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| My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere | 
 enlarge | Author: Susan Orlean
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 408428
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0812974875
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.4
EAN: 9780812974874
ASIN: 0812974875
Publication Date: October 11, 2005
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Condition: Visible shelf wear -- may have some notes/markings on pages
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Product Description
Susan Orlean has been called “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and “a kind of latter-day Tocqueville” by The New York Times Book Review. In addition to having written classic articles for The New Yorker, she was played, with some creative liberties, by Meryl Streep in her Golden Globe Award—winning performance in the film Adaptation.
Now, in My Kind of Place, the real Susan Orlean takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book. In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois–and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality.
With Orlean as guide, lucky readers partake in all manner of armchair activity. They will climb Mt. Fuji and experience a hike most intrepid Japanese have never attempted; play ball with Cuba’s Little Leaguers, promising young athletes born in a country where baseball and politics are inextricably intertwined; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone’s favorite whale as he tries to make it on his own; stay awhile in Midland, Texas, hometown of George W. Bush, a place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a New York City school so troubled it’s known as “Horror High”; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the world.
Vivid, humorous, unconventional, and incomparably entertaining, Susan Orlean’s writings for The New Yorker have delighted readers for over a decade. My Kind of Place is an inimitable treat by one of America’s premier literary journalists.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Not what I was expecting April 3, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I normally love travel essays, but this one was unexpectedly boring. The cover made me think it was going to be thrilling and exciting, but it was just a bunch of articles the author had published elsewhere and lumped into this book.
I only got through the first two articles before putting the book down and never picking it up again. I've been looking for a great woman travel writer, but I'm sad to say I didn't find it in Susan Orlean. Perhaps if she'd started the book of with something more interesting to me I'd have been able to get into it more.
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