Walking Backwards

Grand Tours, Minor Visitations, Miraculous Journeys, and a Few Good Meals

Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Mark Frutkin ISBN: 9781554889853
Publisher: Dundurn Publication: August 5, 2011
Imprint: Dundurn Language: English
Author: Mark Frutkin
ISBN: 9781554889853
Publisher: Dundurn
Publication: August 5, 2011
Imprint: Dundurn
Language: English

From Istanbul to New Delhi to Boulder, Colorado, through Venice, Paris, Rome, and points between

As travellers, we are always walking backwards, forever on the verge of stepping into the unknown, never knowing what waits around the next corner.

You could be lost, forget your passport, fall ill. You could be served a bowl of food and not know whether it's animal, vegetable, or mineral. Even flushing the toilet can be an adventure.

You are a child again, innocent and hoping for the best, forced to trust strangers. Quite often this works out. Not always.

Walking Backwards is a return to 10 cities and what happened there. Whether inadvertently smuggling cloth into Istanbul, reading poetry in New Delhi to a crowd expecting a world-famous pianist, or wandering endlessly through Mantua searching for a non-existent hotel on a street that's fallen off the map, Mark Frutkin is a master at rediscovering the magic at the heart of all travel.

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From Istanbul to New Delhi to Boulder, Colorado, through Venice, Paris, Rome, and points between

As travellers, we are always walking backwards, forever on the verge of stepping into the unknown, never knowing what waits around the next corner.

You could be lost, forget your passport, fall ill. You could be served a bowl of food and not know whether it's animal, vegetable, or mineral. Even flushing the toilet can be an adventure.

You are a child again, innocent and hoping for the best, forced to trust strangers. Quite often this works out. Not always.

Walking Backwards is a return to 10 cities and what happened there. Whether inadvertently smuggling cloth into Istanbul, reading poetry in New Delhi to a crowd expecting a world-famous pianist, or wandering endlessly through Mantua searching for a non-existent hotel on a street that's fallen off the map, Mark Frutkin is a master at rediscovering the magic at the heart of all travel.

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