Marco Polo Didnt Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called amp147Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age. For the past ten years Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications as National Geographic Traveler Salon.com and The New York Times Magazine. This book documents his boldest funniest and most revealing journeysamp151from getting stranded without water in the Libyan desert to crashing the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Thailand to learning the secrets of Tantric sex in a dubious Indian ashram.Marco Polo Didnamp8217t Go There is more than just an entertaining journey into fascinating corners of the world. The book is a unique window into travel writing with each chapter containing a amp147commentary trackamp8221amp151endnotes that reveal the ragged edges behind the experience and creation of each tale. Offbeat and insightful this book is an engrossing read for students of travel writing as well as armchair wanderers.