PRAISE FOR LOST COSMONAUT
'Revelatory'
Times Literary Supplement
‘Kalder has written a brilliantly funny travel book that questions the
essence of exploration and the nature of tourism in an age when
there’s nowhere new to go...’
Esquire
'Kalder's black humour is a new voice from the black holes of the
world.'
The Times (London)
'Imagine a musical by Beckett, with lyrics by Hunter Thompson and
the Sex Pistols...'
The New York Times
'A considerable achievement'
The Guardian
'Irreverent and laugh- out- loud hilarious... Kalder challenges us to
see the beauty in oblivion... '
Los Angeles Times
'Lost Cosmonaut makes both an insightful travel journal and a good
memoir... His observations on his existential dread and self-
consciousness are just as sharp-eyed as those on, say, pagan ritual
in Mari-El'
Playboy
'...mordantly funny yet deeply affecting... the antithesis of every
travel book I've ever read.'
Scotland On Sunday
'Imagine a Bill Bryson with Tourette's, and you'll have some of the
flavour of this spasmodic, deliberately crass, strangely wonderful
book'
Evening Standard
'A cult waiting to happen'
The Sunday Times
'Hilarious and abrasive'
The Independent
'...hilarious... black comedy meets travel reportage of the best kind.'
The Herald
'... nothing short of brilliant. Kalder blends travel writing, history and
comedy to from this eye opening debut quite unlike any other.'
The Bookseller
'...wonderfully funny and eccentric..'
Publishing News
'Kalder's adventures are daring and make for exciting reading...
cool, wry, lively and fun.'
Booklist
‘…amidst the dirt and depravity, Kalder remains humorous, highly
irreverent and brilliantly knowledgeable about the vastly complex
and extremely violent ethnic history of these places …’
The First Post
BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
Amazon UK 'Best Books Of 2006'
Travel Book of the Month
The Bookseller
Reviewer's Choice Non- fiction Book of the Month
The Bookseller
Book of the Month
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