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Author : Vagabond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1034690504
Author : Chet Nairene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798745977275
"ENDLESSLY ENTERTAINING! He is 'Dash in a Tropical Wonderland' in this offbeat adventure with equally quirky characters. A fun journey -- don't miss it!" -- James Roby, The UrbanKnights Series PACIFIC DASH is the offbeat and colorful new novel following the vagabond life journey of Dashiell Bonaventure, a young American who roams Asia for decades to pursue thrills and truth. This is a vivid work of gaudy fiction that will transport readers to foreign worlds of exotic delight, satisfying fans of armchair global travel, adventure fiction and romance, alike. In 1968, a job transfer catapults the family of young Dashiell Bonaventure across the globe, from the Illinois cornfields to a scintillating, fresh new world in far-flung Hong Kong. Though the innocent teen believes his expatriate high school experience will just be temporary, he is mistaken. For thus begins Dash's lifelong odyssey drifting between continents and crisscrossing Asia in constant pursuit of adventure and self-discovery. For decades, he wanders through Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Thailand, Myanmar and more. Eccentric and flamboyant personalities roll through his unplanned life while Dash roams the jungles, beaches, and cities of the Far East, living out of a backpack and at other times flying in private jets. Along the way, Dash falls desperately in love but also makes bitter enemies. He saves lives while also nearly losing his own. He backpacks and motorcycles across Indonesia, works in an illegal offshore casino in the Straits of Malacca and later becomes enormously rich in the seedy enclave of Macau as a casino VIP junket pioneer. PACIFIC DASH is the next best thing to your own journey down the colorful back alleys of Asia. Sparkling with anecdotes and color, it charms readers by parachuting them into festivals, culture, and vice dens of the Far East. The story unwinds at a furious pace, truly a mad dash: From a sudden disaster at international high school in cosmopolitan Hong Kong ... to fantasy years jetting around the globe as collegiate protégé to the world's reigning literary superstar ... From a stunning and dreamlike backpacking idyll through culture-lush Indonesia ... to his unplanned decade aboard a sleazy floating casino in the Straits of Malacca ... finally to Dash's stunning rise to power as the wealthiest Westerner in Asia and king of the casino business across all of Greater China. With PACIFIC DASH, readers experience life amongst Asia's elite, the young princesses and princelings at the international high school in 1960s Hong Kong. They hang out with Aussie surfer dudes in Bali and go tromping down the 1970s hippie trail to Afghanistan, Nepal and beyond. They thrill to illegal high-stakes baccarat tables on the high seas and gorge on spicy foods eaten by hand off banana leaves. And they fall in love with the gorgeous Fiona Lo Ting-Ting while making friends with intriguing characters like Snakehead Goh, PY (Little Fatty) Lee, Chickie Schmidt and Jackson Toh. This karma-laced tale is akin to a mash-up between a Paul Theroux travel narrative and Alex Garland's 'The Beach' with a little Forrest Gump tossed in, too -- the latter because amazing, truly unexpected adventures just keep happening to good old Dash. PACIFIC DASH is the newest offering from BANANA LEAF BOOKS, a new imprint specializing in the adventures of young Westerners adrift in in the East.
Author : Ralph Keeler
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066230869
"Vagabond Adventures" is a travel memoir written by Ralph Keeler. It is an account of his years of travelling the world as a vagabond, exploring the many cultures and landscapes he encounters along the way. In this book, the author also recounts his adventures hitchhiking across Europe, backpacking through Asia, and traversing the deserts of Australia.
Author : Edmund Candler
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1021910066
This captivating memoir recounts the adventures of Edmund Candler, a British journalist who travels across Asia in the early 20th century. From the bustling streets of Shanghai to the remote villages of India, Candler encounters a wide range of people and cultures, and shares his insights with wit and charm. Whether observing the rituals of Buddhist monks, escaping bandits in Persia, or enjoying the hospitality of local tribes, this book is a testament to the enduring appeal of travel and discovery. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Mik Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1631321404
The author and his new German wife packed their backpacks and, with no money, on a beautiful summer day, set out on the road with no goal or purpose and with little knowledge of what lie ahead. Together they blazed a trail from Europe to India that a few years later would become known as The Hippie Trail. Hitch-hiking from Frankfurt, through Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Rangoon, Bangkok, Malaysia, Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, they led a life filled with meeting incredible people, experiencing strange cultures, humorous incidents, dangerous adventures, and desperate circumstances, aimlessly wandering on the road and in the streets of Europe and Asia until it all led back to that search for meaning, leading to a desperate climax in the deserts of Rajasthan.
