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Carregando... Between Terror and Tourism: An Overland Journey Across North Africade Michael Mewshaw
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I confess I didn't finish this book. For the simple fact that it was boring. Which is very surprising considering the countries the author traveled in. There are way, way, way to many references to author's and books that add nothing to the narrative. The author is mildly funny but not in the dry manner of an English author, the often times uproariously funny manner of an Australian writer, the cranky cantankerous way of Paul Theroux, nor does he have the writing talent of A.A. Gill. Also not much happened at least as far as I made it into the book. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
For his 65th birthday, acclaimed novelist Michael Mewshaw took a 4,000-mile overland trip across North Africa. Arriving in Egypt during food riots, he heads west into Libya, where billions in oil money have produced little except citizens eager to flee to Europe or join the jihad in Iraq. In Tunis, Mewshaw visits an abandonedStar Wars movie set where Al Qaeda has just kidnapped two tourists. Ignoring U.S. Embassy warnings he crosses into Algeria, traveling through mountain towns and seething metropolises where 200,000 people have died during more than a decade of sectarian violence. Searching for the tombs of seven monks murdered by Islamic fundamentalists, he reaches a village where six more people have been beheaded the day before. When he interviews a repentant terrorist responsible for 5,000 deaths, the man praises the Boy Scouts for training him. By contrast, the Moroccan city of Tangier seems almost tame. But then he meets the last literary protégé of Paul Bowles who accuses Bowles of plagiarism and murder. In the end, the reader, like the author, is immersed in a fascinating adventure that's sometimes tragic, often funny, occasionally terrifying and always a revelation of a strange place and its people. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)916.104History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Africa Tunisia; Libya; The Maghreb GenerallyClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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