The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe
“Hugely entertaining... Perrottet has a wonderful  knack for ferreting out the obscure, the offbeat, and the just plain weird. A  real eye opener.” —Booklist “Lots of people write about sex, and lots of  people write about history, but nobody writes about either quite the way Tony  Perrottet does. His well-informed wit is front and center in his latest—and, for  my money—best book to date. . . . The perfect read for anyone blessed with a  sense of humor and a touch of perverse curiosity.”—Chris Ryan, New York Times-bestselling  author of Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality"This X-rated version of “National Lampoon’s  European Vacation” segues into an amusing — and absorbing — series of quests...   (Perrottet) tears away Europe’s decorous historical facade he pays spirited  homage to the rakes and reprobates who subscribed to Casanova’s motto: “I have  devoted my life to the pursuit of pleasure.” --The New York Times Book Review “Delightful and edifying... Undercover historian  Tony Perrottet presents the Tour with a twist: studying the Continent’s most  famous, or infamous, sites and relics associated with human sexuality, from the  belle epoque brothels of Paris to a secret Vatican bathroom covered with erotic  panels by Raphael.”—Trip Lit,National Geographic  Traveler “A terrifically funny writer . . . informative and  twice as quirky. —Boston Globe