Tales of an Inadvertent Traveler

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Beschreibung:

Some people travel for cuisine, scenery or to broaden their horizons, but Kevin McAleer has journeyed the world for reasons less voluntary – and the results have been much less pleasant. With self-deprecating wit and a lively eye for the grotesque, in Tales of an Inadvertent Traveler he recounts getting stuck behind the Iron Curtain in communist Romania; battling the souvenir-industrial complex on a trip up the Nile Valley; being targeted as a drug runner by the feds during a train trip across America; getting von-Trapped in a Sound of Music-obsessed language course in Salzburg; and voyaging across the stormy North Atlantic on a cargo ship, the sole passenger, only to open his cabin door one night and find the captain’s lifeless body lying at his feet . . . These and other ill-fated junkets are chronicled in McAleer’s eccentric memoir, which turns mishap into comic adventure while also proving that the best travel stories aren’t always told by people who love to travel. 

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Über die Urheberinnen:

Kevin McAleer was born in Santa Monica, California, received his doctorate in history from UC San Diego, and presently lives as a writer and translator in Berlin. His stories have appeared in German and American periodicals. Notable among his books are the novels SURFERBOY, BERLIN TANGO, POSTDOC und L.
A. KID as well as the epic poem ERROL FLYNN: An Epic Life, which eminent film critic Rex Reed praised as “a daring adventure in biographical refurbishment,” and the historical monograph DUELING: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siècle Germany, which was chosen by the Encyclopaedia Britannica as one of its “Books of the Year.”

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Produktdetails:

• Autor:in: Kevin Mcaleer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.09.2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• Seitenumfang: 236 Seiten
• ISBN: 9783962582616