The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia [Hardcover]

Author: Alden Jones Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Publishing Date: 1st Edition, 2013 Hardcover: 160 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0299295702 ISBN-13: 978-0299295707 Format: Hardcover Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Through personal journeys both interior and across the globe, Alden Jones investigates what motivates us to travel abroad in search of the unfamiliar.

By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship, Jones chronicles her experience as a young American traveler while pondering her role as an outsider in the cultures she temporarily inhabits. Her wanderlust fuels a strong, high-adventure story and, much in the vein of classic travel literature, Jones's picaresque tale of personal evolution informs her own transitions, rites of passage, and understandings of her place as a citizen of the world. With sharp insight and stylish prose, Jones asks: Is there a right or wrong way to travel? The Blind Masseuse concludes that there is, but that it's not always black and white.

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