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The Naked Tourist
North Point Press
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Sick of producing the picturesque bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself by taking a six-month journey down the so-called "Asian Highway"--a swath 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 ends 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 from the West looking for as they wade through 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? The Naked Tourist is a travelogue into that heart of darkness known as the Western mind.
- | Author: Lawrence Osborne
- | Publisher: North Point Press
- | Publication Date: June 12, 2007
- | Number of Pages: 294 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0865477418
- | ISBN-13: 9780865477414
- Author:
- Lawrence Osborne
- Publisher:
- North Point Press
- Publication Date:
- June 12, 2007
- Number of pages:
- 294 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0865477418
- ISBN-13:
- 9780865477414