Lights, Camera…Travel!

Lights, Camera…Travel! - Lonely Planet’s On-the-Road Tales from Screen Storytellers

In Lonely Planet’s new travel literature anthology, Lights, Camera…Travel!, 33 of the most widely travelled people in the film industry share personal, inspiring, funny, embarrassing and human experiences from their time on the road:

Jace Alexander * Bob Balaban * Alec Baldwin * Bill Bennett * Bruce Beresford * Sandra Bernhard * Eric Bogosian * Dan Bucatinsky * Robert Connolly * Paul Cox *Joe Cummings * Rolf de Heer * Dana Delany * Anthony Edwards * Richard E Grant

Eileen Heisler * Eilis Kirwan * Neil LaBute * Josh Lucas * Stephanie March * Rick Marin * Andrea Martin * Malcolm McDonald * Dani Klein Modisett * Brett Paesel * Aaron Pedersen * Paulina Porizkova * Nick Ray * Anthony Sattin * John Seale

Jim Sharman * Brooke Shields * Rick Steves

As Editors Andrew McCarthy and Don George explain in their introduction: “The premise behind this anthology is simple: since the ancient Greeks, actors have been society’s storytellers. And ever since Hollywood first left the backlot, these storytellers have been traveling to far-flung corners of the world to tell those tales.”

Andrew McCarthy is a contributing editor at National Geographic Traveler. He’s written for The Atlantic, Travel + Leisure, Men’s Journal, Slate, Afar, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. In 2010 he was awarded the Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalist of the Year. As an actor, he’s appeared in more than two-dozen films, including Pretty in Pink, Less Than Zero, Weekend at Bernie’s, The Joy Luck Club, and The Spiderwick Chronicles. He has starred on Broadway (Side Man), appeared often on TV (Lipstick Jungle), and directed numerous television shows (Gossip Girl).

Don George has edited five previous Lonely Planet literary anthologies. He also wrote the Lonely Planet Guide to Travel Writing. Don has been global travel editor for Lonely Planet, travel editor at the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle and founder and editor of Salon.com’s Wanderlust. He is currently contributing editor and book review columnist for National Geographic Traveler, special features editor and blogger for Gadling.com and editor of the online literary travel magazine Recce (www.geoex.com/recce). Don appears frequently as a travel expert on television and radio and hosts a national series of on-stage conversations with prominent writers. He is also cofounder and chairman of the annual Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference.

Lonely Planet’s

Lights, Camera…Travel!

Available October 2011

RRP: AU$2499/NZ$32

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