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 The Gringo Trail - Mark Mann
 The Gringo Trail - Mark Mann ... and dialogue that you will encounter in 'The Gringo Trail' will affect you. Mann's caustic humour cuts to the quick; his narrative is compelling to the last. His characters are inextricably linked in a relationship that will amuse, exasperate and intrigue. 'The Gringo Trail' is non-fiction writing, purveying the sense, as in life, of the interconnected relationship between fantasy and reality. Mann writes in order to expand our minds, not only in the magic realism of the drug episodes but also in our exposure to the politics and humanity of ancient and modern South America. 'The Gringo Trail' is highly reminiscent of the ever popular and cultic drug travelogues - the text taps into youth culture sensationalism in the same way as the immensely sucessful 'On the Road' and 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'.Newest Review: ... Bolivia and Columbia - meeting some strange locals, staying in some bad cheap hotels, hanging out with lots of other ... more ... travellers, making some (sometimes) interesting points about ecology and politics but mostly taking lots of drugs - some of them the stuff they could have found back home and others of a much more exotic and psychedelic nature. They camp in some wild and glorious places, get into a few scrapes and generally do the sort of things backpackers do all over the world. The title - The Gringo Trail - reflects the name given by the locals to the well travelled path taken by the itinerant backpacking community.
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The Gringo Trail - Mark Mann: Eh Gringo? Are you going my way? (2045 words)
by - written on 06/09/06 (Very useful, 151 readings)
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Drugs and Travel ************** Whilst backpacking I once came across an Australian who'd been on the road for two years and been just about everywhere. I asked him 'Where's the best place you've been in all that time'. He hardly paused to think and named a small village in India. Intrigued, I asked him why that place was so special. I was expecting some deep and meaningful reason or some event of major significance. He looked me in the eye and said 'I got stoned for a week and it cost me next to nothing'. Two years on the road and the thing that stood out head and shoulders above all the world's greatest monuments, fabulous scenery and cultural ... Read the complete review
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