Review: The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers

The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers By Eric Hansen. Vintage Departures, 2004, 228 pp. Some travel writers recount trips that are accessible, doable: they describe places we might visit and inspire us to take similar trips ourselves. Other travel writerslike Eric Hansendescribe journeys most of us will never take. We read their work from a different perspective, glad that they have taken these journeys for us and shared the experience. Hansen is an adventurer, a li...