{"product_id":"bad-tourist-9781496222848","title":"Bad Tourist","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of travel-inspired essays takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e to do when traveling.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this collection of essays, Roberts recounts her adventures while traveling mostly solo to 15 countries. Along the way she navigates mishaps both large and small, from a dangerous mudslide in Peru to a tricky romantic entanglement in Greece. Each experience offers a chance to probe her inner 'bad tourist,' as she wrestles with issues of privilege, cultural blind spots, and her own insecurities on a journey to self-discovery.\"—\u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Replete with harrowing and laugh out loud accounts of misadventures at home and abroad, Suzanne Roberts’s \u003ci\u003eBad Tourist\u003c\/i\u003e collects entertaining stories from around the world. . . . Authentic, surprising, and irresistible, \u003ci\u003eBad Tourist\u003c\/i\u003e is a travel text worth getting lost in.\"—\u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Roberts has spent decades circling the globe, chasing experience, understanding, and identity. This book is the culmination of her young adulthood on the move.\"—Courtney Eathorne, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This would be a good pick for anyone that loves travel, misses traveling in these days of quarantine, or would like something different. This is a collection of love stories to old friends, lovers, her mother, new friends from her travels, discovered lands and cultures, and to herself.\"—alissacmiles.com\u003cbr\u003e\"Named Next Great Travel Writer by National Geographic’s \u003ci\u003eTraveler\u003c\/i\u003e, Roberts handily fits the distinction with memories, images, and insights that put readers in the seat beside her or hiking up a too-close-for-comfort volcanic slope—all the while providing a sort of anti-guidebook unapologetically illustrating what not to do.\"—Donna McCrohan Rosenthal, \u003ci\u003eNews Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fast-paced, smart and very enjoyable book.\"—Melissa Oliveira, \u003ci\u003eHippocampus Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I love travel, armchair and otherwise, so I knew it would be a pleasure letting Suzanne Roberts take me around the world on a shoestring, from India’s Grand Elephant Festival, to the steppes of Mongolia on the trail of Genghis Khan, to the cool tiles of another one-star bathroom wondering if this would be the time she’d puke herself to death. Even more satisfying are her honesty, courage, and eventual clarity as she tackles her own understories—family dysfunction and alcoholism, internalized misogyny, and what the climate catastrophe means for the travel addicted among us—combining these essays into a thoroughly relatable journey of the heart.”—Pam Houston, author of \u003ci\u003eDeep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If Michel de Montaigne and Chelsea Handler could get together in a bar in some far-flung part of the world and get good and drunk, they might dream up a book like this. This is not your parents’ travel writing! If you’re thirsting for a literary triple shot of sex, booze, and misadventures, \u003ci\u003eBad Tourist \u003c\/i\u003eis your passport to a trip you won’t want to come home from.”—Michael P. Branch, author of \u003ci\u003eRants from the Hill\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow to Cuss in Western\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBad Tourist\u003c\/i\u003e makes beautiful the absurdity and heartbreak accompanying us whenever we leave home. Roberts’s intimate, fiercely honest narrative voice imbues these realities with grace and demonstrates just how much is to be gained by living a life in the present tense.”—Kathryn Miles, author of \u003ci\u003eQuakeland: On the Road to America’s Next Devastating Earthquake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These thoughtful, hilarious, lusty essays will either have you renewing your passport or blowtorching it for good. Suzanne Roberts may be a bad tourist, but she’s one hell of a great writer.”—Gayle Brandeis, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Misdiagnosis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSIGHTS\u003cbr\u003e The Love Test\u003cbr\u003e Scared Shitless\u003cbr\u003e My Mother Is My Wingman\u003cbr\u003e Three Hours to Burn a Body\u003cbr\u003e SLEEPING\u003cbr\u003e Hotel Cádiz\u003cbr\u003e Loving the Lie\u003cbr\u003e The Call of the Coquí\u003cbr\u003e Fourteen One-Night Stands\u003cbr\u003e EATING AND DRINKING\u003cbr\u003e Gone Missing\u003cbr\u003e One Degree of Separation\u003cbr\u003e The Peruvian Blackout\u003cbr\u003e One Hundred Boyfriends\u003cbr\u003e SPAS AND BEAUTY TREATMENTS\u003cbr\u003e Prague and the Unbearable Lousiness of the Tourist\u003cbr\u003e Stretching the Thigh Fat\u003cbr\u003e Bellagio People\u003cbr\u003e Knowing the Words by Heart\u003cbr\u003e ACTIVITIES\u003cbr\u003e Skiing the Fall Line\u003cbr\u003e The Illuminations\u003cbr\u003e Mating Season\u003cbr\u003e Jungle Love\u003cbr\u003e Bargaining, or the Third Stage of Grief\u003cbr\u003e FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL EVENTS\u003cbr\u003e In Search of Genghis Khan\u003cbr\u003e Odds Are\u003cbr\u003e The Grand Elephant Festival\u003cbr\u003e Coming of Age in the Guna Yala Islands\u003cbr\u003e GETTING THERE AND AWAY\u003cbr\u003e Dangerous for a Woman Alone\u003cbr\u003e A Wee Scottish Tour\u003cbr\u003e Scary Flyer\u003cbr\u003e El Borracho\u003cbr\u003e DANGERS AND ANNOYANCES\u003cbr\u003e The Riffraff in the Magical Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e Middle-Aged Vagabonding\u003cbr\u003e Sassy at Burning Man\u003cbr\u003e Hiking Home\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Source Acknowledgments","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409233092951,"sku":"9781496222848","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496222848.jpg?v=1730506067","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bad-tourist-9781496222848","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}