Laurie McAndish King
Author
Language
English
Description
Whether your taste runs to chocolate or crocodiles, ancient relics or flying saucers, you're sure to find entertainment and illumination in this collection of 21 true travel stories. Join in the author's adventures
as she:
• Makes a pilgrimage to see a 2,500-year-old tooth.
• Considers the fate of a three-legged elephant.
• Learns the chilling secrets of the Jamaica Inn pirates.
• Participates in a shamanic ayahuasca ritual.
• Discovers...
Author
Language
English
Description
These 21 true stories remind us we live in a world filled with wonders! The locations are marvelous: a man-eating lake, the forest home of a three-eyed cannibal, the first labyrinth, a portal to the Uncanny Valley, the perfect site for watching eagle sex...
Even better, the author's interactions with local people raise all kinds of interesting questions, about free will, domestication, compressing time, body image, extinction, memento mori, and rewriting...