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Natural Opium: Some Travelers' Tales

by Diane Johnson

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Diane gives an overview of the book:

A collection of ten travel essays. Johnson's destinations include the Great Barrier Reef and Serengeti National Park. All the while, Johnson brings her trademark humor and honesty as she observes human nature and recounts her experiences.

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About Diane

A two-time finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Diane Johnson has drawn comparisons to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton with her comedies of manners about Americans living and loving abroad.

Johnson’s books include L’Affaire (2004...

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Published Reviews

Dec.13.2007

The Customs of the Country

Published by The New York Times

Le Divorce … reminds us that even in our own day it remains, as Henry James said, a complex fate to be an American; that one of the difficulties Americanism still entails is taking up a...

Dec.13.2007

Tour de France

Published by The Washington Post

For [Johnson], Paris is the Paris most Americans dream of, and for visitors eager to get off the beaten track of tourist sites and follow a more intimate and imaginative route, her book will prove a highly...