A review by amawomps
The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall by Lawrence Osborne

3.0

This was very interesting but all in all, I feel like I knew the answer to the question Lawrence was posing from the very beginning, that there will eventually be nowhere that nobody's seen before. It was a very interesting travelogue and it reminded me of how my dad would describe places he's been (which makes sense considering he's the one that gave it to me). I like the idea and the fact that Lawrence was simply a normal guy compared to his anthropologist peers on his journey, and that he was simply driven by boredom and curiosity, the privilege of many in America today. I do wish that the chapter on Papua itself was a bit longer, as most of the book was taken up by accounts of the lands leading up to it which to me wasn't the central part of the curiosity for me. I loved the ending though, it was very eloquent and left me thinking about my own travels and why I have the urge to travel more.