The Book of Roads, Phil Cousineau
The Book of Roads, Phil Cousineau
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The Book of Roads
A Life Made from Travel

Author: Phil Cousineau

Narrator: Donald Corren

Unabridged: 8 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2015

Synopsis

Since graduating from college with a journalism degree, Phil Cousineau's wanderlust has driven him to visit nearly one hundred countries as a backpacker, documentary filmmaker, travel writer, photographer, and art and literary tour leader. For him, travel provides what his mentor Joseph Campbell called "the key to the realm of the muses." Author of the bestselling travel book The Art of Pilgrimage, Cousineau continues to crisscross the world as a travel writer, a filmmaker, and the host of Global Spirit.The Book of Roads: A Life Made from Travel is the culmination of a lifetime of travel experiences, from the steel factories of Detroit to headhunting villages in the Philippines, the war-torn villages in the Balkans to the river roads of Canada once traversed by his voyageur ancestors. His rhapsodic travel stories place him in the league of fellow travelers who are also masterful writers, such as Pico Iyer, Jack Kerouac, Jan Morris, and Beryl Markham.

About Phil Cousineau

Phil Cousineau is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, teacher and editor, independent scholar and travel leader, storyteller and television host. He lectures frequently on a wide spectrum of topics that reflect his mythic journeys, including mythology, movies, writing, mentorship, beauty, travel, sports, and creativity. Currently the host of Link TV’s Global Spirit series, Cousineau has published more than two dozen nonfiction books and has fifteen scriptwriting credits to his name. His books have been translated into nine languages. An expert on mythology and film and the “hero journey” structure of screenplays, Cousineau consults on writing projects of all kinds. He lives in San Francisco.

About Donald Corren

Donald Corren is an audiobook narrator and a New York actor with leading credits on and Off-Broadway, as well as numerous television appearances. On Broadway, he costarred with Judy Kaye in the critically acclaimed production of Souvenir, and replaced Harvey Fierstein in the seminal production of Torch Song Trilogy. His Off-Broadway appearances include The Soap Myth, Dietrich & Chevalier, The Last Sunday in June, Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night, and the original New York production of Tomfoolery. His television credits include eight seasons as forensic tech Medill on NBC’s Law & Order, as well as his current role as Dr. Kurian on Syfy’s Z Nation.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Connie on June 05, 2020

So random! No rhyme or reason to these stories at all! I didn't like this book.......more

Goodreads review by Studebhawk on October 09, 2016

The Book of Roads This is a collection of on the road stories that the author illuminates with depth, perception and great skill. There mere moments while reading this book that I actually stopped and savored the words that jumped up from the page and cascaded over me in pure wonderment. The author’......more

Goodreads review by Anna on April 30, 2016

This was not what I was expecting when I started this book. I was expecting a series of stories or anecdotes from his travels. Instead it was a series of thoughts, brief descriptions, remaniscences of things from his travels. Not until the last section could the episodes be called "stories". The wri......more

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