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Naked at Lunch: A Reluctant Nudist's Adventures in the Clothing-Optional World by Mark Haskell Smith (Hardback, 2015)

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People have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as velist and narrative journalist Mark Haskell Smith shows in Naked at Lunch, being a nudist is more complicated than simply dropping trou. Nonsexual social nudism, as it s called, rose to prominence in the late nineteenth century. Intellectuals, outcasts, and health nuts from Victorian England and colonial India to Belle Epoque France and Gilded Age Manhattan disrobed and wrote manifestos about the joys of going clothing-free. From stories of ancient Greek athletes slathered in olive oil to the millions of Germans who fled the cities for a naked frolic during the Weimar Republic to American soldiers given naturist magazines by the Pentagon in the interest of preventing sexually transmitted diseases, Haskell Smith uncovers nudism s amusing and provocative past. Naked at Lunch is equal parts cultural history and gonzo participatory journalism. Coated in multiple layers of high SPF sunblock, Haskell Smith dives into the nudist world today. He publicly disrobes for the first time in Palm Springs, observes the culture of family nudism in a clothing-free Spanish town, and travels to the largest nudist resort in the world, a hedonist s paradise in the south of France. He reports on San Francisco s controversial ban on public nudity, participates in a week of naked hiking in the Austrian Alps, and caps off his adventures with a week on the Big Nude Boat, a Caribbean cruise full of nudists.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN-10
0802123511
ISBN-13
9780802123510
eBay Product ID (ePID)
214160283

Product Key Features

Author
Mark Haskell Smith
Format
Sewn,Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Travel Writing
Type
Textbook

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
New York
Author Biography
Mark Haskell Smith is the author of five novels, most recently Raw: A Love Story, and the nonfiction book Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Vulture. He lives in Los Angeles.
Date of Publication
16/07/2015
Country of Publication
United States

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