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An Evening Among Headhunters: Other Reports from Roads Less Traveled
An Evening Among Headhunters Other Reports from Roads Less Traveled Author:Lawrence Millman Lawrence Millman has an unusual penchant for traveling to the farflung corners of the globe, places where you and I would never dream of going. In this stylish, erudite, often extremely funny collection of essays, the celebrated travel writer visits the islands of the South Pacific, the Canadian Arctic, the largest unknown islands in North Ameri... more »ca, and the only community in the eastern U.S. not connected to anywhere else by road. He drinks the Tongan home brew of Kava ("like a blend of liquefied mud and muddy rainwater with a dollop of dental anaesthesia thrown in for good measure"); gets bitten by "war ticks" in Honduras ("I couldnt write in my journal unless I paused every few seconds to itch an ankle, an armpit, or a flank"); visits the wettest island in the world; is invited by a hospitable Inuit family to dine on raw seal eye (it "met my gaze with a distinctly unhappy gaze of its own"); and has a very personal part of his anatomy mocked by Ecuadors Jivaro Indians. Wherever this Pied Piper goes, you are sure to be entertained by his surprising encounters and his rhapsodic, wry, romantic, and opinionated observations. So join him in this remarkable odyssey to the ends of the earth.« less