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Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries Tim Anderson Everyone wants to escape their boring, stagnant lives full of inertia and regret. But so few people actually have the bravery to run -- run away from everything and selflessly seek out personal fulfillment on the other side of the world where they don't understand anything and won't be expected to. The world is full of cowards. Tim Anderson was pushing thirty and working a string of dead-end jobs when he made the spontaneous decision to pack his bags and move to Japan, “where my status as a U.S. passport holder and card-carrying ‘American English’ speaker was an asset rather than a liability.” It was a gutsy move, especially for a tall, white, gay Southerner who didn’t speak a lick of Japanese. But his life desperately needed a shot of adrenaline, and what better way to get one than to leave behind everything he had ever known to move to “a tiny, overcrowded island heaving with clever, sensibly proportioned people that make him look fat?” In Tokyo, Tim became a “gaijin,” an outsider whose stumbling progression through Japanese culture is minutely chronicled in these sixteen howlingly funny stories. Yet despite the steep learning curve and the seemingly constant humiliation, the gaijin from North Carolina gradually begins to find his way. Whether playing drums on the fly in an otherwise all-Japanese noise band or attempting to keep his English classroom clean when it’s invaded by an older female student with a dirty mind, Tim comes to realize that living a meaningful life is about expecting the unexpected…right when he least expects it. |
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The Stapleton 2012 Gay Guide to Walt Disney World - Orlando Jon Stapleton The Stapleton Guide is a travel guide to Orlando, Walt Disney World and all the other attractions in Central Florida: SeaWorld, Legoland, Universal, etc., focusing on the interests of gays and lesbians. Lodgings, restaurants, attractions, shopping and nightlife, updated several times a year in ebook form. Though focused on the gay world, the Guide is quite comprehensive, covering all other aspects of Orlando of interest to anyone. |
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The Stapleton 2012 Gay Guide to Key West & The Florida Keys Jon Stapleton Complete Gay Guide to Key West and the Florida Keys (Upper Keys, Middle Keys, Lower Keys), including lodgings, restaurants, attractions, outdoor sports, snorkeling, water tours and excursions, shopping and everything else you'd want to do in the Keys - edited with an emphasis on gay travel. |
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The Stapleton 2012 Gay Guide to Las Vegas Jon Stapleton The Stapleton Guide is a comprehensive travel guide to Las Vegas, focusing on the interests of gays and lesbians. Lodgings, restaurants, attractions, casinos, shopping and nightlife, updated annually in print form and several times a year in ebook form. Though focused on the gay world, the Guide is quite comprehensive, covering all other aspects of Las Vegas of interest to the general traveler as well, thus providing the gay visitor with a complete picture of the area. All Stapleton guides are meant to be INclusive rather than EXclusive. |
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Damron Men's Travel Guide: 2012 Edition Gina M. Gatta This 48th edition features 13,000+ listings covering North America, South America, Europe & SE Asia. European cities now include Paris, London, Dublin, Berlin, Amsterdam, Vienna, Rome, Prague, and Barcelona, Madrid, and Sitges, Spain. In South America: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Santiago, Chile. In SE Asia: Bangkok and Tokyo, and Sydney, Australia. Quick facts on everything the gay traveler on the go needs. Over 13,000 listings of gay-friendly hotels, B&Bs, bars, nightclubs, bookstores, cafes, restaurants, gyms, men's clubs. saunas & much more. Every single listing verified annually, many within weeks of publication! The International Calendar of Events features Circuit Parties, Gay Pride Celebrations, Gay Film Festivals, Leather, Fetish & Bear Events. The Tour and Travel Sections details gay Cruises, Tours & Vacations, including Cruises & Luxury Tours, Outdoor Adventures, Retreats & Conferences |
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Spartacus International Gay Guide 2011-2012 (Spartacus Travel Guide) The editorial team of the Spartacus Internationally Gay Guide works incessantly to present you with an up-to-date, comprehensive and worldwide overview of all the relevant addresses for the gay tourist. Naturally we do all this in order to present a product which earns the predicate "excellent". This effort on our behalf has not gone unnoticed: the IGLTA - that internationally Gay and Lesbian Travel Association - : In connection with our 40th anniversary, the Spartacus International Gay Guide was awarded the Hanns Ebensten Hall of Fame Award. A recognition that we have helped gay men for four decades who have explored the world with help from our guide. |
