![]() ![]() The only thing it’s going to do for you these days is increase your odds of getting mugged. ![]() That crowd-sourced bonanza has made the printed guidebook an anachronism. It’s easier to find an abundance of online information on the best chicken rice in such-and-such covered food court in Singapore than it is to figure how to adequately save for retirement. I could watch those on a loop.Īside from sports news and general bile, no topic is better served by the internet than where to eat. A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer. For veteran travelers, armchair enthusiasts, and those in between, World Travel offers a chance to experience the world like Anthony Bourdain. It did have the salutary effect of sending me back to his shows. In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining. Reading what Bourdain once said aloud just made me miss Bourdain. Along with Martin Scorsese, he was the early 21st-century’s master of the voiceover monologue.īut untethered from the man, even his best lines land flat on the page. ![]() The result is something between a Frommer’s Guide and Schopenhauer’s Essays and Aphorisms.īourdain was a better writer than he was a TV host, which is saying something. Using scripts he wrote for his shows, she has compiled a compendium of Bourdain’s thoughts about the places he visited. His former assistant, Laurie Woolever, talked to him about the specifics of it for only an hour. Anthony Bourdain A guide to some of the worlds most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious. ![]() World Travel was a vague idea when Bourdain died by suicide in 2018. ![]()
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