{"product_id":"9780857899286","title":"The Traveller's Daybook: A Tour of the World in 366 Quotations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Traveller's Daybook \u003c\/i\u003einvites  you to cross ocean, desert, mountain and ice-cap in the company of the  world's greatest explorers, wanderers and writers...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Fergus Fleming's day-by-day anthology of travel writing ranges widely  across time as well as place: from Christopher Columbus's 'discovery' of  the West Indies in 1492 to Anton Chekhov's journey through Siberia in  the nineteenth century and on to Wilfred Thesiger's wanderings in  Arabia's 'empty quarter' in the 1940s. Each quoted extract is  accompanied by a brief commentary that intro­duces the writer and  establishes the context of the excerpt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Fleming's itinerary offers both a wealth of exotic destinations, and a  many-hued patchwork of moods: the astonishment of the  seventeenth-century diarist John Evelyn on beholding the size of women's  shoes in Venice; the stoic courage of Captain Scott facing death at  forty degrees below zero; the exasperation of Dylan Thomas at find­ing  himself in a 'stifflipped, liverish, British Guest House in puking  Abadan'; and the philosophical introspection of Fridtjof Nansen as he  drifts in an 'interminable and rigid world' of Arctic ice. Here you will  find Napoleon's travel tips to his niece, a flight over Germany with  Hitler, and an ex-pat dinner in Morocco where human blood is served from  the fridge by the pint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Covering the whole calendar, including leap years, these 366 journeys  are by turn lyrical, witty, tragic and bizarre - but always  entertaining.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072143114480,"sku":"9780857899286","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780857899286_p0.jpg?v=1763831161","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780857899286","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}