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The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall

The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall

Osborne, Lawrence

Paperback

Travel WritingGeneral SociologySoutheast Asia

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 0865477418
ISBN13: 9780865477414
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: Jun 12 2007
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.66 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

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

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