{"product_id":"9780987164889","title":"Griffith REVIEW 37: Small World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSmall World\u003c\/b\u003e broadens the mind with postcards and intelligence from everywhere at a time when the growth of international air travel has shrunk the definition of proximity and the internet has enabled the globalised media industry to bring distant events and places tantalisingly close. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAffluence has made Australians more mobile than ever. The notion of travel as a recreational pursuit of the wealthy is long past. Last year, a third of the national population travelled abroad, joining almost a billion tourists in the air, on the road, on board ships and trains.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe statistics are mind-boggling, but the full meaning of this in terms of global engagement is more perplexing. Will this extraordinary movement of people aid understanding or exacerbate tensions?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome of Australia's best authors and journalists are featured, including an exclusive extract from Murray Bail's forthcoming novel \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLonely Planet co-founder \u003cb\u003eTony Wheeler\u003c\/b\u003e revisits some of the most troubled regions in the world, taking in Kinshasa, Jerusalem and Haiti; \u003cb\u003eMelissa Lucashenko\u003c\/b\u003e has a strange holiday in Cambodia; \u003cb\u003eStephanie Green\u003c\/b\u003e finds herself an unwitting witness to history while visiting Egypt; and \u003cb\u003eJane Goodall\u003c\/b\u003e reflects on the recovery of Bucharest. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Dapin reports\u003c\/b\u003e on the perils of travelling as a journalist;  \u003cb\u003eKate Veitch\u003c\/b\u003e explores our changing relationship with travel and photography as smart phones replace cumbersome cameras; and \u003cb\u003eJoanna Kujawa\u003c\/b\u003e presents a history of wanderlust. \u003cb\u003eLesley Synge\u003c\/b\u003e finds an earthly hell in an island paradise;  \u003cb\u003eGayle Bryant\u003c\/b\u003e reports from the frontlines of a terrorist attack on a luxury hotel; plus stories, poems and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSmall World\u003c\/b\u003e opens a new window on how we live now.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003egriffithreview.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118987526384,"sku":"9780987164889","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780987164889_p0.jpg?v=1763890993","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780987164889","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}