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City Alexandra David-Neel An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David–Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city. In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, disguised herself as a beggar with yak hair extensions and inked skin and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the World. With the help of her young companion, Yongden, she willingly suffered the primitive travel conditions, frequent outbreaks of disease, the ever–present danger of border control and the military to reach her goal. The determination and sheer physical fortitude it took for this woman, delicately reared in Paris and Brussels, is inspiration for men and women alike. David–Neel is famous for being the first Western woman to have been received by any Dalai Lama and as a passionate scholar and explorer of Asia, hers is one of the most remarkable of all travellersߴales. |
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Women in the Material World Faith D'Aluisio, Peter Menzel A companion to the groundbreaking bestseller Material World: A Global Family Portrait, this remarkable volume portrays the striking similarities and profound differences in the lives of women around the world at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Under the direction of Faith D’Aluisio and Peter Menzel, a team of renowned women journalists traveled the world to take a close look at the lives of women in twenty disparate lands. In first-person interviews of startling candor, the women share their feelings about family, children, money, love, sex, and marriage. These interviews, together with 375 stunning full-color photographs, create a powerful multicultural portrait of the half of humanity that all too often remains invisible. |
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Delaplaine's Guide to South Beach 2011 Andrew Delaplaine Travel writer, novelist and screenwriter Andrew Delaplaine is based on South Beach, so he knows the area quite well. Miami is a great place from which to travel around the world. But it's also a wonderful place to call home. The best hotels; his most preferred restaurants; bargain finds; sensible alternatives to the usual tourist traps. A true "insider's guide." |
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States of Desire: Travels In Gay America Edmund White In this city-by-city description of the way homosexual men lived in the late seventies, Edmund White gives us a picture of Gay America that will surprise gay and straight readers alike. With great wit and humor, the co-author of The Joy of Gay Sex tells what goes on behind the glittering surface of fashionable nightspots and glamorous resorts. But he also shows us gay engineers, gay computer experts, and gay cowboys; this is a look at a vast world never before documented. By introducing us to a wide variety of gay people, White gives us remarkable new insights into what it means to be gay in America. In States of Desire, you will meet a gay timber baron from Portland and a "big-wig" (literally as well as figuratively) in the Florida drag world. Here are: handsome lifeguards in Chicago—those "bronzed demigods . . . who lord it above us on their white wood towers"; a Hollywood host who has just spent "a typical L.A. day, driving 150 miles assembling the twelve ingredients for supper"; a San Franciscan who embraces his friends "with long, therapeutic hugs, silently searching their faces for the weather report of their subtlest, innermost feelings"; and Boston gay radicals, who defend some of the most controversial positions that concern society today. You will hear the stories of gay Cubans in Miami, a gay lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and even a self-appointed gay Mormon prophet in Salt Lake City—all narrated with a novelist's fine ear for nuance. Into this vivid tapestry of people and places the author weaves the pros and cons of such issues as gay radicalism, the "urban gay renaissance" and the much discussed gay penchant for hedonism and sexual extremism. Above all, White shows the remarkable possibilities for gay life today—from the black gay ghettos of Atlanta to communes in New England; from "friendship networks" in New York City to New Orleans-style "uptown marriages" (in which men live with wife and children uptown and keep a boy in the Quarter); from Kansas City, where the self-oppression of 1950s gay life still reigns supreme, to Fire Island's unrivaled "spectacle of gay affluence and gay-male beauty." For this eye-opening book makes clear that gay life is every bit as rich and varied as the many gay lives the author so effectively describes. |