...Hely’s hilarious descriptions of the stunning sights and quirky people he encounters along the way will delight experienced globetrotters and armchair travelers alike...Highly recommended.”
--Library Journal (starred review)

"A very funny book."
--Outside Magazine

“As informative as it is funny.” 
--Chicago Tribune

“Wryly observed essays...[find] insight and humor in unexpected encounters on the road."
--The Citizen-Times

L'autore

Steve Hely was a writer for 30 Rock, Late Show with David Letterman and the acclaimed animated comedyAmerican Dad!. He also wrote the Thurber-winning novel How I Became a Famous Novelist, and coauthored the comic travelogueThe Ridiculous Race.

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• Editore: Dutton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0525955011
• ISBN 13: 9780525955016
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 336