Holidays in Heck / P.J. O'Rourke.
A follow-up to "Holidays in Hell" collects classic travel pieces written throughout the author's post-retirement years, a period marked by his haphazard journeys with and without family to such regions as China, Kyrgyzstan, and America.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802119858
- ISBN: 9781611856040
- Physical Description: xvii, 265 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press ; 2011.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1 Republicans Evolving: The Galapagos Islands, April 2003 7 -- 2 Monumnetal Generations: The National World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C., June 2004 17 -- 3 Round on the Ends and "Hi!" in the Middle: Ohio Skiing, February 2005 23 -- 4 Riding to the Hounds versus Going to the Dogs: Britain after the Hunting Ban, March 2005 35 -- 5 My EU Vacation: Reading the European Constitution on a French Beach, Guadeloupe, May 2005 53 -- 6 On First Looking into the Airbus A380: Toulouse, June 2005 59 -- 7 If You Think Modern Life Is Awful, You Haven't Seen Modern Art: Venice Biennale, July 2005 75 -- 8 My Wife's Got a Gun: Brays Island Plantation, South Carolina, February 2006 85 -- 9 A Freedom Ride through China: Spring 2006 95 -- 10 Side Trip Up the Yangtze: June 2006 127 -- 11 A Horse of a Different Color: Kyrgyzstan, July 2006 141 -- 12 Sweet-and-Sour Children and Twice-Fried Parents to Go: Hong Kong, December 2007 159 -- 13 Big Stick, or Why I Voted for John McCain: USS Theodore Roosevelt, April 2008 177 -- 14 White Man Speak with Forked Tongue: The Field Museum, Chicago, May 2008 187 -- 15 Decline and Fall of Tomorrow: Disneyland, June 2008 199 -- 16 A Journey to ... Let's Not Go There: Summer 2008 213 -- 17 Seventy-Two-Hour Afghan Expert: Kabul, July 2010 227 -- 18 Capital Gains: Washington, D.C., August 2010 253 -- 19 Home Unalone: New Hampshire, March 2011 263.
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