World Travel - An Irreverent Guide

Zusatztext Fun and frank ... The perfect book for veteran travellers, armchair enthusiasts and those in-between Informationen zum Autor Anthony Bourdain was the New York Times -bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential , which sold over a million copies, Medium Raw , A Cook's Tour and The Nasty Bits , the cookbooks Appetites and Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook , and the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo . His work appeared in the New York Times and The New Yorker . He was the host of the popular television shows No Reservations and Parts Unknown. Bourdain died in June 2018. Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor, and spent nearly a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain, with whom she coauthored the cookbook Appetites in 2016. She's written about food and travel for the New York Times , GQ , Food & Wine , Lucky Peach , Saveur , Dissent , Roads & Kingdoms , and others, and has worked as an editor at Art Culinaire and Wine Spectator . Klappentext 'Terrific . His love for his subjects - both the food and the cook - sings' Telegraph 'Christ, could Bourdain weave words ... the guy wrote like a poet' Guardian A celebration of the life and legacy of one of the most important food writers of all time - the inimitable Anthony Bourdain Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to the stunning desert solitude of Oman's Empty Quarter - and many places beyond.In World Travel , a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places - in his own words. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid. Additionally, each chapter includes illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook.Supplementing Bourdain's words are a handful of essays by friends, colleagues, and family that tell even deeper stories about a place, including sardonic accounts of traveling with Bourdain by his brother, Chris; a guide to Chicago's best cheap eats by legendary music producer Steve Albini, and more. Vorwort A celebration of the life and legacy of one of the most important food writers of all time - the inimitable Anthony Bourdain Zusammenfassung 'Terrific . His love for his subjects - both the food and the cook - sings' Telegraph 'Christ, could Bourdain weave words ... the guy wrote like a poet' Guardian A celebration of the life and legacy of one of the most important food writers of all time - the inimitable Anthony Bourdain Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to the stunning desert solitude of Oman's Empty Quarter - and many places beyond.In World Travel , a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places - in his own words. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid. Additionally, each chapter includes illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook.Supplementing Bourdain's words are a handful of essays by friends, colleagues, and family that tell even deeper stories about a place, including sardonic accounts of traveling with Bourdain by his brother, Chris; a guide to Chicago's best cheap eats by legendary music producer Steve Albini, and more....

About the author

Anthony Bourdain was the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, and the author of the novels: Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories and Gone Bamboo. His work appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker and Food Arts magazine. He was the host of the international CNN television series Parts Unknown.

Summary

'Terrific . His love for his subjects - both the food and the cook - sings' Telegraph
'Christ, could Bourdain weave words ... the guy wrote like a poet' Guardian

A celebration of the life and legacy of one of the most important food writers of all time - the inimitable Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to the stunning desert solitude of Oman's Empty Quarter - and many places beyond.

In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places - in his own words. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid. Additionally, each chapter includes illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook.

Supplementing Bourdain's words are a handful of essays by friends, colleagues, and family that tell even deeper stories about a place, including sardonic accounts of traveling with Bourdain by his brother, Chris; a guide to Chicago's best cheap eats by legendary music producer Steve Albini, and more.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Bourdain, Anthony Woolever Bourdain, Laurie Woolever
• Assisted by: Wesley Allsbrook (Illustration)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2021
• EAN: 9781526630216
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-3021-6
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Memoirs, Travel writing