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Overview
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.
Synopsis
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.
KLIATT
If Dave Barry decided to take up traveling as an occupation and write about it in his spare moments on the train, he might end up sounding a bit like Craig Nelson. Few books elicit an out-loud laugh on the very first page. Let's Get Lost is one of the few that do. Craig Nelson has traveled just about everywhere, everywhere there is a chance that he won't be near a McDonald's or a Princess Cruise ship. He is totally blunt in his observations on everything from beggars in India to cannibals in New Guinea. "Now I don't know about you, but I'm fascinated by cannibals, because they've got a thought process I just can't assimilate. Think you see someone really good looking and your mind (or whatever) reacts: What a beauty. Would your next thought be: Sauce bernaise?" Nelson's irreverence may not be for everyone and it is best in small doses—a book to chuckle over during a break, but it does show his basic fascination with the world around us. It also offers the proverbial armchair travel experience. KLIATT Codes: SA—Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 1999, Warner, 359p, 22cm, 98-49256, $14.95. Ages 16 to adult. Reviewer: Katherine E. Gillen; Libn., Luke AFB Lib., AZ, November 2000 (Vol. 34 No. 6)