A unique collection of brief encounters and adventures from working in seventy countries - a kaleidoscope of landscapes, sounds, smells, politics, humor, dialogue and, above all, people.
This is a warts-and-all account of the author's travels, with disasters and miseries alongside the high points. He takes you to danger zones, to wars of startling savagery in Sierra Leone, Pakistan and Angola, to coups and dubious elections. He narrowly avoids death in India, Mexico and Nigeria. In other episodes he simply savors the pleasures of traveling alone. As the author says, 'Nothing sharpens the understanding more than seeing things done ten different ways in ten different countries.'
1. Dubai
2. The Taj Mahal Intercontinental, Mumbai
3. Eritrea
4. Nigeria
5. Hong Kong
6. South Africa
7. China
8. Memories of Tasmania
9. Belize
10. West Pakistan
11. Sunset in Croatia
12. Moscow in 1971
13. Angola
14. Albania
15. Georgia
16. Russia in the 1990s
17. Bangladesh
18. Mexico
19. Mumbai
20. Night Flight
21. Hash House Harriers
22. The Philippines
23. Malaysia
24. Turkmenistan
25. Java
26. South Korea in 1972
27. The Real Ind ia
28. Another Tropical Paradise
29. South Korea in 1985
30. Pakistan after the 2008 Election
31. Azerbaijan
32. Sierra Leone
33. Kazakhstan 1
34. Egypt
35. The People’s Power Revolution, Manila
36. Another Twenty Hour Night
37. Sri Lanka
38. A Good Man in Manila
39. Romania
40. Estonia
41. Kazakhstan 2
42. Latvia
43. Mozambique
Overview
A unique collection of brief encounters and adventures from working in seventy countries - a kaleidoscope of landscapes, sounds, smells, politics, humor, dialogue and, above all, people.
This is a warts-and-all account of the author's travels, with disasters and miseries alongside the high points. He takes you to danger zones, to wars of startling savagery in Sierra Leone, Pakistan and Angola, to coups and dubious elections. He narrowly avoids death in India, Mexico and ...