Eric Hansen is an intrepid traveller with a keenly perceptive eye and an appreciation for the odd and unusual. He will go anywhere, try anything, and always manages to capture something remarkable in the doing. In this extraordinary book, Hansen writes about drinking mind-altering kava in Vanuatu, his heart-rending experience as a volunteer working amongst the poor and the dying in Mother Teresa's Calcutta sanctuary. He joins a grieving husband's search for his dead wife's wedding ring at a crash site in the Borneo rain ...
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Eric Hansen is an intrepid traveller with a keenly perceptive eye and an appreciation for the odd and unusual. He will go anywhere, try anything, and always manages to capture something remarkable in the doing. In this extraordinary book, Hansen writes about drinking mind-altering kava in Vanuatu, his heart-rending experience as a volunteer working amongst the poor and the dying in Mother Teresa's Calcutta sanctuary. He joins a grieving husband's search for his dead wife's wedding ring at a crash site in the Borneo rain forest, and recounts his own miraculous survival of Cyclone Tracy on a fishing boat off the north coast of Australia. He befriends an elderly Russian woman who prepared dinner for Balanchine and Stravinsky in her tiny Manhattan kitchen while drug-dealers were shot to death in the lobby below, spends time with an ornithologist studying the sex-lives of banana-slugs, and takes topless dancers on bird-watching expeditions. The best, most enduring travel writers don't invite readers to merely view vistas through other eyes, but take the trip further, deep into the psychology of place. Hansen does just that in this lyrical collection that is equal parts travelogue, memoir and anthropological treatise. Over 30,000 copies sold of Orchid Fever International author tour First serial already sold as part of high-profile publicity campaign Point of sale and national advertising
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
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Fair. An acceptable and readable copy. All pages are intact, and the spine and cover are also intact. This item may have light highlighting, writing or underlining through out the book, curled corners, missing dust jacket and or stickers.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 228 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners.
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Fine Condition in Fine jacket. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Travel; ISBN: 0375421262. ISBN/EAN: 9780375421266. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23444.
By the time my copy of Lap Dancer arrived through Alibris, I had read one of Eric Hansen's earlier books, Stranger In The Forest On Foot Across Borneo. I wanted to buy and read everything Hansen has written after hearing him read an excerpt from Lap Dancer (pp. 17-18) on Public Radio's "What Do You Know? this Spring and ordered a copy of each book available, based on that reading and interview. Hansen shares his gift of explaining through example unexpected joys and personal growth resulting from his showing humanity to his fellow men and women in his experiences through acceptance, appreciation, and incorporation of local customs and cultures. Read all you can by him. You will be glad you did!