title: Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers
author:  Don George 
description: The intrepid adventurers at Lonely Planet continue to churn out imaginatively clever travel literature. This one combines travel with literary memoir as 32 reasonably well-known fiction writers recall some of their most remarkable experiences on the open road. While Frances Mayes, Joyce Carol Oates, Alexander McCall Smith, and Isabel Allende will be familiar to most, the travels of the lesser-known scribes are just as fascinating and fun. Seasoned editor George has also included a brief introduction to each piece, listing the books and outlining the literary credentials of its author. Armchair travelers will relish taking gorgeous, descriptive trips to Mexico, the Solomon Islands, Rome, Luxembourg, Java, and a host of other exotic and not-so exotic destinations. --Margaret Flanagan
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   **Better than Fiction**
  
  True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
  
  Published by
  
  Lonely Planet Publications
  
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   **Published 2012**
  
  Printed by Hang Tai Printing Company, Hong Kong
  
  Printed in China
  
  Edited by Janet Austin, Kate James
  
  Cover Design by Roberto Devicq
  
  Design by Mark Adams
  
  Layout by Margie Jung
  
  National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
  
  Better than fiction: true travel tales from great fiction writers / edited by
  Don George.
  
  1st Edition.
  
  978 1 74220 594 6 (pbk.)
  
  Voyages and travels.
  
  Travelers’ writings.
  
  George, Donald W.
  
  808.8032
  
  © Lonely Planet and contributors 2012.
  
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