“I think a proper story makes us laugh or feel sad or teaches us something important. James Dorsey tells those kinds of stories.”
—Tim Cahill, co-founder, Outside magazine, author of Hold the Enlightenment and Jaguars Ripped My Flesh

This is not your average travel book, but an entree to some of the world’s remote corners and people.

Introduction by Erin Byrne; Recommended by Tim Cahill

Author and explorer James Michael Dorsey has spent two decades visiting the world’s most remote tribal cultures. In Baboons for Lunch and Other Sordid Adventures, he tells his remarkable travel stories in rollicking accounts that keep readers off balance and eager for more.

Many stories are funny, others are poignant, and quite a few are heart stopping, while others are unique insights into remote ways of life most of the world does not know exists.

In this book the reader will climb a remote volcano in Ethiopia, cross the Sahara Desert with nomads, undergo a tribal exorcism, and visit shamans, healers, witch doctors, and holy men.

James Michael Dorsey is an award-winning author and explorer who has traveled in 48 countries to visit remote cultures before they vanish.
He has written for Lonely Planet, BBC Travel, BBC Wildlife, Geographic Expeditions, Panorama, and is a frequent contributor to United Airlines and Perceptive Travel. He has also written for Colliers, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Wend, Natural History, and GoNomad. He writes for numerous African magazines, and is a travel consultant to Brown & Hudson of London, and correspondent for Camerapix International of Nairobi.

His last book, Vanishing Tales from Ancient Trails, is available from all major booksellers. His stories have appeared in 18 anthologies, including The Best Travel Writing (Volumes 10, and 11) from Travelers’ Tales, plus the 2016 Lonely Planet Travel Anthology. He has won the grand prize for best travel writing from the Solas Awards, Transitions Abroad, and Nowhere Magazine.

He is a fellow of the Explorers Club and former director of the Adventurers Club.

Author’s Preface
Introduction

Part One: Humorous Travels
Monks and Monkey Poop on the Mountain
Me and Tea in Burma
Commies, Crickets, and Kitties in China
Burrowing Beneath Budapest
Mekong Moonshine

Part Two: Discoveries and Revelations
Jordan’s Bull
From the Ashes
My Maasai Night
My Mexican Bus
A Life Not Chosen

Part Three: Adrenalin
Common Ground in the Kasbah
To Live or Die in the Danakil
Conversations with a Caveman

Part Four: Emotional Journeys
A Kiss for the Condemned
A Stone for Henry Leman
Homecoming
Limping Home from Kashgar
Death and Remembrance

Part Five: Personal Stories
Photo Ops with Buddha
Breaking Bread in Kanas
Kingpin
Of Email and Kings
The Sahara Dialogues
Walking with Markus
The Last Muezzin of Timbuktu

Part Six: Personal Essays
Listening to the Silence
Thoughts of a World Traveler
Travels with Layla

Until the Next Journey
About the Author