Trust Lingis Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9780816643738

TrustAuthor(s): Alphonso Lingis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816643738, 978-0816643738\nSynopsis\nA traveler to the worlds remote corners muses on human relationships and the nature of travel\n\nTrust is inherent in travel. We ask strangers for directions or for a ride. We live among people whose language, culture, and motivations we dont understand. Trust binds us to one another with an intoxicating energy; it is brave, giddy, joyous, and lustful. A sudden attraction careens into sexual surrender, and trust becomes unconditional. Trust laughs at danger and leaps into the unknown.\n\nThe author of Abuses and Foreign Bodies, Alphonso Lingis has traveled the globe for many years, and in Trust he reflects on journeys from Latin America to Asia to Antarctica. Whether feeding chocolate sauce and tuna to the baboons who visit his campsite in Ethiopia, celebrating the millennial New Year in .