Word: buchta
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...almost impossible to duplicate by private car. Conventional accommodations are expensive or nonexistent at most stopovers on Höltl's 7,000-mile Indian expedition or his 8,000-mile Peru-to-Patagonia haul. "We go to the interior, where the ordinary people live," says Jan Buchta, a veteran Rotel guide, who likes to call the tours "study trips. In Africa, for example, we not only show guests Nairobi and Mombasa but also the hinterland of Kenya...
...FILE ON STANLEY PATTON BUCHTA by Irvin Faust. 274 pages. Random House...
Good-looking, personable Stanley Patton Buchta, the lead in Irvin Faust's second novel, practices a special kind of fantasy. He believes in little except himself. Unfortunately, that self is mainly composed of pop-culture fragments, miscellaneous emotions and loose social ties. A New York City policeman who was raised in California and saw combat with the Army in Viet Nam, Stanley is an American tumbleweed of no discernible ethnic background. He is a composite of what Author Faust apparently takes to be typical urban America-rootless, tough, guiltlessly selfish and easily moved by chance winds...