Climb onto the backseat of the Chrysler Neon and join Sean Condon, author of Drive Thru America , on the road trip Kerouac always feared he'd take.
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Stephen
Benz leaves more than footprints as he cruises the jungles of
Central America and discovers ecotourism isn't all it's cracked
up to be.
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Isabella Tree watches Papua New Guinean highlanders shaking a tail feather and finds yet another good reason to stick a biro through her nose.
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Annie Caulfield
paints a revealing portrait of contemporary Jordan - sheep's eyes,
baking sand and busy-bodying biddies wondering what's under her
skirt.
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How
to
decode
Japan
by
watching
ball
bearings
in
a
neon
lightbox,
going
bonkers
over
bonkei
and
leaving
the
right
amount
of
tea
in
your
cup.
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Katherine Kizilos wraps
herself in the twin myths of ancient Greece and family history, searching
for the truth behind the tourist-traps in the land of her ancestors.
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Jan Brokken is haunted
by the ghosts of his predecessors: explorers, missionaries, slavers and
adventurers who played out their dreams and delusions in Gabon.
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It's big, it's red,
it's overhyped: it's Sean Condon. Only one man could compare Australia's
igneous wonder to a scrambled egg and get away with it.
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With a pocketful of
cash and a hankering for the spiritual, Jeff Greenwald browses the boutiques
and takes on the holy hagglers of Nepal.
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Sekai Nzenza-Shand
goes home to Zimbabwe and finds a country torn between respect for
the old ways and the irresistible pull of the new.
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