Laurie McAndish King’s adventures may have seemed like a good idea at the time: Tracking lions on foot, without a gun, in Botswana. Taste-testing the world’s most expensive coffee—which happens to be made from the excrement of a small Balinese mammal. Marrying a Maasai warrior in Kenya, searching the Irish countryside for an erotic goddess, and attempting to eat a horse in southern Italy.Whether she is lost in Melbourne, kidnapped in Tunisia, or eaten alive in Queensland, King’s travel adventures tend toward the quirky. And her retelling is poignant, thoughtful, occasionally unsettling, often funny, and always appealing.

Lost Kidnapped Eaten Alive!: True Stories from a Curious Traveler

Literature & Fiction

King, Laurie McAndish

History & Criticism

Destination Insights

Thirty stories and poems by the award-winning Wanderland Writers. Workshop leaders Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Joanna Biggar led a search for the soul of southern Spain. Along the way the writers discovered a country ripe with contradiction: an arid landscape filled with lush gardens; the practice of elaborate Christian rituals in churches echoing a rich Islamic past; a land of bullfighters, gypsies, poets, philosophers and scholars; a place where duende and alegria coexist. As they spread out in this inviting territory, they encountered—and wrote about—Columbus and the Christian monarchs; tapas and toreadors; sherry and sangria; caliphs and communists; flamenco and, yes, flamingos.

Wandering in Andalusia: The Soul of Southern Spain (Wanderland Writers presents)

Travel

McFerrin, Linda Watanabe

Biggar, Joanna

Sigmon, Anne

Pramik, MJ

Gardner, Rita

Maskaleris, Thanasis

Europe

Wanderland Writers

Whether your taste runs to crocodiles, ancient relics or flying saucers, you’re sure to find entertainment and illumination in this collection of 21 true travel stories. Join in the author’s adventures as she: Makes a pilgrimage to see a 2,500-year-old tooth • Considers the fate of a three-legged elephant • Learns the chilling secrets of the Jamaica Inn pirates • Participates in a shamanic ayahuasca ritual • Talks alien spaceship propulsion with a SETI scientist • And more …

Your Crocodile has Arrived: More true stories from a curious traveler

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

The Curious Traveler series continues with 21 brand-new stories: Walk on a man-eating lake - Enjoy a psychic massage - Hunt down an ancient three-eyed cannibal - Make your own Japanese pizza - Learn the story of a shrunken head - Consider the surprising history of white powder in the jungle - Stand at the portal to the Uncanny Valley - And more ...

An Elephant Ate My Arm: More true stories from a curious traveler

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