Volleyball with the Cuna Indians
And Other Gay Travel Adventures
By Hanns Ebensten
Key West tour operator Ebensten has been escorting travelers on imaginative
expeditions for 40 years. In his early days, his appetite for off-beat
adventure took him around the world as he lived in private castles or YMCAs,
went beachcombing, or sybaritically covered himself with hot mud in the
ancient stone troughs of Italy's Lacco Ameno. He enjoyed a wild night in a
dormitory with 98 armed and priapic motorcycle cops and accepted the casual
hospitality of the rich or famous, partying with Lady Diana Cooper and
tutoring Bertrand Russell's granddaughters. As a tour operator, Ebensten
attracted a clientele of artists, scholars, playboys, gays and the more
intrepid of the general run of travelers. Under his guidance they tended
either to rough it or to live high. In Peru, for example, while others might
have satisfied themselves with the standard visit to Machu Picchu, his
groups trekked to Vilcabamba, the true Inca capital; in Greece they not only
viewed sacred Mount Olympus but climbed it. Stylish, cultivated, witty and
frankly gay, Ebensten draws often hilarious portraits of travelers whom
readers would not otherwise meet, and places rarely visited.
Penguin, New York, 1993, 1st paperback printing, 335 pages, 5" x 7 3/4",
trade paperback.
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