Try to get lost [electronic resource] : essays on travel and place / Joan Frank.

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"Through the author's travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media's depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word "hotel," and the cease...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frank, Joan, 1949- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2020.
Series:River teeth literary nonfiction prize
Subjects:
Frank, Joan, > 1949- > Travel > United States.
Frank, Joan, > 1949- > Travel > Europe.
United States > Description and travel > Anecdotes.
Europe > Description and travel > Anecdotes.
Genre:
Anecdotes.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2020 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2020 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Prologue. The where of it
  • Shake me up, Judy
  • Cake-frosting country
  • Cake-frosting coda : the astonishment index
  • In case of Firenze
  • A bag of one's own
  • Cave of the iron door
  • Red state, blue state : a short, biased lament
  • Today I will fly
  • Little traffic light men
  • Place as answer : HGTV
  • Rules for the well-intended
  • Think of England
  • Location sluts
  • The room where it happens
  • Lundi matin
  • Coda. I see a long journey.