Let's Get Lost Adventures in the Great Wide Open

by Nelson, Craig

• ISBN13: 9780446676038
• ISBN10: 0446676039
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Summary

Craig Nelson has experienced places most people only dream about. He has walked the Great Wall of China; taught New Guinea cannibals how to dance; communed with a sign-language-speaking orangutan in Borneo; gotten into an altercation with the People's Liberation Army in Tiananmen Square; and taken psychoactive pharmaceuticals with a male witch in the depths of the Amazon jungle. In this vastly entertaining, often hilarious, and sometimes poignant book, he shares his global jaunts and haunts with armchair travelers everywhere.

Author Biography

Craig Nelson, when he isn't trekking around the world, can be found in the jungle of New York City, where he is one of publishing's most recognized--and vaccinated--figures. The editor and writer of numerous bestsellers, he has spent time in locales ranging from the Amazon to the Yucatan Peninsula and plans on making Zanzibar his next trip (if only to round out the alphabet).

Table of Contents

Why on Earth Would You Want to Go There?	xi
China
Red Menace	3	(42)
South America
Into the Amazon with P.J. O'Rourke and a Headhunting Shaman (Retired)	45	(30)
Egypt
When the Black Land Was the First World	75	(28)
Indonesia
Into the Liver of Borneo	103	(24)
Teaching the Cannibals to Dance	127	(32)
India
Unearthly Delights	159	(46)
Africa
Cow Cults of the Sub-Sahara	205	(25)
When We Were Prey	230	(18)
The Last of the Bushmen	248	(10)
A Gorilla Named ``Bob''	258	(37)
The South Pacific
Putting Your Father on a Slow Boat to Tonga	295	(54)
Sources	349