Full name: The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers

Author: Eric Hansen Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Memoirs, Essays, Adventure, Humor Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780679771821 0679771824

Eric Hansen survives a cyclone on a boat off the Australian coast, cradles a dying man in Calcutta, and drinks mind-altering kava in Vanuatu. He helps a widower search for his wife's wedding ring amid plane-crash wreckage in Borneo and accompanies topless dancers on a bird-watching expedition in California. From the Maldives to Sacramento, from Cannes to Washington Heights, Eric Hansen has a way of getting himself into the most sacred ceremonies and the most candid conversations. Similar books: Fresh-Air Fiend by Paul Theroux Pleasures and Landscapes by Sybille Bedford Along the Edge of America by Peter Jenkins The Rough Guide to First-Time Around the World by Doug Lansky AA Gill is Away by A. A. Gill The Global Soul by Pico Iyer Bad Trips by Keath Fraser Vagabonding by Rolf Potts Sunrise With Seamonsters by Paul Theroux Equator by Thurston Clarke Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Palin Roads by Larry McMurtry Thrilling Cities by Ian Fleming Full Circle by Michael Palin Pole To Pole by Michael Palin Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures by Jennifer L. Leo An Idiot Abroad by Karl Pilkington Three Ways to Capsize a Boat by Chris Stewart Travels with My Donkey by Tim Moore A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg by Tim Cahill