An Elephant Ate My Arm: More True Stories from a Curious Traveler - Paperback

by Laurie McAndish King (Author)

Award-winning travel narrative

• First Place, Travel, Paris Book Festival (2021)
• Gold Winner, Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) / eLit Awards
• Silver Medalist, North American Book Awards (2022)

Travel isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it bites back.

In this third collection, the stakes are higher, the encounters closer, and the consequences more immediate. These true stories venture into moments where awe and risk collide-where the line between observer and participant disappears.

With vivid storytelling and a fearless sense of curiosity, these essays capture the thrill-and the cost-of stepping fully into the unknown:

• Perform a photographic invasion in Libya
• Visit a glass case full of shrunken heads
• Walk on a man-eating lake...

The result is a travel experience that is immersive, unpredictable, and, at times, astonishingly intimate.

Because the most unforgettable journeys can change how you see the world.

Part of The Curious Traveler series: True stories from the edge of misadventure.

Start with curiosity. Cross the line. See what happens next.