{"product_id":"abroad-9780195030686","title":"Abroad","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is the most interesting and insightful book that I have read on travel writing, and my students seem to agree.\"--Jonathan Smith, Texas A \u0026amp; M University\u003cbr\u003e\"Abroad is an exemplary piece of criticism. It is immensely readable. It bristles with ideas. It disinters a regal lost masterpiece from the library stacks. It admits a whole area of writing-at last!-to its proper place in literary history.\"--The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"What Fussell has done-brightly, wittily, with bravura display of critical methods-is to reclaim for travel writing a large measure of literary respectability.\"--Newsweek\u003cbr\u003e\"[Fussell's] book is a fitting substitute for the real thing; it is a journey in time and space, offering the serendipitous pleasure of the open road.\"--Time\u003cbr\u003e\"An absolutely dazzling continent of sociology, literary criticism, cultural history, biography and amusing anecdote, so borderlessly fused that we hardly realize what great intellectual distances we are covering.\"The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] witty book that bristles with outrageous assertions....Fussell obviously enjoys the act of writing about his reading, which is what makes the book so lively.\"--The Tribune (London)","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766799696215,"sku":"9780195030686","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780195030686.jpg?v=1758711304","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/abroad-9780195030686","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}