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Voyeurismo.(Travel)(The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall)(Book review)

Quadrant

| May 01, 2007 | Sandall, Roger | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

You've SPENT 10,000 YEARS getting there. It's not pretty but it's yours--the swamp, the forest, the tree house where you live. Bigger and stronger tribes drove you down from the better land higher up the slopes, so you fell back on a godforsaken place full of reptiles, insects and malarial encephalitis. West Papua's rainforests are hell; but at least you feel safe and alone.

Then Zuruck in die Steinzeit comes along--a party of Germans looking for tourism's outer edge. They have their cameras ready and this is what they've come for (Zuruck in die Steinzeit means "Back to the Stone Age")--stark naked little guys with bows and arrows and weird penis sheaths and ...

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