Travels (book)
Travels is a nonfiction book by Michael Crichton that details how he abandoned his medical education at Harvard Medical School, moved to Los Angeles, and began his professional writing career with The Great Train Robbery. After this book became a movie starring Sean Connery, Crichton undertook a variety of international adventures and experimented with mysticism, including out-of-body experiences, astral projection, and fortune-telling. It is his fourth, final, and most famous non-fiction book.Contents
- Medical Days
- Travels
- Sex and Death in L.A.
- Psychiatry
- Bangkok
- Bonaire
- Pahang
- An Elephant Attacks
- Kilimanjaro
- Pyramid of the Magicians
- My Father's Death
- Ireland
- London Psychics
- Baltistan
- Shangri-La
- Sharks
- Gorillas
- An Extinct Turtle
- Cactus Teachings
- Jamaica
- A Human Light Show
- They
- Seeing Headhunters
- Life on the Astral Plane
- New Guinea
- Spoon Bending
- Seeing Auras
- An Entity
- Direct Experience
- Postscript: Skeptics at Caltech
