And the Monkey Learned Nothing

Dispatches from a Life in Transit

Tom Lutz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

236 Seiten

2016
University of Iowa Press (Verlag)
978-1-60938-449-4 (ISBN)

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Tom Lutz is on a mission to visit every country on earth. And the Monkey Learned Nothing contains reports from fifty of them, most describing personal encounters in rarely visited spots, anecdotes from way off the beaten path. Traveling without an itinerary and without a goal, Lutz explores the Iranian love of poetry, the occupying Chinese army in Tibet, the amputee beggars in Cambodia, the hill tribes on Vietnam’s Chinese border, the sociopathic monkeys of Bali, the dangerous fishermen and conmen of southern India, the salt flats of Uyumi in Peru, and floating hotels in French Guiana, introduces you to an Uzbeki prodigy in the market of Samarkand, an Azeri rental car clerk in Baku, guest workers in Dubai, a military contractor in Jordan, cucuruchos in Guatemala, a Pentecostal preacher in rural El Salvador, a playboy in Nicaragua, employment agents in Singapore specializing in Tamil workers, prostitutes in Colombia and the Dominican Republic, international bankers in Belarus, a teacher in Havana, border guards in Botswana, tango dancers in Argentina, a cook in Suriname, a juvenile thief in Uruguay, voters in Guyana, doctors in Tanzania and Lesotho, scary poker players in Moscow, reed dancers in Swaziland, young camel herders in Tunisia, Romanian missionaries in Macedonia, and musical groups in Mozambique. With an eye out for both the sublime and the ridiculous, Lutz falls, regularly, into the instant intimacy of the road with random strangers.

Tom Lutz is the founder and editor in chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the author of Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums, Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value, Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears and American Nerv ousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History. He teaches at the University of California, Riverside, and lives in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction
Verlagsort	Iowa
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	332 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Bildbände
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-60938-449-0 / 1609384490
ISBN-13	978-1-60938-449-4 / 9781609384494
Zustand	Neuware