The Curse of Lono

By Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

In The Curse of Lono, first published in 1983, Hunter S. Thompson travels to Hawaii to cover the Honolulu Marathon for Running magazine and stays on through a stormy winter on the Kona coast. His gonzo account blends the race, a disastrous deep-sea fishing expedition and his growing conviction that he is the reincarnation of the Hawaiian god Lono, interleaved with passages from accounts of Captain James Cook's voyages and illustrated throughout by Ralph Steadman.

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