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The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall

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“Vivid, entertaining and often unorthodox . . . An inspired experiment in meta-travel” from the author of The Forgiven, now a major motion picture (Pico Iyer, Los Angeles Times).

From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east—and of the tour itself . . .

Sick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself. He took a six-month journey across the so-called Asian Highway—a swathe of Southeast Asia that, since the Victorian era, has seduced generations of tourists with its manufactured dreams of the exotic Orient. And like many a lost soul on this same route, he ended up in the harrowing forests of Papua, searching for a people who have never seen a tourist.

What, Osborne asks, are millions of affluent itinerants looking for in these endless resorts, hotels, cosmetic-surgery packages, spas, spiritual retreats, sex clubs, and “back to nature” trips? What does tourism, the world's single largest business, have to sell? A travelogue into that heart of darkness known as the Western mind, The Naked Tourist is the most mordant and ambitious work to date from the author of The Accidental Connoisseur, praised by The New York Times Book Review as “smart, generous, perceptive, funny, sensible.”

“A biting, highly amusing . . . inquiry into travel and its discontents.” —William Grimes, The New York Times

“As compelling as the narrative are Osborne's literate ruminations on travel and the writings of anthropologists. This Bruce Chatwin readalike is highly recommended for armchair travelers.” —Library Journal

© 2024 North Point Press (E-bog): 9781429934985

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E-bog: 4. juni 2024

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