The Titanic Awards: Celebrating the Worst of Travel
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0399535845 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 203 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Lansky's new book, The Titanic Awards: Celebrating the Worst of Travel (Perigee Trade) is dedicated 'to all the travelers who overcame annoyances and obstacles to make it to their destinations, and then willingly decided to set out traveling again.' Hey, that's us! And as business travel begins to rebound after a long slump, it's perhaps useful to be reminded that on the road, 'something invariably goes wrong,' as Mr. More precisely, the book is all about things going wrong or things being wrong. Lansky says. That's the point: It's always more inter
takingadayoff said Book Least Likely to Be Sold at the Airport Bookstore. Doug Lansky has traveled enough to realize that no one wants to hear about your marvelous trip - the scenic vistas, the romantic lodgings, the fabulous food. What people really want to hear about is what went wrong and the more disastrous the better. Tell them about your moonlit night on a gondola in Venice and eyes glaze over. Until you get to the part where you fell out of the gondola into the canal.The bad travel experiences in The Titanic Awards don't often result in either hilarity or tragedy. They sometimes are no more than compla. Plenty to beef about, but where's the beef? Brent R. Swanson If you need incentive to stay at home and save your money, there's no better way to get that incentive than to get out and travel long distance, or attempt to travel long distance and watch your connecting flights disappear, and then sit huddled in a cold airport that has no amenities besides overpriced machines filled with superannuated snacks. And when you do get to wherever you were going, you may discover that your luggage is vacationing someplace else. A hefty volume could be written just about air travel. I'm completely on board w. That sinking feeling If you've ever had that sinking feeling that your vacation is going all wrong you can identify with this book. It contains lists such as most hated airport, country with the most harassing street vendors and very short stories; worst exit from a bus, worst carry-on souvenir. The lists and stories were chosen by 2,000 people in 80 countries taking a survey. The black and white photos of airline meals and airline paint schemes add to the distaste of bad travel.Some of the stories are amusing, most are more horrifying than humorous, especi
Doug Lansky, a writer and a traveler, has chronicled his travels around the world in his hilarious and vividly descriptive column, "The Vagabond." His travels have included cruising up the on a cargo ship, living and blowgun hunting with Jaguar Indians in Peru, buying a horse and riding it to Colombia, hitchhiking through Syria and Jordan, where he befriended
Read Doug Lansky's posts on the Penguin Blog."In a nutshell, the Titanic Awards are the Darwin Awards for travel- only nobody dies." -Los Angeles Times Everyone who's ever checked (and lost) their luggage or discovered that their hotel misplaced their reservation knows there are few perfect vacations. The Titanic Awards takes a different approach to these often spectacular travel underachievements: celebrating them. From worst airport layout to most confusing subway system to the most overrated tourist attraction, Lansky looks at these flawed travel destinations with a gimlet eye and a sense of the absurd.