No Touch Monkey!
And Other Travel Lessons Learned too Late
In which a foolish young thing (me) sets out to see the world on a shoestring in the pre-Internet age.
“We thought you were starving Hungarians,” Jim howled. “No offense, but I’d never heard tell of an American as dirty as the two of you.”
“I laughed hard on nearly every page of this shockingly intimate travel memoir and deeply funny book.”
—Stephen Colbert
Greg writhed on the twin bed opposite mine, whispering threats to the ceiling fan…
“No Touch Monkey is shocking and scatological and straight-out hilarious… a delightful hybrid of Hemingway, David Sedaris and Helen Fielding.”
—Kate Zambreno, New City
The doctor produced an enormous hypodermic full of procaine penicillin and asked us to lower our pants. Bradford went first. “It feels like someone’s shooting peanut butter into my ass!” he yowled.
“An almost shamefully entertaining travelogue of backpacking mishaps, ill-placed trust, and gastric distress.”
—Andi Zeisler, Bitch Magazine
I’ll look at you like the first edition’s author photo if you post a positive customer review on Amazon. Make that Library Journal reviewer (“Perhaps Halliday considers immature behavior, ignorance, and irresponsibility funny, but, in the words of Queen Victoria, ‘We are not amused.’”) see stars!
Other ways to get your hands on this book:
Buy it from an independent bookshop
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