Welcome to the February 2010 issue of online magazine Perceptive Travel, the home of great travel stories from book authors and the latest notable travel book reviews. Here's what we've got in store for you:
Eating a Personal Pig - Zora O'Neill
An omnivore and cookbook author faces her demons at a pork and rice liquor feast in Bali.
Morocco: Give Me the Simple Life - Jim Johnston
In Morocco visiting his mother—the oldest Peace Corps volunteer in the world—Jim Johnston comes to terms with how comfort and happiness survive while living an ascetic lifestyle in a drab village.
Mardi Gras on New England's Left Coast - Bruce Northam
Bruce Northam finds that the Magic Hat Mardi Gras party in Burlington, Vermont is a very different affair than the blow-out in New Orleans. Can a party have a conscience?
Yoga music that's interesting on its own, the third album from Las Rubias del Norte, and Vieux Farka Touré gets the multi-producer remix treatment.
Joshua Berman reviews To Hellholes and Back by Chuck Thompson, The Bizarre Truth by Andrew Zimmern, and Letters to Zerky by Bill Raney and JoAnne Walker Raney
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