Approaching The Cosmos Hotel
Travels in the World
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About the Book
Approaching the Cosmos Hotel is a compendium of travels, an odyssey through much of the world over many years, a memoir that explores events, cultures, gastronomy, architecture and art through the critical lens of a man who doesn't take himself too seriously. Robert Champ's experiences humorously expose the fools, hypocrites and outré characters he encounters: out-of-their-element expats in Mexico and Spain, tourists in Russia or China who might better have stayed home, rigid officialdom everywhere. Fascinating landscapes and personalities limn these pages, and the armchair adventurer seeking an unconventional narrative will have no trouble finding it here.
About the Author
Robert Champ grew up in Kansas City in the 1950s and spent his late teens wandering the Pacific with the Navy. He lived in Los Angeles in the sixties and worked a few years at Columbia Pictures while completing his baccalaureate in anthropology. A UCLA grant program led to a teaching career and a move to San Francisco in the early seventies. The writer has lived in Mexico and Europe, boated on the upper Amazon, survived hairpin mountain curves and precipices in the Caucasus, faced down a true-believing Intourist guide and paranoid young customs agents in the old Soviet Union. An extensive China trip included a long ride up the Yangtze. Interests include chamber music, dance theatre, and the nouvelle vague cinema.