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An Evening Among the Headhunters: And Other Reports from Roads Less Taken

Lawrence Millman

3.7/5 ( ratings)

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

3.7/5 ( ratings)

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

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