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- catalog abstract "The widely acclaimed novelist, essayist, and cultural and social critic is one of the characters in these ten striking pieces, each of which is part memoir, part short story, part sharp observation of the world today. This is a book about contemporary travelers in far-flung places, about the inner compulsion to travel, and about the condition of being a traveler. For the past ten years, Diane Johnson has roamed the world from Taipei to Tanzania to Teheran, from St. Petersburg and Bangkok to Delhi and the Great Barrier Reef. In these pieces she answers dramatically, and with a constantly refreshing wit, the question of why we travel and how travel changes us. In Switzerland, the travelers' willingness to face danger in the name of adventure is made clear as a festive midnight toboggan ride turns into a terrifying slide through a pathless forest ... in London, the author's physician husband discovers that the patient whose life he is. In the middle of saving is an international drug lord ... en route from her daughter's wedding in Paris to her son's in Taipei, the author glimpses a Russia she thought no longer existed. Full of humor and with a nonstop storytelling pull, Natural Opium is a new kind of travel book, pure Diane Johnson.".
- catalog contributor b4058749.
- catalog created "1993, c1992.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993, c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993, c1992.".
- catalog description "Great Barrier Reef -- Wine -- The wildebeest -- Cuckoo clock -- The heart of Pakistan -- Rolex -- Power structures -- White hunter -- Fellow travelers -- In the land of the patriarchs.".
- catalog description "In the middle of saving is an international drug lord ... en route from her daughter's wedding in Paris to her son's in Taipei, the author glimpses a Russia she thought no longer existed. Full of humor and with a nonstop storytelling pull, Natural Opium is a new kind of travel book, pure Diane Johnson.".
- catalog description "Petersburg and Bangkok to Delhi and the Great Barrier Reef. In these pieces she answers dramatically, and with a constantly refreshing wit, the question of why we travel and how travel changes us. In Switzerland, the travelers' willingness to face danger in the name of adventure is made clear as a festive midnight toboggan ride turns into a terrifying slide through a pathless forest ... in London, the author's physician husband discovers that the patient whose life he is.".
- catalog description "The widely acclaimed novelist, essayist, and cultural and social critic is one of the characters in these ten striking pieces, each of which is part memoir, part short story, part sharp observation of the world today. This is a book about contemporary travelers in far-flung places, about the inner compulsion to travel, and about the condition of being a traveler. For the past ten years, Diane Johnson has roamed the world from Taipei to Tanzania to Teheran, from St.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 234 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Natural opium.".
- catalog identifier "0679413464 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Natural opium.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993, c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : A.A. Knopf,".
- catalog relation "Natural opium.".
- catalog spatial "Foreign countries".
- catalog subject "813/.54 20".
- catalog subject "Americans Foreign countries Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Americans Travel Foreign countries Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3560.O3746 N38 1993".
- catalog subject "Women novelists Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Women novelists, American Travel Foreign countries Fiction.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Great Barrier Reef -- Wine -- The wildebeest -- Cuckoo clock -- The heart of Pakistan -- Rolex -- Power structures -- White hunter -- Fellow travelers -- In the land of the patriarchs.".
- catalog title "Natural opium : some travelers' tales / Diane Johnson.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".