Lawrence Millman has a penchant for traveling to unusual places. In this stylish, erudite, often very funny book, the celebrated travel writer visits the South Pacific, the Canadian Arctic, the largest unknown island in North America, the most remote community in the eastern US and many other places as well. He drinks the Tongan homebrew of kava ; he gets bitten by an army of "war ticks" in Honduras; he is invited by an Inuit family to eat raw seal eye ; and he has a very personal part of his anatomy mocked by Ecuador's Jivaro Indians.
Language
English
Pages
227
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Brookline Books
Release
January 26, 1999
ISBN
1571290559
ISBN 13
9781571290557
An Evening Among the Headhunters: And Other Reports from Roads Less Taken
Lawrence Millman has a penchant for traveling to unusual places. In this stylish, erudite, often very funny book, the celebrated travel writer visits the South Pacific, the Canadian Arctic, the largest unknown island in North America, the most remote community in the eastern US and many other places as well. He drinks the Tongan homebrew of kava ; he gets bitten by an army of "war ticks" in Honduras; he is invited by an Inuit family to eat raw seal eye ; and he has a very personal part of his anatomy mocked by Ecuador's Jivaro Indians.