Dimensions
145 x 223 x 21mm
Male Rites of Passage in the Lousy Modern World.
Further adventures in extreme (and not so extreme) sports, from the bestselling author of 'Angry White Pyjamas'.
Having learnt Aikido with the Tokyo riot police ('Angry White Pyjamas'), hunted for the world's longest snake in the jungles of the Far East ('Big Snake'), Robert Twigger now turns his attention to other traditionally male pursuits and pastimes (some of which are fairly close to home, some of which are more extreme), and looks at the questions these raise about masculinity and the role of man in modern society.
'Being A Man' includes Twigger behind the scenes, participating in, and writing on, the informal rules and thrill seeking of solo climbing, bullfighting in Spain, the "illicit pleasure of buying my first gun", the rules of survival with a tribe of Naga headhunters, and on being a bodyguard in Mexico. He also looks at why men feel the urge to escape in this way, and why, even in mundane everyday life, modern man is trapped in an endless loop of having to prove himself a man.
