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Mona Lisa's Pajamas gives readers a round-trip ticket for a journey around the world, carrying them to distant destinations most of us will never visit. Originally written for The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News , Copetas' delightfully surprising columns are now collected in book form for the first time. Covering exotic locales, improbable business ventures, artisan winemakers and memorably oddball characters, Copetas' vivid writing brings his subjects alive with richly-textured descriptions only a truly gifted observer can capture. From Sparta's souvenir sword-makers swamped with demand thanks to the hit movie 300 , to a Russian golf pro whose favourite clubs were built from the scrapped metal of a Soviet nuclear missile, Copetas writes of unorthodox business pursuits and faraway locations with an infectious joie de vivre and an unerring eye for what makes enjoyable reading.

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In Mona Lisa's Pajamas , A. Craig Copetas takes you on a rollicking journey around the globe. Thanks to Copetas's wonderful eye and graceful writing, the reader gets to be his faithful sidekick, seeing what he sees, hearing what he hears, smelling what he smells. Even if you are well traveled, he will take you places you've never been before--and would love to visit. --Lawrence Ingrassia, business editor, The New York Times Mona Lisa's Pajamas is an astute and perceptive book that is a joy to read. As journalist A. Craig Copetas roams our planet, he illuminates our times from rare perspectives that no historian could match. With a keen eye, deft insights and sly humor, Copetas assembles a rich mosaic of our world that will enlighten, amaze and entertain anyone with the good sense to snap up his book and savor it. -- Nicholas Gage, author of Eleni and Greek Fire These reports are as much true travel stories as they are character portraits done with the wit, insight, and extraordinary professional experience that brings them to life in the way journalists like A.J. Liebling, Johnny Apple, and Ernest Hemingway once did. -- John Mariani, Virtual Gourmet Newsletter Humanity at its quirkiest pursuits. ...[D]ispatches are delivered in a deadpan hybrid of Robin Leach and Monty Python; Ira Glass with a little more chortle. - -The Los Angeles Times [A] travel book of sorts...so far above the usual old 'Pierre's Bistro is where the locals dine' sort of writing that it simply must not be considered in the same light. ...[Y]ou can treat the book as a learning experience, but you should probably read it just for fun. -- Providence Journal

In Mona Lisa's Pajamas , A. Craig Copetas takes you on a rollicking journey around the globe. Thanks to Copetas's wonderful eye and graceful writing, the reader gets to be his faithful sidekick, seeing what he sees, hearing what he hears, smelling what he smells. Even if you are well traveled, he will take you places you've never been before--and would love to visit. --Lawrence Ingrassia, business editor, The New York Times Mona Lisa's Pajamas is an astute and perceptive book that is a joy to read. As journalist A. Craig Copetas roams our planet, he illuminates our times from rare perspectives that no historian could match. With a keen eye, deft insights and sly humor, Copetas assembles a rich mosaic of our world that will enlighten, amaze and entertain anyone with the good sense to snap up his book and savor it. -- Nicholas Gage, author of Eleni and Greek Fire These reports are as much true travel stories as they are character portraits done with the wit, insight, and extraordinary professional experience that brings them to life in the way journalists like A.J. Liebling, Johnny Apple, and Ernest Hemingway once did. -- John Mariani, Virtual Gourmet Newsletter Humanity at its quirkiest pursuits. ...[D]ispatches are delivered in a deadpan hybrid of Robin Leach and Monty Python; Ira Glass with a little more chortle. - -The Los Angeles Times [A] travel book of sorts...so far above the usual old 'Pierre's Bistro is where the locals dine' sort of writing that it simply must not be considered in the same light. ...[Y]ou can treat the book as a learning experience, but you should probably read it just for fun. -- Providence Journal <p> <p> <br>

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A. Craig Copetas is a senior writer at Bloomberg News whose travel pieces often run in the International Herald Tribune. In the 1970s, Copetas worked as a correspondent for Rolling Stone's London bureau and as an editor at Esquire. He has lived and worked in Russia, China, Great Britain, Latin America and the Middle East.

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