The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia
Autor Alden Jonesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mar 2017
Through personal journeys both interior and across the globe, Alden Jones investigates what motivates us to travel abroad in search of the unfamiliar.
By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship, Jones chronicles her experience as a young American traveler while pondering her role as an outsider in the cultures she temporarily inhabits. Her wanderlust fuels a strong, high-adventure story and, much in the vein of classic travel literature, Jones's picaresque tale of personal evolution informs her own transitions, rites of passage, and understandings of her place as a citizen of the world. With sharp insight and stylish prose, Jones asks: Is there a right or wrong way to travel? The Blind Masseuse concludes that there is, but that it's not always black and white.
By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship, Jones chronicles her experience as a young American traveler while pondering her role as an outsider in the cultures she temporarily inhabits. Her wanderlust fuels a strong, high-adventure story and, much in the vein of classic travel literature, Jones's picaresque tale of personal evolution informs her own transitions, rites of passage, and understandings of her place as a citizen of the world. With sharp insight and stylish prose, Jones asks: Is there a right or wrong way to travel? The Blind Masseuse concludes that there is, but that it's not always black and white.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780299295745
ISBN-10: 0299295745
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10: 0299295745
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
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Recenzii
"Smart, witty, and well traveled, Alden Jones has given us a beautifully written book that honors the wandering spirit in all of us. Take this journey with her and return newly alive to the pleasure of moving through the world."—Ana Menéndez, author of Adios, Happy Homeland!
"Alden Jones is something of a 'Prodigal Daughter,' and she has come home from her long travels to tell us the stories from her own life and education. We both delight and learn from her wisdom and her tales of nine places in the world."—Brian Bouldrey, a
"Alden Jones's refreshing humor, young perspective, and informed cultural awareness make The Blind Masseuse stand out from other travel memoirs. This is a smart and entertaining read."—Lucy Bledsoe, author of The Big Bang Symphony
"Jones takes us straight to the heart and to the resonating pulse of exotic pin dots most of us never have the nerve to explore. In writing both lyric and colloquial, she captures the voices that emerge in each landscape and setting. Her journeys are examined with a growing self-knowledge and a delicious sense of humor. The Blind Masseuse is an expedition into the interior life of a smart, engaging American woman who makes us feel at home no matter how far from home she takes us."—Maria Flook, author of Invisible Eden
"Jones celebrates the impulse to wander and recognizes the value in savoring vagabondage for the gift it ultimately is. An engaging travel memoir. "—Kirkus Reviews
Notă biografică
Alden Jones has lived, worked, and traveled in over forty countries, including as a WorldTeach volunteer in Costa Rica, a program director in Cuba, and a professor on Semester at Sea. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Time Out New York, Post Road, The Barcelona Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, and The Best American Travel Writing. She lives in Boston.
Cuprins
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
Acknowledgments
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
Acknowledgments
Descriere
With sharp insight and stylish prose, Alden Jones recounts her travels in Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship.