What lies beyond! : travel ventures into curious and other worlds /
Nazareth, Kynsléy,
What lies beyond! : travel ventures into curious and other worlds / Travel ventures into curious and other worlds by Kynsléy Nazareth. - 266 pages ; 22 cm
NZ author based in Northcote, Auckland.
"Brought up in a parallel society within mainstream India, the author goes searching for answers to this peculiar culture which is a misfit in India. While he gains clarity, it ignites his intrigue to go beyond cliché travel and find other parallel and curious worlds around the globe ... Discovering the mystery people of Europe; learning of the privileges of women in the Islamic world; narrating how Christmas is celebrated in a non-Christian country; observing the sun doing the opposite of what it usually does; watching devotees being possessed during a slave religion ceremony in Latin America ... Almost throughout, the author stays with locals ranging from a strip dancer to those who survived authoritarian regimes. He weaves their stories into his one and half year odyssey that explores anomalies while travelling along. Indeed, the many brisk but electrifying chapters keep changing themes making readers constantly wonder, What Lies Beyond ..."--Back cover.
1520694148 9781520694146
Nazareth, Kynsléy--Travel.
Voyages and travels.
Travel writing.
910.4
What lies beyond! : travel ventures into curious and other worlds / Travel ventures into curious and other worlds by Kynsléy Nazareth. - 266 pages ; 22 cm
NZ author based in Northcote, Auckland.
"Brought up in a parallel society within mainstream India, the author goes searching for answers to this peculiar culture which is a misfit in India. While he gains clarity, it ignites his intrigue to go beyond cliché travel and find other parallel and curious worlds around the globe ... Discovering the mystery people of Europe; learning of the privileges of women in the Islamic world; narrating how Christmas is celebrated in a non-Christian country; observing the sun doing the opposite of what it usually does; watching devotees being possessed during a slave religion ceremony in Latin America ... Almost throughout, the author stays with locals ranging from a strip dancer to those who survived authoritarian regimes. He weaves their stories into his one and half year odyssey that explores anomalies while travelling along. Indeed, the many brisk but electrifying chapters keep changing themes making readers constantly wonder, What Lies Beyond ..."--Back cover.
1520694148 9781520694146
Nazareth, Kynsléy--Travel.
Voyages and travels.
Travel writing.
910.4