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Author: Suzanne Roberts
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9781496222848
ISBN 10: 1496222849
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 01 October 2020
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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In this collection of essays, Roberts recounts her adventures while traveling mostly solo to 15 countries. Along the way she navigates mishaps both large and small, from a dangerous mudslide in Peru to a tricky romantic entanglement in Greece. Each experience offers a chance to probe her inner 'bad tourist,' as she wrestles with issues of privilege, cultural blind spots, and her own insecurities on a journey to self-discovery. -National Geographic Replete with harrowing and laugh out loud accounts of misadventures at home and abroad, Suzanne Roberts's Bad Tourist collects entertaining stories from around the world. . . . Authentic, surprising, and irresistible, Bad Tourist is a travel text worth getting lost in. -Foreword Reviews Roberts has spent decades circling the globe, chasing experience, understanding, and identity. This book is the culmination of her young adulthood on the move. -Courtney Eathorne, Booklist This would be a good pick for anyone that loves travel, misses traveling in these days of quarantine, or would like something different. This is a collection of love stories to old friends, lovers, her mother, new friends from her travels, discovered lands and cultures, and to herself. -alissacmiles.com Named Next Great Travel Writer by National Geographic's Traveler, Roberts handily fits the distinction with memories, images, and insights that put readers in the seat beside her or hiking up a too-close-for-comfort volcanic slope-all the while providing a sort of anti-guidebook unapologetically illustrating what not to do. -Donna McCrohan Rosenthal, News Review A fast-paced, smart and very enjoyable book. -Melissa Oliveira, Hippocampus Magazine I love travel, armchair and otherwise, so I knew it would be a pleasure letting Suzanne Roberts take me around the world on a shoestring, from India's Grand Elephant Festival, to the steppes of Mongolia on the trail of Genghis Khan, to the cool tiles of another one-star bathroom wondering if this would be the time she'd puke herself to death. Even more satisfying are her honesty, courage, and eventual clarity as she tackles her own understories-family dysfunction and alcoholism, internalized misogyny, and what the climate catastrophe means for the travel addicted among us-combining these essays into a thoroughly relatable journey of the heart. -Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country If Michel de Montaigne and Chelsea Handler could get together in a bar in some far-flung part of the world and get good and drunk, they might dream up a book like this. This is not your parents' travel writing! If you're thirsting for a literary triple shot of sex, booze, and misadventures, Bad Tourist is your passport to a trip you won't want to come home from. -Michael P. Branch, author of Rants from the Hill and How to Cuss in Western Bad Tourist makes beautiful the absurdity and heartbreak accompanying us whenever we leave home. Roberts's intimate, fiercely honest narrative voice imbues these realities with grace and demonstrates just how much is to be gained by living a life in the present tense. -Kathryn Miles, author of Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake These thoughtful, hilarious, lusty essays will either have you renewing your passport or blowtorching it for good. Suzanne Roberts may be a bad tourist, but she's one hell of a great writer. -Gayle Brandeis, author of The Art of Misdiagnosis Suzanne Roberts's journey-both inward and outward-is illuminated by eloquent portraits of countries, cultures, and compassionate insights into human nature. I love this book. -Ann Marie Brown, travel writer and guidebook author In an age where cultures, people, and places are so easily objectified, reduced to abstractions, commodities, or statistics, Bad Tourist is a collection that returns us, thankfully, to earth. Across India and Mongolia to Mexico and California, Suzanne Roberts shares the view at ground level, the brutality and grace and sometimes transcendence in the lives of everyday people. She reminds us that travel can be an act of remembrance. This is an important and moving work. -David Miller, travel writer and documentary filmmaker
