The Wanderers: Doug Mack on Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide and Tom Swick on The Best American Travel Writing
Sunday, Nov. 18, 12:30 p.m., Room 8316 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Doug Mack
When Doug Mack picked up a 1963 edition of Europe on Five Dollars a Day, he stumbled on an inspired idea: to boldly go where millions have gone before, relying only on the advice of a travel guide that's nearly a half century out-of-date. Add to the mix his mother's much- documented grand tour through Europe in the late 1960s, and the result is Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide (Perigree Trade, $15.00) "Refreshing in its intelligence, candor, good-humored self-deprecation, and insightful redemption of the much-maligned tourist. Mack is a freelance writer based in Minneapolis and specializing in travel, food, design, and culture.
Tom Swick
The Best American Travel Writing 2012 (Houghton, Mifflin Harcourt, $14.95), edited by Jason Wilson and William T. Vollman, features 19 essays that open a window into a world that ranges from the sublime to the seedy. “Vollmann’s 'best' assemblage profoundly extends the reach of the ever-vital and enlightening art of travel writing."-Booklist, starred review. Making his fourth appearing in the anthology, Tom Swick has been the travel editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel since 1989. He s the author of two books: a travel memoir, Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland, and a collection of travel stories, A Way to See the World: From Texas to Transylvania with a Maverick Traveler.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8316 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
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