num_pages: 283
description: A collection of highly personal visits to places and people at crucial times, from 1949 till 2005-from Argentina to Ecuador, Mexico, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, South Korea, and war-time Vietnam: places that, due to time, no longer exist. The author often feels that a story about people makes a place more vivid to the reader than a report on the city's run-down museums. He gives us the flavor of Rio by letting us witness a retired prostitute loosing her pet python to terrify her former colleagues who were holding a strategy meeting on the street. Why should his travels interest you? He takes you to exotic places and people fifty-five years back till the present without causing you effort or danger, at times and places that were wonderful, shameful, dangerous, or perhaps bizarre, and none of which still exist, since nothing is as it was-not even sea level.
language: English
title: Visits to Fascinating Places and People that Time Has Replaced 1949-2005
titlecomplete: Visits to Fascinating Places and People that Time Has Replaced 1949-2005
publisher: PublishAmerica