I love travel, armchair and otherwise, so I knew it would be a pleasure letting Suzanne Roberts take me around the world on a shoestring, from India's Grand Elephant Festival, to the steppes of Mongolia on the trail of Genghis Khan, to the cool tiles of another one-star bathroom wondering if this would be the time she'd puke herself to death. Even more satisfying are her honesty, courage, and eventual clarity as she tackles her own understories-family dysfunction and alcoholism, internalized misogyny, and what the climate catastrophe means for the travel addicted among us-combining these essays into a thoroughly relatable journey of the heart. -Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country -- Pam Houston If Michel de Montaigne and Chelsea Handler could get together in a bar in some far-flung part of the world and get good and drunk, they might dream up a book like this. This is not your parents' travel writing! If you're thirsting for a literary triple shot of sex, booze, and misadventures, Bad Tourist is your passport to a trip you won't want to come home from. -Michael P. Branch, author of Rants from the Hill and How to Cuss in Western -- Michael P. Branch Bad Tourist makes beautiful the absurdity and heartbreak accompanying us whenever we leave home. Roberts's intimate, fiercely honest narrative voice imbues these realities with grace and demonstrates just how much is to be gained by living a life in the present tense. -Kathryn Miles, author of Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake -- Kathryn Miles These thoughtful, hilarious, lusty essays will either have you renewing your passport or blowtorching it for good. Suzanne Roberts may be a bad tourist, but she's one hell of a great writer. -Gayle Brandeis, author of The Art of Misdiagnosis -- Gayle Brandeis Suzanne Roberts's journey-both inward and outward-is illuminated by eloquent portraits of countries, cultures, and compassionate insights into human nature. I love this book. -Ann Marie Brown, travel writer and guidebook author -- Ann Marie Brown In an age where cultures, people, and places are so easily objectified, reduced to abstractions, commodities, or statistics, Bad Tourist is a collection that returns us, thankfully, to earth. Across India and Mongolia to Mexico and California, Suzanne Roberts shares the view at ground level, the brutality and grace and sometimes transcendence in the lives of everyday people. She reminds us that travel can be an act of remembrance. This is an important and moving work. -David Miller, travel writer and documentary filmmaker -- David Miller
In an age where cultures, people, and places are so easily objectified, reduced to abstractions, commodities, or statistics, Bad Tourist is a collection that returns us, thankfully, to earth. Across India and Mongolia to Mexico and California, Suzanne Roberts shares the view at ground level, the brutality and grace and sometimes transcendence in the lives of everyday people. She reminds us that travel can be an act of remembrance. This is an important and moving work. -David Miller, travel writer and documentary filmmaker -- David Miller Suzanne Roberts's journey-both inward and outward-is illuminated by eloquent portraits of countries, cultures, and compassionate insights into human nature. I love this book. -Ann Marie Brown, travel writer and guidebook author -- Ann Marie Brown These thoughtful, hilarious, lusty essays will either have you renewing your passport or blowtorching it for good. Suzanne Roberts may be a bad tourist, but she's one hell of a great writer. -Gayle Brandeis, author of The Art of Misdiagnosis -- Gayle Brandeis Bad Tourist makes beautiful the absurdity and heartbreak accompanying us whenever we leave home. Roberts's intimate, fiercely honest narrative voice imbues these realities with grace and demonstrates just how much is to be gained by living a life in the present tense. -Kathryn Miles, author of Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake -- Kathryn Miles If Michel de Montaigne and Chelsea Handler could get together in a bar in some far-flung part of the world and get good and drunk, they might dream up a book like this. This is not your parents' travel writing! If you're thirsting for a literary triple shot of sex, booze, and misadventures, Bad Tourist is your passport to a trip you won't want to come home from. -Michael P. Branch, author of Rants from the Hill and How to Cuss in Western -- Michael P. Branch I love travel, armchair and otherwise, so I knew it would be a pleasure letting Suzanne Roberts take me around the world on a shoestring, from India's Grand Elephant Festival, to the steppes of Mongolia on the trail of Genghis Khan, to the cool tiles of another one-star bathroom wondering if this would be the time she'd puke herself to death. Even more satisfying are her honesty, courage, and eventual clarity as she tackles her own understories-family dysfunction and alcoholism, internalized misogyny, and what the climate catastrophe means for the travel addicted among us-combining these essays into a thoroughly relatable journey of the heart. -Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country -- Pam Houston
