The Naked Man Festival: and Other Excuses to Fly Around the World by Brian Thacker
"It was only a degree above zero and the rain was coming down in sheets, yet here I was about to run around in nothing more than a nappy. I was pretty sure it was going to be the silliest thing I'd ever done."
Join Brian Thacker as he embarks on a round-the-world odyssey in search of as many silly, outlandish and even staggeringly banal festivals as time, distance and severe bouts of exposure will allow. Along the way he is pelted with beans, overawed by giant snow cows and stampeded in a temple full of men wearing nappies in hot pursuit of a stick. And that's just in Japan.
Brian also manages to narrowly escape being sacrificed by a Voodoo priest in Haiti and to retain his eyebrows after celebrating Hogmanay in Scotland. He discovers 101 new and interesting things to do with a tomato, meets a woman at the UFO Festival in Roswell who is regularly used by aliens for perverted medical experiments and hangs out at the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras with a bloke called Miss Stephanie.
Format: Paperback | 276 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.5 x 13 x 2 | 268g
Publication Date: 01 Oct 2004
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publication City/Country: Crows Nest, Australia
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 1741143993
ISBN13: 9781741143997
Condition: Good
A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very, very minor scuff marks along the, but no holes or tears. The insides of the front and back covers have both browned with age, but no discolouring anywhere else in the book. All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.