Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why by Sean O'reilly

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Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why by Sean O'reilly

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Summary

Fifth in their series on travelling, this collection of hilarious tales from the road, or the side of the road, chronicles missed planes, dreadful faux pas, and misadventures of every kind experienced by people who are bold enough to travel and brave enough to share their stories of failure.

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Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why by Sean O'reilly

Everyone knows that stories improve with the telling, and nothing helps a travel story more than something going wrong. As soon as things stop going your way you know you're in trouble, but the frustration, embarrassment, danger, and inconvenience provide great material for stories once the anguish has faded. What we remember are the absurd, surreal, and wacky moments when travel becomes slapstick and grand plans dissolve into comedy. The adventurers here encounter just about everything you'd never expect, from a monster dildo that won't go away to becoming the prey of religious zealots at the world's largest human gathering to the proverbial hair in my soup at a French restaurant and the proprietor's remarkable solution to the problem. In a case of life imitating art, nothing is too ridiculous on the road, as these travelers discover and so generously share without shame or undue embarrassment.

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James O'Reilly, publisher of Travelers' Tales, was born in Oxford, England, and raised in San Francisco. He's visited fifty countries and lived in four, along the way meditating with monks in Tibet, participating in West African voodoo rituals, rafting the Zambezi, and hanging out with nuns in Florence and penguins in Antarctica. He travels whenever he can with his wife and their three daughters. They live in Palo Alto, California, where they also publish art games and books for children at Birdcage Press (birdcagepress.com).

Larry Habegger, executive editor of Travelers' Tales, has visited almost fifty countries and six of the seven continents, traveling from the Arctic to equatorial rainforests, the Himalayas to the Dead Sea. In the 1980s he co-authored mystery serials for the San Francisco Examiner with James O'Reilly, and since 1985 has written a syndicated column, World Travel Watch (WorldTravelWatch.com). Habegger regularly teaches travel writing at workshops and writers' conferences, is a principal of the Prose Doctors (prosedoctors.com), and editor-in-chief of Triporati.com, a destination discovery site. He lives with his family on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.

Sean O'Reilly is editor-at-large for Travelers' Tales. He is a former seminarian, stockbroker, and prison instructor who lives in Virginia with his wife and their six children. He's had a lifelong interest in philosophy and theology, and is the author of How to Manage Your DICK: Redirect Sexual Energy and Discover Your More Spiritually Enlightened, Evolved Self (dickmanagement.com). His travels of late have taken him through China, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific; his most recent non-travel project is redbrazil.com, a bookselling site.

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ISBN 13 9781885211972
ISBN 10 188521197X
Title Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why
Author Sean O'reilly
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Travelers' Tales, Incorporated
Year published 2003-11-06
Number of pages 232
Prizes Winner of IndieFab awards (Humor) 2003
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.