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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Books to Read- Lost Cosmonaut by Daniel Kalder
I'm posting this because it's on my list of books to buy.
My favorite form of traveling is anti-tourism.
I did some traveling like this in the Dominican Republic though I found it difficult because I had a lack of money and I didn't speak spanish. (so I had to resort to speaking German or French and looking away when little kids were begging for money). Wisconsin Public Radio recently featured Kalder on To The Best of Our Knowledge.
Lost Cosmonaut by Daniel Kalder
Lost Cosmonaut documents Daniel Kalder's travels in the bizarre and mysterious worlds of Russia's ethnic republics. Obsessed with a quest he never fully understands, Kalder boldly goes where no man has gone before: in the deserts of Kalmykia, he stumbles upon a city dedicated to chess and a forgotten tribe of Mongols; in Mari El, home to Europe's last pagan nation, he meets the Chief Druid and participates in an ancient rite; while in the black industrial badlands of Udmurtia, Kalder looks for Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK47, and accidentally becomes a TV star.
Profane yet wise, utterly honest and yet full of lies, Lost Cosmonaut is an eye-opening, blackly comic tour of the most alien planet in our cosmos: Earth.
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