Publisher's Synopsis
Told with well-observed humour and an affection for the peculiar, this is a story about disasters, big and small.
When Jamie took her first big trip to South America, she was swiftly and irrevocably hooked. The In-between Places recounts her best worst travel stories, in which we find the author fending off monstrous insects in the jungles of Bolivia, confronting death and public transportation in India, and enduring hypothermia, altitude sickness, and a nocturnal altercation with a donkey in the Kyrgyzstan mountains. Earthquakes, car crashes, venomous snakes, performance art, and tyrannical cattle farmers all take their turn in this quirky collection of global escapades. The In-between Places is a celebration of the human experience and an uplifting read that will remind readers of the joy of travel and how our worst experiences often make for the best stories.
