Konark Publishers Almost Intrepid

About the Book: Almost Intrepid The sight of a female dragon guarding her eggs was mesmerizing. It made me ignore the Rangers warning and pushed me closer to the beast for a perfect close-up. There was no way to establish whether the dragon mama-to-be was camera friendly or not till I was within biting distance from her. Witty, humorous, self-deprecating, and sometimes bumbling andincoherent, Almost Intrepid takes you on a ride through the mind ofa first-time female traveller with a dream, a backpack, and verylittle else and whose only reason to start was to beat a quarterlife crisis. But, what begins as an awkward attempt to flee themundane life of a journalist turns into a globe-trottingmission-from climbing mountains in Tanzania, jungle treks in PapuaNew Guinea, Komodo chasing in Indonesia, to ill-fated sea rides inCambodia with episodes of shoe-flinging at determined touts in thebazaars of Egypt and nearly getting hitched with a tattooed Africanman. The lawyer-turned journalis tturned writer befriends everystranger she meets, finds joy in cheap BandBs, shares intoxicants(of all kinds) with strangers and dreams of scaling the Everestsomeday. About the Author: Anjaly Thomas Anjaly Thomas qualified as a lawyer, but picked up thejournalistic pen as her mythical sword soon after. When that failedto inspire, she exchanged journalistic monotony for the beauty ofopen spaces. Today, she manages to balance what she calls the "Business ofPassion"-writing and travelling. She lives in the UAE, is also a Lonely Planet writer, and writesfor various newspapers and magazines, apart from holding a regularday job for that extra something to help aid her impulsivetravels. Almost Intrepid is her first book in which she chronicles herlifes journeys, reminisces on lessons learnt and accepts the wisdomof prejudices shed along the (oft) un-travelled path! She doesnt claim to be an expert on traditions, cultures, history or geograpzy of the places she travels to, and hates beingasked t