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23%OFFGeoff Dyer - White Sands - 9781782117421 - V9781782117421
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White Sands

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Description for White Sands Paperback. In the spirit of Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It, his bestselling book about travel, Geoff Dyer is back on the road. Num Pages: 256 pages, Colour plate section and black and white photos. BIC Classification: DN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
SHORTLISTED FOR STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR From a trip to The Lightning Field in New Mexico, to chasing Gauguin's ghost in French Polynesia, White Sands is a creative exploration of why we travel. Episodic, wide-ranging and funny, Geoff Dyer blends travel writing, essay, criticism and fiction with a smart and cantankerous wit that is unmatched. From one of the most original writers in Britain, this is a book for armchair travellers and procrastinating philosophers everywhere.

Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782117421
SKU
V9781782117421
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Ref
99-99

About Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts ... Read more

Reviews for White Sands
Brilliant . . . Dyer's eyes miss nothing
PETER CONRAD

Observer

An examination of some of the most fundamental questions of life . . . Inspiring and informing

Guardian

Even Chekhov might have envied Geoff Dyer's talent . . . Almost perfect
JAN MORRIS
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Goodreads reviews for White Sands


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