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A lively and utterly singular travelogue of the intricate curiosities that are directly within one’s own reach

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"De Maistre pioneered a mode of travel that was to make his name: room travel. Dressed in pink-and-blue pajamas, satisfied within the confines of his own bedroom, Xavier de Maistre was gently nudging us to try, before taking off for distant hemispheres, to notice what we have already seen." -- Alain De Botton
"The late eighteenth century is when modernity (more exactly, the modernities) began. Sterne, Diderot, Rousseau—among the effortlessly brilliant writers of that incandescent era, there still remains Xavier de Maistre to discover or rediscover. His masterpiece, Voyage Around My Room, is one of the most original and mettlesome autobiographical narratives ever written." -- Susan Sontag
"Funny and deceptively profound." -- The Guardian

Voyage Around My Room

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    A Paperback / softback by Xavier de Maistre, Stephen Sartarelli, Richard Howard

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      Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Published 15 April 2016
      ISBN-13 9780811222105
      978-0811222105
      ISBN-10 0811222101

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A lively and utterly singular travelogue of the intricate curiosities that are directly within one’s own reach

      Trade Review
      "De Maistre pioneered a mode of travel that was to make his name: room travel. Dressed in pink-and-blue pajamas, satisfied within the confines of his own bedroom, Xavier de Maistre was gently nudging us to try, before taking off for distant hemispheres, to notice what we have already seen." -- Alain De Botton
      "The late eighteenth century is when modernity (more exactly, the modernities) began. Sterne, Diderot, Rousseau—among the effortlessly brilliant writers of that incandescent era, there still remains Xavier de Maistre to discover or rediscover. His masterpiece, Voyage Around My Room, is one of the most original and mettlesome autobiographical narratives ever written." -- Susan Sontag
      "Funny and deceptively profound." -- The Guardian

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