The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall
Lawrence Osborne,Paperback - First Edition, Edition: 1, English-language edition,Pub by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Lawrence Osborne,Paperback - First Edition, Edition: 1, English-language edition,Pub by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780865477414 (0865477418)
Publish date: June 12th 2007
Publisher: North Point Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Sick of producing the picturesque bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself by taking a six-month journey down the so-called "Asian Highway"--a swath of Southeast Asia that, since the Victorian era, has seduced g...
Ah, at last! I’m finished with reading children’s books and I’m back to reading whatever I wish. So for my first trip back into reading what I want I picked this book from my enormous TBR. Osborne is fed up with what he terms Whatever travel, travel that takes you to places that are as indistinguish...