Perceptive Travel January/February 2007

Welcome to the first anniversary issue of Perceptive Travel. Here's what we've got in store for you:

"Searching the BAM For Russia's Lost Moustache" - Guidebook author Robert Reid rides the rails of Siberia, seeking the state of the moustache in the men of today's Russia.

 




"Ballad of a Traveling Buddha" - Joshua Berman returns to Perceptive Travel with a different Buddha tale, this time chronicling the round-the-world travails of his trusty backpacker talisman.

"The Singing Shamen of Tuva" - Dominic Hamilton ventures to a forgotten corner of southern Russia, where shamens and throat singers help him see both the present and future more clearly.

"Hot Times in the Riviera Maya" - Zora O'Neill straddles the worlds of budget traveler and 5-star hotel guest while doing guidebook research in America's satellite playground of Cancun and the Riviera Maya.

"The Original Boondocks" - Globetrotter Dogma author Bruce Northam makes his third appearance in Perceptive Travel with a trek through the original boondocks--the wild footpath-only terraced mountains of northern Luzon, in the Philippines.

 




Plus World music reviews - New Zealander Graham Reid covers this month's music reviews, giving us the scoop on albums from the Middle East, South Africa, and Britain, with a dollop of Afro-American musical history.

Book reviews - This month there's a double dose of travel books. First there's World Party, Stalking the Wild Dik–Dik, The Best American Travel Writing 2006, A Year of Adventures.

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