Author and explorer James Michael Dorsey has spent two decades visiting the world’s most remote tribal cultures. In BABOONS FOR LUNCH and Other Sordid Adventures, he tells his remarkable travel stories in rollicking accounts that keep readers off balance and eager for more.
Many stories are funny, others are poignant, and quite a few are heart stopping, while others are unique insights into remote ways of life most of the world does not know exists.
In this book the reader will climb a remote volcano in Ethiopia, cross the Sahara Desert with nomads, undergo a tribal exorcism, and visit shamans, healers, witch doctors, and holy men.
This is not your average travel book, but an entree to some of the world’s remote corners and people.
Table des matières
Author Preface
Introduction
Chapter 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
Chapter Two, Discoveries and Revelations
Jordan’s Bull
From the Ashes
Remembrance
My Maasai Night
My Mexican Bus
Chapter Three, Adrenalin
Common Ground in the Kasbah
To Live or Die in the Danakil
Conversations with a Caveman
Chapter Four, Emotional Journeys
Remembrance
A Kiss for the Condemned
A Stone for Henry Leman
Homecoming
Limping Home from Kashgar
Chapter Five, Personal Stories
Photo Ops with Buddha
Breaking Bread in Kanas
Kingpin
Of Email and Kings
The Sahara Dialogues
Walking with Markus
Chapter Six, Personal Essays
Listening to the Silence
Thoughts of a World Traveler
Travels with Layla
A propos de l’auteur
James Michael Dorsey is an award-winning author and explorer who has traveled in 48 countries to visit remote cultures before they vanish.
He has written for LONELY PLANET, BBC TRAVEL, BBC WILDLIFE, GEOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS, Chicken SOUP FOR THE SOUL, and is a frequent contributor to UNITED AIRLINES’ HEMISPHERE and PERCEPTIVE TRAVEL. He has also written for COLLIERS, The CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WEND, NATURAL HISTORY, and GONOMAD. He writes for numerous African magazines, and is a travel consultant to BROWN&HUDSON of London, and correspondent for CAMERAPIX INTERNATIONAL of Nairobi.
He is the author of VANISHING TALES FROM ANCIENT TRAILS, and his stories have appeared in 18 anthologies, including THE BEST TRAVEL WRITING volumes 10 and 11, plus the 2016 Lonely Planet Travel Anthology. He has won the grand prize for best travel writing from the Solas Awards, and other awards from TRANSITIONS ABROAD and NOWHERE MAGAZINE.
He is a fellow of the Explorers Club and former director of the Adventurers Club.
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