Dreamers Runaways and Mysteries: A Traveler's Tales and Essays

Dreamers Runaways and Mysteries takes readers to many places around the world some enfolded in mystery. The tales tell of characters drawn to these places sometimes for escape from the lives they had led and of incidents that memorably mark their travels. In India an intrepid lady adventurer charms an unhappy American; in Buenos Aires a lonely tourist gets enraptured by a torrid story of tango dancers; in Botswana a safari takes a surprising twist under an astonishing guide; in Singapore fantasies of Somerset Maugham bewitch a yearning visitor; in Rio de Janiero a buoyant lady of the night beguiles a disaffected businessman; in Saigon a nostalgic journalist hears surprising secrets from a gentle Laotian. And many more.The essays share the tales spirit of travel and sense of place as they plumb historical mysteries of Sagres Portugal where the great age of exploration began; Shanghai China where past and present compete; Khajuraho India where erotic temple art flowered; and Marrakech Morocco where storytellers thrive in the marketplace.In all Dreamers Runaways and Mysteries celebrates the life-giving experience of travel and the unexpected turns this experience can take when we let it.