| Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics Contributor(s): Frater, Alexander (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307388263 ISBN-13: 9780307388261 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2008 Annotation: A vibrant, witty, and captivating account of a lifetime's worth of travel in the tropics, from one of the most celebrated travel writers working today. Tales from the Torrid Zone is a diverting, loose-limbed tour of the Earth's hot zones ("The2New York Times"). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Travel | Special Interest - Adventure |
| Dewey: 910.913 |
| LCCN: 2008272023 |
| Series: Vintage Departures |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.32" W x 7.94" (0.64 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alexander Frater was born to a family of Scottish expatriates on the tiny island of Irikiki in the South Seas. Following his dreams of being a writer, Frater left home, but the call of the tropics compelled him to return again and again. Join him as he dines with the Queen of Tonga; makes his way through two civil wars; visits the spots where surfing and bungee jumping originated; and expresses his love for the region where he is at once a tourist, explorer, adventurer, and native son. From Tahiti to Thailand, Mexico to Mozambique, Frater gives us a richly described, endlessly surprising picture of this diverse, feverish, languorously beautiful world. |