Bali to Bahrein Author:Grant C. Butler Whether he is sampling a medieval dinner in an Irish castle, watching a Polynesian ritual at the edge of a jungle, or discovering open-air markets in Moscow, Grant Butler never loses the capacity for observing people that gives his travel books their special flavor. Bali to Bahrein is a world-circling account of faraway places, where the author ... more »always escapes the tourist route of swimming pool and cocktail lounge to explore the hidden countryside and get to know the people who live there. When his speaking schedule takes him to Kabul in Afghanistan, he stays long enough to drive the legendary Khyber Pass in the Hindu Kush Mountains. From Buenos Aires, he goes off to the Falls of Iguassu and to an unforgettable boat ride to the Devil's Throat where water breaks over a 230-foot precipice into ta churning basin below. In Iran, he detours to Isfahan to see the Blue Mosque and the Summer Palace of the Shahs. It is the remote bazaars, the native restaurants, the little-known towns of antiquity and the people who inhabit them that constitute the fabric of this, his third book.« less