An Evening Among Headhunters

This is the sort of book that you can keep by your bedside and dip into when you need to read a little before sleep. Not that it is soporific, but it is doled out in little bite-sized pieces. Or read on the train on the way to work in order to enjoy an otherwise mundane trip. Or take on holidays and......more

How did Millman manage to find such remote spots in the world? It's not like you can advertise and have people tell you about these places. Nevertheless, somehow Millman did find these odd places and visited them. The stories he tells while visiting here and there, way, way, way off the map, edge in......more

Millman has an easy style of interacting with locals of foreign cultures that comes from a lack of pretension and seriousness of oneself. These are entertaining short stories that offer insights into cultures from from the beaten path, and sometimes in ways that are more unsettling than the cliches......more

Quaint. Lawrence Millman is a well humored and traveled fellow. His propensity to seek out the far flung places on the globe makes his stories more interesting though he lives in relative comfort in these places, guides and lodging. Mostly his lyrical way of relating his tales pulls the book along s......more