The Viewing Platform

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penquin Books
Publisher Place: Auckland
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: 346 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: New Zealand's spectacular scenic views are used in this bitingly satirical novel as launching platforms for the catastrophic road trip by a team of dysfunctional cultural tourism consultants. They disappear, they go berserk, they self-destruct, the end up in porn sites and sit-down ablution facilities for the elderly. It's Beauty, Purity, Authenticity, Adventure and Hospitality that destroy the team. Combining satire, essay and road-trip storyline, The Viewing Platform also asks the questions: where are we when we re at home? In the sex-bandit underworld of Bangladesh ('Get here before the tourists do'), amid the marketable beauties of New Zealand s iconic landscapes, in the demand-side danger and supply-side safety of adventure tourism, in an Absolutely Pure place, home goes terribly wrong. So what survives'.

ISBN: 9780143020929