Naked at lunch: a reluctant nudist's adventures in the clothing-optional world

In The Great Wandering Tradition Of Bill Bryson, Louis Theroux And Jon Ronson, Journalist Mark Haskell Smith Strips Down The World Of Social Nudism In A Hilarious, Wildly Entertaining And Profoundly Enlightening Book About Those Who Renounce Clothing And Embrace What Lies Beneath. Naked At Lunch Is One Man's Cracklingly Witty, Compellingly Odd And Oddly Life-affirming Journey Into The Subculture Of Nudism. Celebrated Journalist Mark Haskell Smith Meets, And Indeed Joins, Those Shucking Off Social Conventions By Shucking Off Their Clothes - He Hikes Bareback In The Alps With A Naked Rambler's Society, He Buys Baguettes In The Buff In A French Resort And He Meets The Marginally Dressed Mayor Of A Spanish Clothes-optional Municipality. But This Is Not Just A Book Of Naked Adventures And Sun-ripened Genitals. It Is A Study Of 20th-century Western Cultural And Social Mores; A Record Of Radical History And Politics Practised By Those Made Radical By Their Refusal To Get Dressed; A Heartfelt Celebration Of The Simple Joys Of Being Alive; And A Full-blooded War Cry For Reclaiming Pride In Our Bodies And Rejecting Those Who Would Make Us Ashamed.