{"product_id":"2940169407839","title":"My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere","description":"Susan Orlean has been called \"a national treasure\" by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and \"a kind of latter-day Tocqueville\" by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to having written classic articles for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, she was played, with some creative liberties, by Meryl Streep in her Golden Globe Award-winning performance in the film \u003ci\u003eAdaptation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eNow, in \u003ci\u003eMy Kind of Place\u003c\/i\u003e, the real Susan Orlean takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book. In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois-and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality.\u003cbr\u003eWith Orlean as guide, lucky readers partake in all manner of armchair activity. They will climb Mt. Fuji and experience a hike most intrepid Japanese have never attempted; play ball with Cuba's Little Leaguers, promising young athletes born in a country where baseball and politics are inextricably intertwined; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone's favorite whale as he tries to make it on his own; stay awhile in Midland, Texas, hometown of George W. Bush, a place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a New York City school so troubled it's known as \"Horror High\"; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the world. \u003cbr\u003eVivid, humorous, unconventional, and incomparably entertaining, Susan Orlean's writings for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e have delighted readers for over a decade. \u003ci\u003eMy Kind of Place\u003c\/i\u003e is an inimitable treat by one of America's premier literary journalists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104504332528,"sku":"2940169407839","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169407839_p0.jpg?v=1763681574","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169407839","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}