title: Contact!: A Book of Encounters
author:  Jan Morris 
description: Recognized as a major contemporary travel writer, Morris, in the course of her profession/avocation, has explored all four corners of the globeno exaggeration. Her latest book is a collection of short takes, each one running only one to three paragraphs in length. In introductory comments, the author, from Wales, observes that in a lifetime of travel and literature, I have written relatively little about people. Her new book, then, makes amends, offering glimpses of people encountered across half a century and forty-odd books. The emphasis on individuals rather than destinations results in a delightfully idiosyncratic kaleidoscope: small portraits rendered in colorful and not always adulatory prose. Visiting the current occupant of Longwood, a distinctive octagon-shaped mansion in Natchez, Louisiana, she is treated to a feast of southern fried chicken. Attending a Paris fashion show, however, was not so positive. She sat among the condescending New York buyers and unbelievably ugly princesses of American fashion journalism. Ouch! --Brad Hooper
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  Great Exploitations
  
  Copyright © 2013 Nicole Williams
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
  either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events of persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
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  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
  [The Beginning](CR%21S4B3C044E51GK98YJ2N2XM98GPCJ_split_003.html#filepos2476)
  
  [The Meet](CR%21S4B3C044E51GK98YJ2N2XM98GPCJ_split_004.html#filepos6423)
  
  [The Greet](CR%21S4B3C044E51GK98YJ2N2XM98GPCJ_split_005.html#filepos44217)
  
  [The Heat](CR%21S4B3C044E51GK98YJ2N2XM98GPCJ_split_006.html#filepos69923)
  
  [The Sheets](CR%21S4B3C044E51GK98YJ2N2XM98GPCJ_split_007.html