The End Of Elsewhere: Travels Among The Tourists

Witty and provocative, "The End of Elsewhere" is a riotous on-the-road odyssey and a brilliant history of tourism. It will be treasured by anyone who has been conned by "authentic" travel.

""The End of Elsewhere" is a kind of post-millennium "Heart of Darkness," with Grescoe's Marlowe on the trail of a hypothetical camera-toting, Hawaiian-shirted Kurtz . . . A powerful indictment of contemporary tourism and, more fundamentally, it's a cry against the West's exploitation of the Third world in the era of globalization"-"Quill & Quire"

Witty and provocative, "The End of Elsewhere" is a riotous on-the-road odyssey and a brilliant history of tourism. It will be treasured by anyone who has been conned by authentic' travel.

Taras Grescoe has written articles on travel for "Cond Nast Traveler," "National Geographic Traveler"and "The New York Times," His first book "Sacr Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec" won numerous awards in Canada. He lives in Montreal.