Praise -- ALSO BY ROLF POTTS -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Introduction -- PART ONE - Adventures and Misadventures -- 1 - Storming The Beach -- ENDNOTES -- 2 - Road Roulette -- ENDNOTES -- 3 - Toura Incognita -- ENDNOTES -- 4 - Be Your Own Donkey -- ENDNOTES -- 5 - Something Approaching Enlightenment -- ENDNOTES -- 6 - Turkish Knockout -- I. -- II. -- ENDNOTES -- PART TWO - I'm a Tourist, You're a Tourist -- 7 - Tantric Sex for Dilettantes -- I. THE GIRL -- II. THE HOLY PLACE -- III. THE SWAMI -- IV. THE ROOFTOP RESTAURANT -- V. THE TANTRA CLASS -- VI. THE GIRL, PART II -- VII. THE HOLY PLACE, PART II -- ENDNOTES -- 8 - The Barbecue Jesus and Other Epiphanies -- ENDNOTES -- 9 - Going Native in the Australian Outback -- I. THE PITJANTJATJARA WORD FOR TOURISTS AND ANTS IS ONE AND THE SAME -- II. IF IT'S TUESDAY, THIS MUST BE ARRERNTE COUNTRY -- III. A VISIT TO THE ARTISTIC HILLBILLIES OF UTOPIA -- IV. COWBOYS, INDIANS, AND NOBLE SAVAGES -- V. IF ZEUS AND MOSES LIVED IN YOUR BACKYARD -- ENDNOTES -- 10 - Backpacker's Ball at the Sultan Hotel -- ENDNOTES -- 11 - Death of an Adventure Traveler -- ENDNOTES -- PART THREE - The Dubious Thrill of Press Trips -- 12 - Cycladian Rhythm -- ENDNOTES -- 13 - Seven (or So) Sins on the Isle of Spice -- ENDNOTES -- 14 - Virgin Trail -- I. THE MORE LOOKERS, THE LESS THERE IS TO SEE? -- II. CARLOS DON'T SURF -- III. BUREAUCRACY, REST, AND MOTION -- IV. THEY EAT MERMAIDS, DON'T THEY? -- V. VIRGIN TERRITORY -- ENDNOTES -- PART FOUR - People You Don't Forget -- 15 - My Beirut Hostage Crisis -- ENDNOTES -- 16 - Up Cambodia without a Phrasebook -- ENDNOTES -- 17 - Islam's Bloody Celebration -- ENDNOTES -- 18 - Digging Mr. Benny's Dead Uncle -- ENDNOTES -- 19 - The Living Museum of Everywhere and Nowhere -- ENDNOTES -- PART FIVE - Tutorial -- 20 - The Art of Writing a Story about Walking across Andorra.

I. MANY TRAVEL STORIES BEGIN AS AN ATTEMPT TO IMPRESS PRETTY WOMEN -- II. HISTORICAL DETAILS MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT -- III. EDITORS ARE IMPRESSED BY TIDY NARRATIVE FORMULAS -- IV. WHEN BOGGED DOWN IN DESCRIPTION, TROT OUT SOME COLORFUL CHARACTERS -- V. BE SURE TO CONTRAST THE PURITY OF THE PAST WITH THE SUPERFICIALITIES OF TODAY -- VI. DON'T FORGET TO TALK TO A LOCAL -- VII. PUBLIC FESTIVALS ARE THE HOLY GRAIL OF ANY TRAVEL STORY -- VIII. END WITH A TIDY GENERALIZATION, OR PERHAPS A KNOWING WINK -- Acknowledgements -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- Copyright Page.