Eric Hansen is an intrepid traveler with a keenly perceptive eye
and an appreciation for the odd and unusual. He will go anywhere
and try anything. Through it all he manages to capture the most
revealing conversations and the most transporting moments in his
travels, from the Maldives to Sacramento, from Cannes to Borneo and
far beyond.
Hansen writes about the mind-altering experience of drinking kava
in Vanuatu and about heartrending moments working at Mother
Teresa's Home for the Dying Destitute in Calcutta. He joins a
grieving husband searching for his dead wife's wedding ring at a
crash site in the Borneo rain forest. He recounts his miraculous
survival of Cyclone Tracy on a fishing boat off the north coast of
Australia, and he befriends an elderly Russian woman who would
prepare catered dinners for George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky
in her tiny Manhattan kitchen while drug dealers were shot to death
in the downstairs lobby. He spends time with an ornithologist who
studies endangered ants and the sex lives of banana slugs--and
takes topless dancers on bird-watching expeditions.
Each essay is a passionate experience of life refracted through the
eyes and voice of a singularly evocative and original writer.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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