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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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.