An Evening Among the Headhunters: And Other Reports from Roads Less Taken
by Lawrence Millman
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"Lawrence Millman has a penchant for traveling to unusual places. In this stylish, erudite, often very funny book, the celebrated travel writer visits the South Pacific, the Canadian Arctic, the largest unknown island in North America, the most remote community in the eastern US and many other places as well. He drinks the Tongan homebrew of kava ("like a blend of liquefied mud and muddy rainwater with a dollop of dental anaesthesia thrown in for good measure"); he gets bitten by an army of show more "war ticks" in Honduras; he is invited by an Inuit family to eat raw seal eye (it "met my gaze with a distinctly unhappy gaze of its own"); and he has a very personal part of his anatomy mocked by Ecuador's Jivaro Indians."--BOOK JACKET. show lessTags
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How did Millman manage to find such remote spots in the world? It's not like you can advertise and have people tell you about these places. Nevertheless, somehow Millman did find these odd places and visited them. The stories he tells while visiting here and there, way, way, way off the map, edge into the unbelievable. I read and read and read. After I finished each chapter, I'd draw another big red X on my map of places I someday want to visit; Millman's taken me about as close to these spots as I ever want to go.
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Lawrence Millman is the author of sixteen books, including such titles as Last Places, Lost in the Arctic, An Evening Among Headhuters, andmost recentlyGiant Polypores Stoned Reindeer. His artistes have appeared in National Geographic, Outside, Smithsonian, Atlantic Monthly, and Sports Illustrated He is a Fellow of the Explorers Club and has a show more mountain named after him in East Greenland. show less
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