Volleyball with the Cuna Indians: And Other Gay Travel Adventures
by Hanns Ebensten

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Book Review: Inventor of Gay Travel Reveals not-quite all.
Summary: 4 Stars

These tales are told from a gay perspective, of course, but they are not "gay" stories with perhaps one exception, his sory of a night in Florance, Italy with 98 motorcycle cops (!) In fact,, one of the failings of this very literate, informed, and entertaining writer is that we do not often learn of his personal involment in the proceedings. He is an observer, a faciltator, a a reporter, a commentator, but we never know how much of a participator. We get tantalizing tid-bits, (he likes leather, 'staches, muscular Greek boys, etc.), but not enough to build up a mosaic picture. He comes across sometimes as fussy, a bit humorless, and even prudish, which cannot be his dominant personality cinsidering his success as a travel agant, guide, and conpanion. Nevertheless, the characters he writes about more than make up for any lack of his owm.

"Volleyball wiht the Cuna Indians" is perhaps,not for everyone. The author assimes his readers know a few words of Latin, French, German and Spanish; also that they have read more widely than the Sports pages. Given his Euro-English upbringing of the 1930's and thet Mr. Ebensten is now nearing eighty, this reader quite forgave these rather quaint, old fashioned notions. Take the trip with Hans. You will be erll rewarded. I wqa!

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