Wish You Weren't Here!: The Black Cat Anthology of Travel Humor

by Cecil Kuhne (Editor)

An anthology of some of the best writing on the worst of travel, Wish You Weren’t Here! brings together twenty-one fantastic pieces that span the centuries as well as the continents. P. J. O’Rourke attains reverse enlightenment on India’s Grand Trunk Road. Ludwig Bemelmans hides a toy poodle from an overeager butcher on a luxury ocean liner. Christopher Buckley learns the drawbacks of group travel in the jungles of Belize, and Jerome K. Jerome experiences the downside of traveling with cheese. Edited by Cecil Kuhne, an experienced travel writer and editor of On the Edge and The Armchair Paddler, Wish You Weren’t Here! is a delightful book, a side-splitting read that will remind you why it’s good to be home.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction

336 pages, Paperback

First published July 10, 2007

Reviews

[Bill Ibelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the best travel writing anthology but not the worst. Some really good essays mixed in with a lot of typical, "I went to an obscure place and here's my over the top story of the innefficiencies of the native culture." Ended on a terrific essay by EB White.

Terrible cover art which actually made it embarrasing to read the book in public.

[Gwen · Rating 3 out of 5]

An anthology of travel humor by various British and American writers. Many very funny, a few worth skipping over, but the whole book was worth reading in order to discover Jerome K Jerome and Tony Hawks, 2 of the funniest authors (British of course) in the collection.

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