num_pages: 192
description: 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. Gold Winner for Travel Essays Foreword Books of the Year Gold Medal for Travel Essays Independent Publisher Book Awards Winner Bisexual Book Awards Bisexual Biography/Memoir Category Finalist Housatonic Book Awards Longlist of eight PEN/Diamonstein Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Finalist Travel Book or Guide Award North American Travel Journalists Association
language: English
title: The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press