The Blind Masseuse A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia

Through personal journeys both interior and across the globe, Alden Jones investigates what motivates us to travel abroad in search of the unfamiliar. By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship, Jones chronicles her experien...

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Main Author: Jones, Alden (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Madison The University of Wisconsin Press 2013
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