Approaching the Cosmos Hotel is a compendium of travels, an odyssey
through much of the world over many years, a memoir that explores
events, cultures, gastronomy, architecture and art through the
critical lens of a man who doesn't take himself too seriously.
Robert Champ's experiences humorously expose the fools, hypocrites
and outre characters he encounters: out-of-their-element expats in
Mexico and Spain, tourists in Russia or China who might better have
stayed home, rigid officialdom everywhere. Fascinating landscapes
and personalities limn these pages, and the armchair adventurer
seeking an unconventional narrative will have no trouble finding it
here. New Author Bio: Robert Champ has traveled widely in the
Americas and Europe, navigated the upper Amazon and the Yangtze,
survived narrow, precipitous roads in the Caucasus. Add to this a
humorless dominatrix of an Intourist guide, plus true-believing,
leering comrades at intimidating customs checkpoints (was I
bringing in a Bible? a Playboy?), and we recognize we're in the
dark old Soviet Union. The author was born in the Midwest on the
eve of WWII. After some Pacific excursions courtesy of the US Navy,
he eventually settled in California. He lives in San Francisco.
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