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Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers

by Lonely Planet · 2012

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- An exciting new anthology of travel literature - Features international authors, including Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates and DBC Pierre - Brings to life the idea that travel can inspire, entertain, enlighten and change lives

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traveltravelMore like thisLess of thisbiographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
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adventureadventureMore like thisLess of this
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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages
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