The Blind Masseuse
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The Blind Masseuse

A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia

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  2. English
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The Blind Masseuse

A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia

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About This Book

Through personal journeys both interior and across the globe, Alden Jones investigates what motivates us to travel abroad in search of the unfamiliar.             By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship, Jones chronicles her experience as a young American traveler while pondering her role as an outsider in the cultures she temporarily inhabits. Her wanderlust fuels a strong, high-adventure story and, much in the vein of classic travel literature, Jones's picaresque tale of personal evolution informs her own transitions, rites of passage, and understandings of her place as a citizen of the world. With sharp insight and stylish prose, Jones asks: Is there a right or wrong way to travel? The Blind Masseuse concludes that there is, but that it's not always black and white.Gold Winner for Travel Essays, Foreword Books of the YearGold Medal for Travel Essays, Independent Publisher Book AwardsWinner, Bisexual Book Awards, Bisexual Biography/Memoir CategoryFinalist, Housatonic Book AwardsLonglist of eight, PEN/Diamonstein Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayFinalist, Travel Book or Guide Award, North American Travel Journalists Association

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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780299295738
Topic
Persönliche Entwicklung
Subtopic
Reisen

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction - The Charm of the Unfamiliar
  3. Lard Is Good for You (Costa Rica)
  4. A Normal American Life (New York)
  5. Coke Is It (Bolivia)
  6. The Blind Masseur (Costa Rica)
  7. One Side of the Story (Nicaragua)
  8. The Answer Was No (Cuba)
  9. This Is Not a Cruise (Around the World)
  10. How to Be a Tourist (Cambodia)
  11. The Burmese Dreams Series (Burma)
  12. I Know What You Did in Egypt, A Letter to Gustave Flaubert (Egypt)
  13. Afterword
  14. Acknowledgments