White Sands is a collection of short essays or stories loosely on the subject of travel. I picked it up after reading a funny excerpt from the title piece on the back cover: Geoff and his wife pick up a hitchhiker in the New Mexico desert, then see a sign warning them not to pick up hitchhikers because of nearby detention centers.
The first chapter follows Geoff on a trip to Tahiti "in the footsteps" of Gauguin. It raises interesting questions about why we travel to the places that we do, and it captures the traveler's balance between interest and disappointment. In fact, these are recurring themes in several of the chapters.
I liked the first half of the book better than the final half. The pieces were more thematically related and had a better tonal balance.
The first chapter follows Geoff on a trip to Tahiti "in the footsteps" of Gauguin. It raises interesting questions about why we travel to the places that we do, and it captures the traveler's balance between interest and disappointment. In fact, these are recurring themes in several of the chapters.
I liked the first half of the book better than the final half. The pieces were more thematically related and had a better tonal balance.
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