Travel as a Political Act
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780786731510 (0786731516)
Publish date: October 1st 2009
Publisher: Basic Books
Edition language: English
Rick Steves is a well known travel writer, has his own TV show and writes an amazing selection of tour books of cities and countries in Europe. If you've watched his show, he comes across as very informed, funny, and to be honest, slightly goofy. This book shows a much more serious and thoughtful ...
While I have watched many an episode of "Rick Steves' Europe," I have not read any of his books before this. "Travel as a Political Act" speaks to something I have been saying for many years: travel broadens who you are as a person.In this book, Steves talks about becoming a "temporary local" and ...
This is a series of chapter-long travelogues on the themes of getting to know people of different cultures. Steves's suggestions are what you'd expect if you've watched his show--talk with people in the places you're traveling, stop and sit awhile at a little restaurant or cafe, try to learn about a...
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