Award-winning travel writer and photographer
Laurie McAndish King is an award-winning travel writer and photographer whose stories have aired on NPR and been published in Lonely Planet, Travelers’ Tales, and other literary anthologies. Her articles and photography have also appeared in the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Smithsonian magazine.
MEET LAURIE
WILD THING, I THINK I LOVE YOU!
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You’ll find plenty to love in these encounters with wildlife around the world: Elephants, lemurs, brown bears, bald eagles, leatherback turtles, wildebeest, toucans, lizards, lions, rhinos, and even earthworms.
TRUE STORIES FROM A CURIOUS TRAVELER
Lost, Kidnapped,
Eaten Alive!
Turmoil: Escape kidnappers in a foreign desert, lock the keys in your car in the middle of the Outback, accidentally marry a Maasai warrior…
DISCOVER
Your Crocodile
has Arrived
Oddities: Enjoy a whole-body chocolate massage, pilgrimage to visit a sacred tooth, see a 20-foot-long earthworm, befriend a Brazilian shaman…
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An Elephant Ate
My Arm
Intrigue: Perform a photographic invasion of Libya, eat a Japanese pizza that seems to be alive, visit a glass case full of shrunken heads, walk on a man-eating lake…
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