{"product_id":"b004p8jfli","title":"The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall","description":"\u003cp\u003eVivid, entertaining and often unorthodox . . . An inspired experiment in meta-travel from the author of  The Forgiven , now a major motion picture (Pico Iyer,  Los Angeles Times ).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east—and of the tour itself . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself. He took a six-month journey across the so-called Asian Highway—a swathe of Southeast Asia that, since the Victorian era, has seduced generations of tourists with its manufactured dreams of the exotic Orient. And like many a lost soul on this same route, he ended up in the harrowing forests of Papua, searching for a people who have never seen a tourist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat, Osborne asks, are millions of affluent itinerants looking for in these endless resorts, hotels, cosmetic-surgery packages, spas, spiritual retreats, sex clubs, and back to nature trips? What does tourism, the world's single largest business, have to sell? A travelogue into that heart of darkness known as the Western mind,  The Naked Tourist  is the most mordant and ambitious work to date from the author of  The Accidental Connoisseur , praised by  The New York Times Book Review  as smart, generous, perceptive, funny, sensible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA biting, highly amusing . . . inquiry into travel and its discontents. —William Grimes,  The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs compelling as the narrative are Osborne's literate ruminations on travel and the writings of anthropologists. This Bruce Chatwin readalike is highly recommended for armchair travelers. — Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67924918960373,"sku":"YSL54580","price":7.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/71PJxm2uo_L._SY1500.jpg?v=1793673906","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b004p8jfli","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}