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Newsham, Brad Take Me With You: A Round-the-World Journey to Invite a Stranger Home
Ballantine Books February 26, 20 0-345-44912-6 / 9780345449122 Paperback Very Good
After two decades of travels around the world, Brad Newsham decides to pack his bags again to return the gift of magic that travel has brought into hi s life. His plan is to give a little of that back to someone he meets along the way--to invite a new untraveled friend to visit him, all-expenses paid , in America. Over the course of 100 days through the Philippines, India, E gypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, he asks, "What would the se [people] make of my culture? Wouldn't the Grand Canyon or a redwood grov e or a Safeway store, gleaming and fully-stocked at two o'clock in the morn ing, amaze them the way their culture and all the other cultures I've stumb led into recently have amazed me?" Three months through so many diverse countries could easily be nothing more than a superficial jaunt. But Newsham's goal gives him and the book a purpose, for any chance encounter is significant. His stance is no longer, "What does this person want from me?" (a valid concern in countries where begging takes a hundred forms), but "What miracle might our meeting produce?" Newsham easily makes friends with his quick and quirky sense of humor and ability to elicit their wishes, truths, pains, and pleasures. He asks each person he meets--from a sadhu at the banks of the Ganges to a 110-year-old Tanzanian on the flank of Mt. Kilimanjaro--what the best and worst times in their lives have been, and the answers take us straight into their lives. While Newsham is skilled in drawing each exotic city and village, it is these meetings with strangers-quickly-turned-friends that make Take Me with You such an engrossing read.
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