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Under The Protection Of The Cow Demon: Dispatches From The Unexpected World

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This is not just another travel book; the writing of Edward Readicker-Henderson takes you to exotic locations and makes you look at the world in a whole new way. The author accomplishes this through keen attention to two things: geographical details and the human condition. His stories are sometimes funny, sometimes absurd, sometimes melancholy, often touching, and always insightful. Readicker-Henderson doesn't just tell you about the landmarks that make a location unique, his prose seems to capture place's psyche - or perhaps its soul. Reading one of his essays, you'll feel like you know a place, even if you've never been there. Open Under the Protection of the Cow Demon, and let its masterful author whisk you away to places far and strange. You'll be glad you made the trip.

Edward Readicker-Henderson spins tales that read like poetry. Travel poetry, the expeditions of dreams, shimmering mirages of fish arcing past a bear's nose or mysterious flying cows spreading wings, impossibly gentle and optimistic yet concurrently snarky.

Not that I mean to put off those readers who are not poetry fans. His essays are, simply put, beautifully written. But also full of hope, romance, and more than a fair serving of humor.