The Blind Masseuse : A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia /
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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Médium: | Elektronický zdroj E-kniha |
Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Madison, Wisconsin :
Terrace Books,
2013
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Obsah:
- 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.