The Blind Masseuse : A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia /

The Blind Masseuse : A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia /

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By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship, the author chronicles her experience as a young American traveler while pondering her role as an outsider in the cultures she temporarily inhabits.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Alden
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : Terrace Books, 2013
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Jones, Alden > Travel.
Voyages and travels.
Travel.
TRAVEL > Parks & Campgrounds.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL > Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL > Budget.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
journeys.
travel.
Voyages.
Voyage.
Autobiographies.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The charm of the unfamiliar
  • Lard is good for you (Costa Rica)
  • A normal American life (New York)
  • Coke is it (Bolivia)
  • The blind masseur (Costa Rica)
  • One side of the story (Nicaragua)
  • The answer was no (Cuba)
  • This is not a cruise (around the world)
  • How to be a tourist (Cambodia)
  • The Burmese dreams series (Burma)
  • I know what you did in Egypt : a letter to Gustave Flaubert (Egypt)
  • Afterword.

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