The Critics: Adventures in Going Native

In this week’s Washington Post “Book World,” Kate Fogarty reviews four travel books with a “going native” theme. She praises two: A translation of Corinne Hofmann’s The White Masai and John Taliaferro’s In a Far Country. She writes: “Taliaferro, a former senior editor at Newsweek and author of three earlier books, expertly introduces readers to the forces of nature, religion, culture, business and government at work in the late 1800s.” Daniel Kalder’s Lost Cosmonaut: Confessions of an Anti-Tourist and Eric Talmadge’s Getting Wet: Adventures in the Japanese Bath, according to Fogarty, fall short of the other selections.

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