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Lost Cosmonaut (Paperback, Main)
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Lost Cosmonaut (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R307
Discovery Miles 3 070
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'As the world has become smaller so its wonders have diminished.
There is nothing amazing about the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of
China or the Pyramids of Egypt. They are as banal and familiar as
the face of a Cornflakes packet. The true unknown frontiers lie
elsewhere. The duty of the traveller, of the voyager, is to open up
new zones of experience. In our over explored world these must of
necessity be wastelands, black holes, and grim urban blackspots:
all the places which, ordinarily, people choose to avoid. THE ONLY
TRUE VOYAGERS, THEREFORE, ARE ANTI-TOURISTS.' Lost Cosmonaut
documents Daniel Kalder's travels in the bizarre and mysterious
worlds of Russia's ethnic republics. Obsessed with a quest he never
fully understands, Kalder boldly goes where no man has gone before:
in the deserts of Kalmykia, he stumbles upon a city dedicated to
chess and a forgotten tribe of Mongols; in Mari El, home to
Europe's last pagan nation, he meets the Chief Druid and
participates in an ancient rite; while in the bleak industrial
badlands of Udmurtia, Kalder looks for Mikhail Kalashnikov,
inventor of the AK47, and accidentally becomes a TV star. Profane
yet wise, utterly honest and yet full of lies, Lost Cosmonaut is an
eye-opening, blackly comic tour of the most alien plant in our
cosmos: Earth.
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