Marco Polo Didn't Go There : Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer.
Marco Polo Didn't Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called?Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age." For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigiou...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sebastopol :
Travelers' Tales,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Introduction; Part One Adventures and Misadventures; 1 Storming The Beach; 2 Road Roulette; 3 Toura Incognita; 4 Be Your Own Donkey; 5 Something Approaching Enlightenment; 6 Turkish Knockout; Part Two I'm a Tourist, You're a Tourist; 7 Tantric Sex for Dilettantes; 8 The Barbecue Jesus and Other Epiphanies; 9 Going Native in the Australian Outback; 10 Backpacker's Ball at the Sultan Hotel; 11 Death of an Adventure Traveler; Part Three The Dubious Thrill of Press Trips; 12 Cycladian Rhythm; 13 Seven (or So) Sins on the Isle of Spice; 14 Virgin Trail.
- Part Four People You Don't Forget15 My Beirut Hostage Crisis; 16 Up Cambodia without a Phrasebook; 17 Islam's Bloody Celebration; 18 Digging Mr. Benny's Dead Uncle; 19 The Living Museum of Everywhere and Nowhere; Part Five Tutorial; 20 The Art of Writing a Story about Walking across Andorra; Acknowledgments; About the Author.