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Condition: Very Good Jacket: slight discolouring due to age. Book: ink mark on bottom edges, insignificant stain on leading edge, very light dust stains on top edge. Short ink inscription on flyleaf and light creasing on early pages, but pages otherwise clean. A good example of this informative book. Content: "In this wild, picturesque romp through some of the world's most exotic and undiscovered travel destinations, Hanns Ebensten recounts his adventures hiking across deserts, hacking his way through jungles, and climbing mountains over the course of nearly sixty years - and he describes the fascinating cast of characters he has encountered. Beginning in 1935, when eleven-year-old Hanns met (and developed a crush on) King Sobhuza II of Swaziland, Ebensten takes us to postwar Paris where he (inadvertently) went nightclubbing with movie stars and generals; to Florence, where he shared quarters in a youth hostel for one soon-to-be-notorious night with ninety-eight motorcycle cops; on a cruise to Turkey and Russia with, among other noables, Dame Rose Macaulay, with whom he discussed black leather; to the ruins of the almost mythical Vilcabamba in Peru, the last refuge of the Incas, considered impossible for tourists to visit. "In 1972 Ebensten founded his own travel company, pioneering the concept of all-male gay guided tours to excitingly unique locales, and throughout much of the book he recounts the joys and vicissitudes of these journeys. In wonderfully dramatic vignettes, Ebensten describes rubber-rafting the frothing rapids of the Colorado River on annual river-running trips that turned the Grand Canyon gay; lolling in thatched huts with the primitive Cuna Indians on the San Blas Islands, off the coast of Panama; visiting the monasteries of Mount Athos in modern Greece, where access is forbidden to women and the monks are more than friendly; serenely cruising the Nile on felucca sailboats and the congenial ambience aboard; nearly causing a riot in Beijing's Summer Palace when his entire group of men insisted on trying on the last empress of China's gowns and headdresses; and numerous other escapades . . . Beautifully written and filled with Ebensten's delightful tongue-in-cheek humor, Volleyball with the Cuna Indians is also guaranteed to be the only book ever published in which Marlene Dietrich, Colonel Manuel Noriega, Lady Diana Cooper and gay porn star Casey Donovan all make real-life appearances within the same two covers." (from the jacket) Background / Biography: "Hanns Ebensten has arranged and conducted tours, cruises and expeditions to remote, unusually interesting and adventurous places for forty years. His agency, Hanns Ebensten Travel Inc, in Key West, Florida, celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 1992. He is a regular contributor to Christopher Street,Archaeology Magazine, The Advocate and the Society for Helenic Travel Review among other publications." (from the jacket) Reviews: "There is nobody in the world quite like Mr Ebensten, and there has never been a book quite like this. Even if, like me, you skip the bits about gay sex, you will find it marvelously loaded with wit, astonishment, elegant writing, entertaining prejudice and plain human affection." Jan Morris "I knew Volleyball with the Cuna Indians would be informative, but it is also funny - outrageously funny. Woven with the useful facts about little-known places are hilarious experiences with Lady Diana Cooper on the one hand and ninety-eight Italian motorcycle cops on the other. It is a book not to be missed." Quentin Crisp (advance praise from the jacket) Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "'Send me some nice Americans, dear boy,' said the Honorable Colin Tennant. It was 1972, soon after I had opened my travel company in New York; he was the owner of the island of Mustique, one of the lovely Grenadines between Saint Vincent and Grenada in the Caribbean, which he had bought from the French government. It was an exclusive and carefully guarded private retreat for a handful of his friends whom he had encouraged to build villas there, and he had created a casually elegant ten-room hotel, the Cotton House, as a focal point and social center for these members of the smart and rich international set. " opening paragraph, Chapter Seven Secondhand booksellers |
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