Tales From the Torrid Zone
Alexander Frater was born to a family of Scottish expatriates on the tiny island of Irikiki in the South Seas. Following his dreams of being a writer, Frater left home, but the call of the tropics compelled him to return again and again. Join him as he dines with the Queen of Tonga; makes his way through two civil wars; visits the spots where surfing and bungee jumping originated; and expresses his love for the region where he is at once a tourist, explorer, adventurer, and native son. From Tahiti to Thailand, Mexico to Mozambique, Frater gives us a richly described, endlessly surprising picture of this diverse, feverish, languorously beautiful world.
400 pages, 7 editions
English edition · First published 2004 by Random House Digital Inc. · ISBN 9780307795250
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Editions
7 editions
English
- Tales From the Torrid Zone · Random House Digital Inc. · 2011 · ISBN 9780307795250 This page
- Tales From the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics · Picador · 2013 · ISBN 9781447244509
- Tales From the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics · Picador · 2011 · ISBN 9780330542081
- Tales From the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics · Vintage Books · 2008 · ISBN 9780307388261
- Tales From the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics · Knopf · 2007 · ISBN 9780679408710
- Tales From the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics · Picador · 2004 · ISBN 9780330375283
- Tales From the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics · Picador · 2004 · ISBN 9780330375290
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