"""In this collection of essays, Roberts recounts her adventures while traveling mostly solo to 15 countries. Along the way she navigates mishaps both large and small, from a dangerous mudslide in Peru to a tricky romantic entanglement in Greece. Each experience offers a chance to probe her inner 'bad tourist,' as she wrestles with issues of privilege, cultural blind spots, and her own insecurities on a journey to self-discovery.""—National Geographic ""Replete with harrowing and laugh out loud accounts of misadventures at home and abroad, Suzanne Roberts’s Bad Tourist collects entertaining stories from around the world. . . . Authentic, surprising, and irresistible, Bad Tourist is a travel text worth getting lost in.""—Foreword Reviews ""Roberts has spent decades circling the globe, chasing experience, understanding, and identity. This book is the culmination of her young adulthood on the move.""—Courtney Eathorne, Booklist ""This would be a good pick for anyone that loves travel, misses traveling in these days of quarantine, or would like something different. This is a collection of love stories to old friends, lovers, her mother, new friends from her travels, discovered lands and cultures, and to herself.""—alissacmiles.com ""Named Next Great Travel Writer by National Geographic’s Traveler, Roberts handily fits the distinction with memories, images, and insights that put readers in the seat beside her or hiking up a too-close-for-comfort volcanic slope—all the while providing a sort of anti-guidebook unapologetically illustrating what not to do.""—Donna McCrohan Rosenthal, News Review ""A fast-paced, smart and very enjoyable book.""—Melissa Oliveira, Hippocampus Magazine “I love travel, armchair and otherwise, so I knew it would be a pleasure letting Suzanne Roberts take me around the world on a shoestring, from India’s Grand Elephant Festival, to the steppes of Mongolia on the trail of Genghis Khan, to the cool tiles of another one-star bathroom wondering if this would be the time she’d puke herself to death. Even more satisfying are her honesty, courage, and eventual clarity as she tackles her own understories—family dysfunction and alcoholism, internalized misogyny, and what the climate catastrophe means for the travel addicted among us—combining these essays into a thoroughly relatable journey of the heart.”—Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country “If Michel de Montaigne and Chelsea Handler could get together in a bar in some far-flung part of the world and get good and drunk, they might dream up a book like this. This is not your parents’ travel writing! If you’re thirsting for a literary triple shot of sex, booze, and misadventures, Bad Tourist is your passport to a trip you won’t want to come home from.”—Michael P. Branch, author of Rants from the Hill and How to Cuss in Western “Bad Tourist makes beautiful the absurdity and heartbreak accompanying us whenever we leave home. Roberts’s intimate, fiercely honest narrative voice imbues these realities with grace and demonstrates just how much is to be gained by living a life in the present tense.”—Kathryn Miles, author of Quakeland: On the Road to America’s Next Devastating Earthquake “These thoughtful, hilarious, lusty essays will either have you renewing your passport or blowtorching it for good. Suzanne Roberts may be a bad tourist, but she’s one hell of a great writer.”—Gayle Brandeis, author of The Art of Misdiagnosis “Suzanne Roberts’s journey—both inward and outward—is illuminated by eloquent portraits of countries, cultures, and compassionate insights into human nature. I love this book.”—Ann Marie Brown, travel writer and guidebook author “In an age where cultures, people, and places are so easily objectified, reduced to abstractions, commodities, or statistics, Bad Tourist is a collection that returns us, thankfully, to earth. Across India and Mongolia to Mexico and California, Suzanne Roberts shares the view at ground level, the brutality and grace and sometimes transcendence in the lives of everyday people. She reminds us that travel can be an act of remembrance. This is an important and moving work.”—David Miller, travel writer and documentary filmmaker"
Author Information
Suzanne Roberts is the author of Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Nebraska, 2012) and four collections of poetry. She was named the Next Great Travel Writer by National Geographic’s Traveler, and her work has been published in Best Women’s Travel Writing and listed as Notable in Best American Essays. She teaches for the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Sierra Nevada University. Visit her website: suzanneroberts.net.
