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Bezig met laden... The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall (2006)door Lawrence Osborne
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![]() Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. ![]() El autor busca un lugar alejado de la civilización en la isla de Papúa Nueva Guinea, empezando por uno de los destinos mas contaminados de la Tierra, ,como el de Dubái y continuando por las islas Andamán y Tailandia. En Papúa se encuentra en una inmensa isla entre cielos verdes, ríos enrojecidos y volcanes en erupción, en medio de una orgía tribal. I always enjoy a Lawrence Osborne book, somewhat similar to an A.A. Gill book, this time he wrote about travel, tourism, and being a tourist. Are tourists and tourism destroying mystery and paradises around the world, are we becoming so homogeneous that everything needs to be perfectly packaged, a Disney experience if you will. Sadly, probably so, but you can learn and certainly laugh your way through the authors experiences. The book is from 2006, and I would love for him to write a part 2 with a different final destination. This is one of the more satisfying books I have read this year. The author begins with a quick spin through the history of western tourism - proving along the way that he is a traveller, and not a tourist. Subsequent chapters are about his generally amusingly described exploits on his way to the main event, an escorted trip through the remote and often unexplored Irian Jaya. Don't rush to sign up for an adventure in that part of the world - the Indonesians don't encourage visitors and many of the locals have never before seen a person with a white skin. The contrast between this second part of the book and the civilised first which include an expedition to a Bangkok sex change clinic and thalassery provide food for thought. Ah, at last! I’m finished with reading children’s books and I’m back to reading whatever I wish. So for my first trip back into reading what I want I picked this book from my enormous TBR. Osborne is fed up with what he terms Whatever travel, travel that takes you to places that are as indistinguishable as bottled water. He decides to try Papua New Guinea. It’s an excellent choice for someone jaded to travel. If you are seeking being shot at with arrows, swimming with crocodiles, visiting with indigenous people wearing nothing but a shell, then this book might be a good destination for you.
Like many English travel writers, Mr. Osborne has a kind of death wish. By upbringing, he is acutely sensitive to embarrassment, yet he seeks it out wherever he goes. Browsing the cheap-treatment medical clinics in Bangkok, he undergoes a disastrous high-colonic irrigation that recalls the most harrowing moments of "The Poseidon Adventure." He checks into a luxury spa in Hua Hin, on the Gulf of Thailand, where, after sneaking out and bingeing on Thai street food and alcohol, he must look the doctors in the eye and try to explain how he managed to gain weight after a week of strenuous slimming.
From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east--and of the tour itself Sick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself. He took a six-month journey across the so-called Asian Highway--a swathe of Southeast Asia that, since the Victorian era, has seduced generations of tourists with its manufactured dreams of the exotic Orient. And like many a lost soul on this same route, he ended up in the harrowing forests of Papua, searching for a people who have never seen a tourist. What, Osborne asks, are millions of affluent itinerants looking for in these endless resorts, hotels, cosmetic-surgery packages, spas, spiritual retreats, sex clubs, and "back to nature" trips? What does tourism, the world's single largest business, have to sell? A travelogue into that heart of darkness known as the Western mind,The Naked Touristis the most mordant and ambitious work to date from the author ofThe Accidental Connoisseur, praised byThe New York Times Book Reviewas "smart, generous, perceptive, funny, sensible." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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