Llama for Lunch

by Lydia Laube

Lydia Laube, one of the world's dauntless, intrepid travellers, is off to South America in search of the sun. Braving hair-raising mountainous tracks, bandits, immigration officials, jungle beasts and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1862545766
• ISBN13: 9781862545762
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Wakefield Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Some startling aspects of the book

I'd like to give this 3 1/2, but rounded up as she has a great sense of humor. The first section takes place in the United States. She arrives at O'Hare airport from overseas. Upon arrival at her in-town hotel, she remarks that finally she could understand the locals, "explaining" that the hotel clerk was the first caucasian with whom she'd interacted in the States (I'm paraphrasing here). Ummmmmm .... for someone who had travelled as much as she had in other parts of the world, I'll be charitable and decide that she must still be VERY naive. Later, in the south, she harps on that fact that Americans are sooooooo obese! Somuch so that for the rest of the day I kept an eye out for the legions of beer-bellied children she ran across. They all seemed pretty height-weight proportional to me. Her observations on the Latin American trip itself were equally subjective, although she presents them more clearly as her opinions - agree or not. I'd recommend her as an author because ... well ... she's funny. Just don't mistake her for a serious travel writer.