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(More customer reviews)Champ's odyssey through countries as diverse as Greece, China, Mexico, Russia, France and the U.S., is an anecdotally entertaining diversion. Although about half the book centers on Mexico (a place this reviewer avoids at all costs), it is not only instructive in that it offers cautions for fellow travelers to that loudly mystical land, but also entertains those of us who occupy armchairs rather than airplane seats.Champ is especially telling in his recounting of the expatriate communities he finds generally wanting, not just in Mexico but elsewhere. One senses that if he set out to take up the expat life, he was quickly disabused of those American and British enclaves with their greed, pettiness and gossip-mongering.The author is obviously and seriously at home on the road, having mastered several languages, and he must have kept a meticulous journal, since the accounts of his adventures are most often funnily specific and detailed -- all told with an easy charm and written with elan.Anyone who can evoke the feeling produced by Southwestern France's Le Gouffre de Padriac's chasm with this kind of turn of phrase -- "suggests those very fears expressed by people with serious earthquake anxiety who feel they'll be swallowed up in some geotectonic orgy of massive Richterian registration" is worth spending some agreeable time with.You'll find the time spent in Champ's cosmos well rewarded.
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Approaching the Cosmos Hotel is a compendium of travels, an odyssey through much of the world over many years, a memoir that explores events, cultures, gastronomy, architecture and art through the critical lens of a man who doesn't take himself too seriously. Robert Champ's experiences humorously expose the fools, hypocrites and outre characters he encounters: out-of-their-element expats in Mexico and Spain, tourists in Russia or China who might better have stayed home, rigid officialdom everywhere. Fascinating landscapes and personalities limn these pages, and the armchair adventurer seeking an unconventional narrative will have no trouble finding it here.
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