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Getting About
Bill Meehan
Hardback Book  |  Travel Writing  |  01 Jul 2023
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Getting About by Bill Meehan is a Travel Writing Hardback Book.

Well known as a political commentator and the author of sixteen novels, William F. Buckley Jr. was also a superb chronicler of travel.Getting Aboutgathers more than one hundred of his articles about journeys by boat, train, or plane, representing a lifetime of adventure around the world-from Annapolis to Zurich, from the Azores to the Virgin Islands.An elegant jet-setter with a flair for literary journalism, Buckley had few rivals in the art of travel writing. He took first place in the Magazine Article on Foreign Travel category in the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition for eight pieces written while"Concording around the world" in1989. A master storyteller, he adeptlywove devices of fiction together with reportage to craft entertaining pieces full of exuberance and authority. Being a Bach afficionado, he composed his sentences for a well-tuned ear.Buckley's talent for arranging amise-en-scenestands out in accounts of riding the Orient Express, skiing at Alta, or vacationing at Barbuda. Though himself a central character in the story, he never dominates it. He wrote candidly about travel misadventures, as when his sixty-foot schooner broke down in the Bahamas and was towed to Miami by a Coast Guard cutter, or when a malfunctioning compass landed his boat on a rocky shoal off Rhode Island and the Coast Guard said, "Sorry, we can't help you." He also took a gimlet eye to the travel industry and a discriminating palate to airline food, suggesting that airports sell "areallygood box lunch" withceleryremoulade, fresh figs, and a nice Bordeaux.Getting Aboutsuvres legacy as his centenary, in 2025, approaches.

Ideal for readers interested in travel writing.

Title: Getting About

Format: Hardback Book

Release Date: 01 Jul 2023

Author: Bill Meehan

Sku: 3301198

Catalogue No: 9781641773171

Category: Travel Writing


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