What We Loved This Week: Airworld, ‘Planet China’ and ‘The Great Outdoors’
Our contributors share a favorite travel-related experience from the past seven days.
Pam Mandel
I could not put down J. Maarten Troost’s Lost on Planet China. I’ve never been talked out of wanting to go somewhere quite like this. Troost’s book is funny, disarming, candid, and totally unromantic, While Troost is pretty much game for anything, including live squid for dinner, he never once pretends to understand the sprawling, inscrutable mess that is modern China. The book would make a terrific airplane read, but not on that flight to Shanghai—you might never leave the airport.
Tom Swick
I loved that this week saw Roger Federer move effortlessly from colloquial French to fluent English and back again—neither one his native language—while accepting his first French Open trophy. Tennis players tend to be good linguists (with the exception of the Americans), or at least good at learning English (with the exception of Nadal) but in speaking as in playing, Federer excels.
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