How Not to Avoid Jet Lag & other tales of travel madness

How Not to Avoid Jet Lag & other tales of travel madness

What's the road-toasted travel writer to do after leaving the road behind? 
Why not put together a series of insights and observations from Belize to Shangrila, have each illustrated lovingly with a one-panel cartoon and put together a collection of short stories with a memorable yet slightly unwieldy title? 

Announcing How Not to Avoid Jet Lag & other tales of travel madness by Lonely Planet Author Joshua Samuel Brown, nineteen stories ranging from new journalism and creative non-fiction to surreal dreamscape and exotic hallucination.

"I've often thought that guidebook writing attracts the mad, the bad and the slightly crazed. If he didn't start that way – perhaps a pre-writing career as a bike messenger helped – his years on the road have certainly contributed to Joshua’s off-kilter take on the world." - Tony Wheeler, Lonely Planet Co-founder.

Among the off-kilter tales in How Not to Avoid Jet Lag & other tales of travel madness: 
My Parents Are Little People , a story of the bizarre lengths a travel writer will go in pursuit of a hotel review; Supper in Uyghurville , a gritty tale of menace, drugs and journalism from Beijing's darkest hutong;  The Milky Teat of Serendipity , a hallucinatory flight of fancy featuring Singaporean Prime Ministers, Taiwanese presidents and a wandering goat-milk salesgirl;  The Worst Place in the World , strong contender for the 2015's "travel story most likely to garner a cease and desist letter from Ikea" award.


How Not to Avoid Jet Lag & other tales of travel madness : Nineteen stories, observations, and exotic hallucinations from the increasingly demented mind of Travel Writer Joshua Samuel Brown, with illustrations by David Lee Ingersoll. 
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Print version available in 2015.