Haven't read it, but it's an interesting title.![]()
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4239255
Eric Hansen is not the kind of traveler who visits museums and monuments. He's more inclined to wriggle his way into the local economy as a hotel handyman on a Pacific island or by hatching a plan to smuggle dried fish into Sri Lanka.
Along the way, Hansen takes the time to meet the oddest collection of characters in cities and villages around the world. In a new book of essays called The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers, he details some of his most memorable explorations from a 30-year span of travels



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