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

Whether inadvertently smuggling cloth into Istanbul, reading poetry in New Delhi to a crowd expecting a world-famous pianist, or wandering through Mantua searching for a non-existent hotel on a street thats fallen off the map, Mark Frutkin is a master at rediscovering the magic at the heart of travel.

About the author

Mark Frutkin is an award-winning fiction author whose most recent novel, Fabrizio's Return, won the Trillium and Sunburst Awards and was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (Canada/Caribbean Region). In 2008 he published a memoir, Erratic North: A Vietnam Draft Resister's Life in the Canadian Bush. He lives in Ottawa.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Frutkin
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781554889327
• ISBN: 978-1-55488-932-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 228 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic