The Naked Tourist
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780641938801 (0641938802)
Publish date: May 30th 2006
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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...