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A collection of dark and unexpected travel tales from Brendan Shanahan, which will delight and amuse readers. After a decade spent on the road, renowned travel writer Brendan Shanahan is back with Mr Snack and the Lady Water, a collection of darkly funny and unexpected travel writing. In the title piece, Shanahan embarks on what is supposed to be a luxury cruise, only to find himself on a three-day endurance test aboard a leaking barge on China's Yangtze River in the company of a mysterious roommate, a pair of neurotic American spinsters and a thousand baseball-capped tourists. Other stories include his sight-unseen, online purchase of a house in Las Vegas, his brief career in Bollywood and a meditation on white guilt in post-apartheid South Africa. Road-soiled and a touch deviant, Shanahan's account of his 'lost years' are a comic master class, essential reading for anyone who has ever woken up in a strange bed or just stared at themselves in a hotel mirror at 3 am and asked 'Where am I?'Product Identifiers
PublisherMelbourne University Press
ISBN-139780522862232
eBay Product ID (ePID)141379534
Product Key Features
Book TitleMr Snack and the Lady Water: Travel Tales from My Lost Years
AuthorBrendan Shanahan
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicTravel Writing
Publication Year2013
Dimensions
Item Height199mm
Item Width134mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorBrendan Shanahan
Country/Region of ManufactureAustralia