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

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The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall
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From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic eastâ€”and of the tour itself
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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 Highwayâ€”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.
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What, Osborne asks, are millions of affluent itinerants looking for in these endless resorts, hotels, cosmetic-surgery packages, spas, spiritual retreats, sex clubs, and â€œback to natureâ€ trips? What does tourism, the worldâ€™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 Connoisseu r, praised by The New York Times Book Review as â€œsmart, generous, perceptive, funny, sensible.â€
Country USA
Brand Brand: North Point Press
Manufacturer North Point Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2006-05-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780865477094

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