Suzanne Roberts

Bad Tourist

Misadventures in Love and Travel

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of travel-inspired essays takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 341g
• ISBN-13: 9781496222848
• ISBN-10: 1496222849
• Artikelnr.: 59185697

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Roberts is the author of Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Nebraska, 2012) and four collections of poetry. She was named the Next Great Travel Writer by National Geographic’s Traveler, and her work has been published in Best Women’s Travel Writing and listed as Notable in Best American Essays. She teaches for the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Sierra Nevada University. Visit her website: suzanneroberts.net.

Inhaltsangabe

SIGHTS
The Love Test
Scared Shitless
My Mother Is My Wingman
Three Hours to Burn a Body
SLEEPING
Hotel Cádiz
Loving the Lie
The Call of the Coquí
Fourteen One-Night Stands
EATING AND DRINKING
Gone Missing
One Degree of Separation
The Peruvian Blackout
One Hundred Boyfriends
SPAS AND BEAUTY TREATMENTS
Prague and the Unbearable Lousiness of the Tourist
Stretching the Thigh Fat
Bellagio People
Knowing the Words by Heart
ACTIVITIES
Skiing the Fall Line
The Illuminations
Mating Season
Jungle Love
Bargaining, or the Third Stage of Grief
FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL EVENTS
In Search of Genghis Khan
Odds Are
The Grand Elephant Festival
Coming of Age in the Guna Yala Islands
GETTING THERE AND AWAY
Dangerous for a Woman Alone
A Wee Scottish Tour
Scary Flyer
El Borracho
DANGERS AND ANNOYANCES
The Riffraff in the Magical Kingdom
Middle-Aged Vagabonding
Sassy at Burning Man
Hiking Home
Acknowledgments
Source Acknowledgments