As we jet off on holiday, passing from airport lounge to hotel in our desperation to escape our everyday lives and find some better weather, we'd do well to ask ourselves what on earth we're doing. Do we really travel any more, or do we just arrive? The Idle Traveller calls on us to re-assess why we travel and what travel has become. Besides extolling the virtues of staycation holidaying, Dan Kieran argues we need to bin the brochure, glide rather than fly, embrace disaster, be epic in our travel pursuits and immerse ourselves in the life-changing experience of true journeying. The Idle Traveller is an inspiration to travel more meaningfully and enjoy the journey. Isn't it about time you allowed your travel plans to slow down?
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'a brilliant insight...deeply alluring...all beautifully told. Wherever you travel, you'd gain a lot from reading this book.'***** --Telegraph
'Dan Kieran is spot on...a timely, thoughtful, even important book.' --Daily Mail
'thought-provoking and often comical' --Lonely Planet
'the travel guide's equivalent to the horse-drawn carriage: slow, calming, allowing a close-up study of your surroundings' --The Lady
'entertaining and endearing...the importance he places on really travelling will echo with anyone who shudders at the idea of booking a package holiday' --Wanderlust
'Dan Kieran is spot on...a timely, thoughtful, even important book.' --Daily Mail
'thought-provoking and often comical' --Lonely Planet
'the travel guide's equivalent to the horse-drawn carriage: slow, calming, allowing a close-up study of your surroundings' --The Lady
'entertaining and endearing...the importance he places on really travelling will echo with anyone who shudders at the idea of booking a package holiday' --Wanderlust
'Dan Kieran is spot on...a timely, thoughtful, even important book.' --Daily Mail
'thought-provoking and often comical' --Lonely Planet
'the travel guide's equivalent to the horse-drawn carriage: slow, calming, allowing a close-up study of your surroundings' --The Lady
'entertaining and endearing...the importance he places on really travelling will echo with anyone who shudders at the idea of booking a package holiday' --Wanderlust
'Dan Kieran is spot on...a timely, thoughtful, even important book.' --Daily Mail
'thought-provoking and often comical' --Lonely Planet
'the travel guide's equivalent to the horse-drawn carriage: slow, calming, allowing a close-up study of your surroundings' --The Lady
'entertaining and endearing...the importance he places on really travelling will echo with anyone who shudders at the idea of booking a package holiday' --Wanderlust
About the Author
Dan Kieran is a travel writer for The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Observer. He was deputy editor of The Idler from 2000-2010, before co-founding the crowd-funding publishing platform unbound.co.uk that launched in 2011. Dan has written and edited ten books including the best-selling Crap Towns, Crap Jobs and Crap Holidays, I Fought The Law, and is co-author of Three Men In A Float, the story of his slow travel adventure round Britain on a milk float.
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By Trelawney
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The book was recommended to me by friends who knew of my interest in the Slow movement and I wasn't disappointed. Although I enjoyed Carl Honore's seminal 'In Praise of Slow', I found Kieran's book more focussed, readable and humorous. It's much more than a manifesto for the virtues of Slow travel: Kieran's meditations on time, the creative impulse and the way we connect with the landscape can be swallowed in one enjoyable gulp, but deserve and repay re-reading.
I'm giving it to a godson destined for Oxbridge and the City - in the hope that he will slow down on his lightening ascent to adulthood and go for a long walk in Kieran's footsteps first.
I'm giving it to a godson destined for Oxbridge and the City - in the hope that he will slow down on his lightening ascent to adulthood and go for a long walk in Kieran's footsteps first.
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By Big Jim
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This is really excellent book. I only opened it at 6am this morning and have read it all the way through in virtually one sitting. This is not to say it is inconsequential or "light" it is just such an engaging, humerous yet sharp read, one that deserves to be read outdoors if the weather would only let us. This book extolls the virtue of a train journey rather than a flight, a walk rather than a drive, the beauties of the British countryside, the iniquities of guidebooks, the stories of previous travellers and much, much more. This book may not have the literary depth or the in depth analysis found in much other travel literature but is all the better for it as a fun and knowing look at travel and the belief of the author that the journey is more important than the destination
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By TinyTim74
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I read this book in one sitting and loved it. I feel completely differently about how I'd like to spend my free time after reading it, which doesn't happen often. I also found it hugely endearing that in amongst all this perceptive and intelligent stuff about, for example, how our brains respond to a travelling challenge, are little stories about the author's own travelling experiences - some funny, some totally disastrous, but all of them ending up seemingly amazing experiences. Have already pressed it into the hands of a good friend to read and recommended it to several others.
On top of that the book itself is a really beautiful thing - I would have bought it on the cover alone.
On top of that the book itself is a really beautiful thing - I would have bought it on the cover alone.
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Travelling Now
A pleasant (not too fast) ride around the concept of travel, in real time, rather than a hastily digested travel package. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Sabina
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Great interesting read.
Bought for my 65 year old dad who wants to find different ways to travel rather than hanging around airports, he really liked this book.
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Having read Mr Kiernan's previous book about crossing Britain in a milk float, I was looking forward to The Idle Traveller.
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A very idle story...
This book tries to grasp the meaning of travelling by amalgamating bits and pieces of ideas, philosophies and neurology (yes, even neurology! Read more
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A different approach to holiday travel.
I purchased this book hoping it would give me an insight into another world of travel,far removed from the stress of airports and flying. Read more
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Ferris Bueller remarked: "life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it. Read more
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The Cover is the Best Thing About It
I was drawn to this book by its beautiful cover and the because I'm saddened by how travel has often become sterile and boring. Read more
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