The Lonely Planet guide to experimental travel / Rachael Antony, Joël Henry.

ISBN:

9781741044508

Title:

Author:

Antony, Rachael.

Personal Author:

Antony, Rachael.

Publication Information:

Melbourne : Lonely Planet, 2005.

Physical Description:

276 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

General Note:

"With over 40 experiments to try, an enthralling history of experimental travel, interviews with our expert authors - including the founder of Latourex, an organisation dedicated to experimental travel - and reports by intrepid experimenters, you'll be perfectly equipped for the open road"--Back cover.

Subject Term:

Travel -- Guidelbooks.

Games for travelers -- Guidebooks.

Added Author:

Henry, Joel.

Format:

Books

Publication Date:

2005

Publication Information:

Melbourne : Lonely Planet, 2005.

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The new phenomenon of experimental tourism, developed by Joel Henry, founder of the Laboratory of Experimental Tourism, has turned the way we travel on its head.Humorous, engaging and practical, Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel encourages travellers to experience different ways of seeing and behaving, to be open to new experiences and to let chance be the guide.Part philosophy, part guide to a new way of travelling, this user-friendly, tongue-in-cheek manual-style book includes 60 practical experiments to follow-great for exploring new places or even for gaining a new perspective on your own city. Experimental Travel comes with helpful, funny illustrations and diagrams, blank pages for notes and protective plastic sleeves for use on the road."Sick of sightseeing? Tired of tour guides? Then why not try experimental tourism, a novel approach to travel that starts with a quirky concept and can lead anywhere from Bora Bora to a bus stop." -CNN.com

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Publisher's Weekly Review

Those aching for a relief from packaged tours or Club Med vacations would do well to pick up this out-of-the-ordinary guide. It's a manual for "experimental travel," a "playful" and "pleasingly vague" style of vacation, "where the journey's methodology is clear but the destination may be unknown." For example, Aesthetic Travel (which gets the lowest score for degree of difficulty) has readers creating an artistic record of their trip in a systematic but uncommon way, whether by photographing the fire station in every new town they visit or writing a poem in every main square. Trip Poker is riskier: four people roll the dice, and the winner gets to choose the destination; the loser pays for the weekend. It's a gimmick, but at least it's an entertaining one: for each experiment (and there are more than 40) comes a report written by a contributor or one of the authors, as well as b&w photos and illustrations with a quirky, Victorian bent. Antony and Henry are well-traveled journalists with plenty of experience, and they certainly get points for originality. If nothing else, their unusual book reminds us of the joy of discovery. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

What is Experimental Travel?	p. 4
How to Use This Book	p. 5
Q & A with Rachael & Joel	p. 6
A Potted History of Experimental Travel	p. 13
Latourex: Le Laboratoire de Tourisme Experimental	p. 25
Experimental Quiz	p. 33
Experiments and Laboratory Results	p. 35
1 Aesthetic Travel	p. 36
2 Airport Tourism	p. 42
3 Alternating Travel	p. 48
4 Anachronistic Adventure	p. 52
5 Ariadne's Thread	p. 56
6 Automatic Travel	p. 62
7 Backpacking at Home	p. 66
8 Barman's Knock	p. 72
9 Blind Man's Buff Travel	p. 76
10 Budget Tourism	p. 80
11 Bureaucratic Odyssey	p. 86
12 Chance Travel	p. 90
13 Confluence Seeking	p. 96
14 Counter Tourism	p. 100
15 Dog Leg Travel	p. 108
16 Domestic Travel	p. 114
17 Ero Tourism	p. 120
18 Expedition to K2	p. 126
19 Experimental Honeymoon	p. 130
20 Exquisite Corpse Gad About	p. 138
21 Fly By Night	p. 144
22 Horse Head Adventure	p. 150
23 Human Chess	p. 156
24 Literary Journey	p. 160
25 Lyrical Tourism	p. 166
26 Mascot Travel	p. 170
27 Monopoly Travel	p. 176
28 Nostalgia Trip	p. 180
29 Opus Touristicus	p. 188
30 Red Carnation Crusade	p. 194
31 Rent a Tourist	p. 200
32 Slight Hitch Travel	p. 204
33 Slow Return Travel	p. 208
34 Synchronised Travel	p. 212
35 Taking a Line for a Walk	p. 218
36 Thalasso Experimental	p. 226
37 Travel Pursuit	p. 230
38 Trip Poker	p. 234
39 Twelve Travel	p. 238
40 Voyage to the End of the Line	p. 242
Appendices	p. 247
Yellow Arrow	p. 249
The Travel Pie	p. 260
The World's Your Oyster	p. 271
Acknowledgments	p. 274

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