Travels with the Flea. . . : And Other Eccentric Journeys

by PERRIN JIM

• ISBN13: 9781903238431
• ISBN10: 1903238439
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-30
• Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc

Summary

Hunter S. Thompson meets Byron, by one of travel-writing's consummate literary originals travelling the world with his little dog, Flea.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Foreword by Roger Hubank	xi
Introduction
The Familiar as Strange, The Strange as Familiar	xiii
Travels with a Harley	1	(27)
Riding in America before the fall
Small Worlds	28	(17)
Green Gables, Red Earth
Landing Sheep on Caher Island
A Place Apart
Cityscapes	45	(26)
That's the way it is when you're in Seattle
Pièce de Resistance
Varanasi in Darkness and Light
Propositioned in Portland
Cool in Montreal
Arctic Fractals	71	(16)
Watching narwhal on the Brodeur Peninsula
The Franklin Graves on Beechey Island
Arctic State of Mind
Changing Places	87	(46)
Cuba: Confronting the Negative
Downtown Hungary
The Valleys
In the Hide of the Lion
'While everybody knelt to pray/The drifter did escape'
Bolivian Journey
Meetings with Remarkable Creatures	133	(20)
The Wolf and the Goose
Whale-watching at Tadoussac
Befriending the Raven
Fellow Travellers	153	(27)
Resident Alien
Drinking with Dervla
Nature's Intimate
Comedian on the Tracks
flibbertigibbet prose-writer
Eastings	180	(23)
Gaspé
The Cow's Mouth
Fragments of Paradise
Travels with The Flea	203	(106)
Through Wales on six legs
Postscript	309
'An absence bounding at our side...'