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Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing | 
enlarge | Creator: Raphael Kadushin Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Category: Book
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Media: Paperback Edition: 1st Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 288 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5 Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0299197549 Dewey Decimal Number: 910.8664 EAN: 9780299197544 ASIN: 0299197549
Publication Date: February 1, 2004 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: great buy/ Thank you for shopping @Storefrontbooks2u/cover a little scratched & corners bent
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Product Description Living up to its title, Wonderlands comes fueled by wanderlust and features every kind of wonderland. In fact, the collection's contributors--a mix of established gay writers and the best of the new generation--don't settle for the obvious. Focusing on the sheer visceral thrill of travel, the adventure of it, they set out all over the world and always find something unexpected: love, passion, history, themselves. The result is an anthology of dynamic writing that will motivate readers to book their next flight, or at least get them dreaming of other places. And the places are legion. Mack Friedman sets off into the deceptively butch wilds of Alaska. Robert Tewdwr Moss tracks through the back roads of Syria and his own version of Arabian Nights. Colm Toibin discovers a Spanish Brigadoon and Edward Field drinks tea with Paul Bowles. For Wayne Koestenbaum Vienna is both a city of high low culture, and for Philip Gambone Asia becomes a place of second chances. Raphael Kadushin settles into the ethereal sun of a Dutch spring, Michael Lowenthal remembers a jarring encounter in the Scottish Highlands, and Tim Miller tallies the 1001 beds he has slept in all over the world. And Edmund White, in a classic of elegiac travel writing, recounts his harrowing drive through the Sahara with a man he loved. Contributors: Brian Bouldrey, Mitch Cullin, Edward Field, Mack Friedman, Philip Gambone, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Raphael Kadushin, Wayne Koestenbaum, Matthew Link, Michael Lowenthal, Alistair McCartney, J. S. Marcus, David Masello, Tim Miller, Robert Tewdwr Moss, Boyer Rickel, Bruce Shenitz, Colm Toibin, Edmund White
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The Delights of Gay Travel January 17, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Kadushin, Raphael, editor. "Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing", University of Wisconsin, 2004.
The Delights of Gay Travel
Amos Lassen
Raphael Kadushin has compiled nineteen gay writers' personal reflections of travel in "Wonderlands" and it is a pleasure trip of a read. The title could have used another form of the word "wonder" and it would have fit perfectly. "Wonderlands" is wanderlust of features. The authors represented here are a mixture of established gay writers and the best of the new writers and they all have one thing in common--the excitement of travel. They write of all over the world and each manages to find something unexpected. The writing is uniformly good--so good that it makes the reader want to book a flight and get away from it all. The entries all seem to share a link and that seems to me to be that we all travel because we are looking for something. What we find, regardless of what it is, turns out to be a surprise. To me "Wonderlands" was such a surprise--19 surprises in fact--I got to share everyone's and not even have to pack. Edmund White takes us to the Sahara and Tim Miller talks of sleeping all over the world. Michael Lowenthal has an encounter in the highlands of Scotland and Mack Freidman goes to the wilds of Alaska. Syria is visited by Robert Tewdwr Moss and Edward Field has tea with Paul Bowles in Tangier. Colm Tobin writes about an adventure in Spain and Wayne Koestenbaum tours Vienna and sees both sides of the cultural scene there. For Philip Gambone, Asia offers him a new start while Raphael Kadushin spends spring with the Dutch. There are also selections from Brian Bouldrey, Bruce Shenitz, J.S. Marcus, Boyer Rickel, Mitch Cullin, Alistair McCartney, Matthew Link and David Masello. The anthology is compelling and I felt as I learned about a place, I learned about the author and myself as well.
Wonderful Writing September 21, 2004 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book contains great travel writing by some of todays top authors. This is not a sex travel writing, but is eroctic at times as well as humorous and gives the mind plenty to comtemplate. We need more books like this one. Get it and take a trip.
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