Baboons for Lunch

James Michael Dorsey is an award-winning author and explorer who has traveled in 48 countries to visit remote cultures before they vanish.He has written for LONELY PLANET, BBC TRAVEL, BBC WILDLIFE, GEOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS, Chicken SOUP FOR THE SOUL, and is a frequent contributor to UNITED AIRLINES¿ HEMISPHERE and PERCEPTIVE TRAVEL. He has also written for COLLIERS, The CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WEND, NATURAL HISTORY, and GONOMAD. He writes for numerous African magazines, and is a travel consultant to BROWN&HUDSON of London, and correspondent for CAMERAPIX INTERNATIONAL of Nairobi.He is the author of VANISHING TALES FROM ANCIENT TRAILS, and his stories have appeared in 18 anthologies, including THE BEST TRAVEL WRITING volumes 10 and 11, plus the 2016 Lonely Planet Travel Anthology. He has won the grand prize for best travel writing from the Solas Awards, and other awards from TRANSITIONS ABROAD and NOWHERE MAGAZINE.He is a fellow of the Explorers Club and former director of the Adventurers Club.

BABOONS FOR LUNCH And Other Sordid Adventures is a rollicking collection of travel stories by an explorer who has spent two decades visiting the most remote tribal societies on earth. It is adventure travel, storytelling, literature, and humor, from the world¿s most remote corners as an intrepid city dweller encounters ancient peoples for the first time.

Author PrefaceIntroductionChapter One, Humorous TravelsMonks and Monkey Poop on the MountainMe and Tea in BurmaCommies, Crickets, and Kitties in ChinaBurrowing Beneath BudapestMekong MoonshineChapter Two, Discoveries and RevelationsJordan¿s BullFrom the AshesRemembranceMy Maasai NightMy Mexican BusChapter Three, AdrenalinCommon Ground in the KasbahTo Live or Die in the DanakilConversations with a CavemanChapter Four, Emotional JourneysRemembranceA Kiss for the CondemnedA Stone for Henry LemanHomecomingLimping Home from KashgarChapter Five, Personal StoriesPhoto Ops with BuddhaBreaking Bread in KanasKingpinOf Email and KingsThe Sahara DialoguesWalking with MarkusChapter Six, Personal EssaysListening to the SilenceThoughts of a World TravelerTravels with Layla