The Blind Masseuse : A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia / Alden Jones.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Madison, Wisconsin : Terrace Books, 2013Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (192 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780299295738
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Contents:
Introduction : The charm of the unfamiliar -- Lard is good for you (Costa Rica) -- A normal American life (New York) -- Coke is it (Bolivia) -- The blind masseur (Costa Rica) -- One side of the story (Nicaragua) -- The answer was no (Cuba) -- This is not a cruise (around the world) -- How to be a tourist (Cambodia) -- The Burmese dreams series (Burma) -- I know what you did in Egypt : a letter to Gustave Flaubert (Egypt) -- Afterword.
Summary: By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship, the author chronicles her experience as a young American traveler while pondering her role as an outsider in the cultures she temporarily inhabits.
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Introduction : The charm of the unfamiliar -- Lard is good for you (Costa Rica) -- A normal American life (New York) -- Coke is it (Bolivia) -- The blind masseur (Costa Rica) -- One side of the story (Nicaragua) -- The answer was no (Cuba) -- This is not a cruise (around the world) -- How to be a tourist (Cambodia) -- The Burmese dreams series (Burma) -- I know what you did in Egypt : a letter to Gustave Flaubert (Egypt) -- Afterword.

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By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship, the author chronicles her experience as a young American traveler while pondering her role as an outsider in the cultures she temporarily inhabits.

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