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Baboons for Lunch : And Other Sordid Adventures / James Michael Dorsey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dorsey, James Michael, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel--Anecdotes.
- Travel.
- Travelers--Anecdotes.
- Travelers.
- Dorsey, James Michael, 1949---Travel.
- Dorsey, James Michael.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (151 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Palo Alto, California : Travelers' Tales, [2018]
- Summary:
- BABOONS FOR LUNCH And Other Sordid Adventures is a rollicking collection of travel stories by an explorer who has spent two decades visiting the most remote tribal societies on earth. It is adventure travel, storytelling, literature, and humor, from the world's most remote corners as an intrepid city dweller encounters ancient peoples for the first time.
- Contents:
- Intro
- What Great Writers are saying about Baboons For Lunch
- Also James Michael Dorsey
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Author's Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE: Humorous Travels
- Monks and Monkey Poop on the Mountain
- Me and Tea in Burma
- Commies, Crickets, and Kitties in China
- Burrowing Beneath Budapest
- Mekong Moonshine
- PART TWO: Discoveries and Revelations
- Jordan's Bull
- From the Ashes
- My Maasai Night
- My Mexican Bus
- A Life Not Chosen
- PART THREE: Adrenalin
- Common Ground in the Kasbah
- To Live or Die in the Danakil
- Conversations with a Caveman
- PART FOUR: Emotional Journeys
- A Kiss for the Condemned
- A Stone for Henry Leman
- Homecoming
- Limping Home from Kashgar
- Death and Remembrance
- PART FIVE: Personal Stories
- Photo Ops with Buddha
- Breaking Bread in Kanas
- Kingpin
- Of Email and Kings
- The Sahara Dialogues
- Walking with Markus
- The Last Muezzin of Timbuktu
- PART SIX: Personal Essays
- Listening to the Silence
- Thoughts of a World Traveler
- Travels with Layla
- Until the Next Journey
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781609521264
- 1609521269
- OCLC:
- 1027196043
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