num_pages: 336
description: “ The End of Elsewhere is a kind of post-millennium Heart of Darkness , with Grescoe’s Marlowe on the trail of a hypothetical camera-toting, Hawaiian-shirted Kurtz . . . A powerful indictment of contemporary tourism and, more fundamentally, it’s a cry against the West’s exploitation of the Third world in the era of globalization”— Quill &amp; Quire Witty and provocative, The End of Elsewhere is a riotous on-the-road odyssey and a brilliant history of tourism. It will be treasured by anyone who has been conned by ‘authentic’ travel. Taras Grescoe has written articles on travel for Condé Nast Traveler , National Geographic Traveler and The New York Times . His first book Sacré An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec won numerous awards in Canada. He lives in Montreal.
language: English
title: The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists
titlecomplete: The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists
genres: Nonfiction, Travel, Memoir
ratings_count: 98
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
publisher: Serpent's Tail