How to talk about places you've never been : on the importance of armchair travel / Pierre Bayard ; translated by Michele Hutchison.

"Written in the irreverent style that made How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read a critical and commercial success, Pierre Bayard takes readers on a trip around the world, giving us essential guidance on how to talk about all those fantastic places we've never been. Practical, funn...

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Main Author: Bayard, Pierre, 1954- (Author)
Other Authors: Hutchison, Michele (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published:New York : Bloomsbury, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Various ways of not knowing
  • Places you don't know
  • Places you've been through
  • Places others have talked about
  • Places you've forgotten
  • Talking about travel
  • In the field of anthropology
  • In the media
  • In sporting endeavors
  • In the bosom of the family
  • Procedures to follow
  • Opening up frontiers
  • Time travel
  • Through the mirror
  • Making love
  • Epilogue.