Here and There: Collected Travel Writing - Softcover

 

From acclaimed writer AA Gill comes this collection of travel pieces selected from his monthly column in Australian Gourmet Traveller?"AA Gill Is Away." Far from standard travel writing fare, these pieces touch on tourism, airports, world cuisine, and countries including Madagascar, Iceland, and Albania. Gill's perspective is often controversial and always unique. He ponders Italy's ability to turn organized crime into a tourist attraction, stumbles upon lobster-shaped coffins in Ghana, contemplates the Darwinian drive of bastardized dishes around the globe, wonders why the ubiquitous croissant and cappuccino are not what they used to be, and considers the great black lake of tears that immigration leaves behind. With an introduction and an extra piece written exclusively for this collection, this showcase of the very best of Gill's hilarious and insightful travel writing is a must read for anyone who is curious about the world we live in.