Author : Richard Regan
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1980845727
The eve of World War 2. Hitler is finalising his plans for the conquest of Europe and flexing his muscles in Spain, while the Japanese are poised to invade China, and eyeing off the resources of the East Indies and Indochina to fuel their war machine. Dangerous times, but there are still profits to be made by men like hard-bitten Skipper Bill Rowden and his vagabond crew, as they work their aging tramp steamer around the treacherous waters of the Far East. Uncharted reefs, tropical storms, corrupt officials, smuggling and piracy are all in a day's work to Rowden and his crew, which includes an embittered hard drinking aristocrat, a knife wielding Welshman and a hot-headed, hard-fisted Australian. On what begins as a routine voyage to New Guinea, Rowden discovers an illegal shipment of arms concealed in his ship, setting off a chain of increasingly dangerous events that drag him unwittingly into the centre of Nazi, Soviet and British attempts to gain the upper hand, before war finally breaks out. Entangled with Chinese warlords, triads and a beautiful Russian adventuress, Rowden narrowly escapes Shanghai before the bombs start to fall, but his enemies are closing in. Deep in the Pacific, in a remote coral fringed lagoon, Rowden and his crew face a violent and explosive confrontation, with little more than fists and wits to keep them alive. "Oriental Vagabonds is the rollicking, thrill-a-minute adventure story of courageous-but-flawed tramp steamer Captain William "Bill" Rowden and the rag-tag crew of the Oriental Venture as they ply their often-dodgy cargo trade through the dangerous and lawless Asia Pacific region in the looming shadow of World War II. Featuring wonderfully chiselled characters you'll remember for a lifetime and an edgy, twisted plot, it's a ripper swashbuckling adventure on the high seas - so, gulp down those seasick pills and buckle in for an exhilarating ride." PETER RAMSHAW, Founder and CEO of eText Press Publishing and the author of "Shepherd's Crook" (aka Pistol) and "Parallax" (writing as Ric Shaw).
Author : Robert M. Farnsworth
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826210600
Beginning with Snow's youthful ambition to travel the globe and concluding with his notable, if unobtrusive, role in the reestablishment of diplomatic ties between America and China, Farnsworth weaves a spellbinding narrative. Snow's adventure in Asia began in Yokohama, where he landed as a stowaway from Hawaii. Then, just steps ahead of Japanese port police, he made his way to China, where he soon empathized with the suffering of the Chinese people and became curious about the role Communism might play in the rebellion against colonialism. As he traveled throughout the continent during the next thirteen years, Snow established contacts with many important people and won extraordinary personal access to the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. In 1936 he became the first Western journalist to visit the Chinese Red forces and report on a detailed interview with Mao Tse-tung after the completion of the epic Long March.
Author : Ruby Lal
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300251272
A captivating biography of one of the world's greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir "Finally, a serious consideration of Gulbadan's achievement.'"--Kirkus Reviews Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived. Following a migratory childhood that spanned Kabul and north India, Gulbadan spent her middle years in a walled harem established by her nephew Akbar to showcase his authority as the Great Emperor. Gulbadan longed for the exuberant itinerant lifestyle she'd known. With Akbar's blessing, she led an unprecedented sailing and overland voyage and guided harem women on an extended pilgrimage in Arabia. Amid increasing political tensions, the women's "un-Islamic" behavior forced their return, lengthened by a dramatic shipwreck in the Red Sea. Gulbadan wrote a book upon her return, the only extant work of prose by a woman of the age. A portion of it is missing, either lost to history or redacted by officials who did not want the princess to have her say. Vagabond Princess contemplates the story of the missing pages and breathes new life into a daring historical figure. It offers a portal to a richly complex world, rife with movement and migration, where women's conviviality, adventure, and autonomies shine through.
Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Biography
ISBN : NYPL:33433069268187
Author : meLê yamomo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319691763
This book examines the intersection between sound and modernity in dramatic and musical performance in Manila and the Asia-Pacific between 1869 and 1948. During this period, tolerant political regimes resulted in the globalization of capitalist relations and the improvement of transcontinental travel and worldwide communication. This allowed modern modes of theatre and music consumption to instigate the uniformization of cultural products and processes, while simultaneously fragmenting societies into distinct identities, institutions, and nascent nation-states. Taking the performing bodies of migrant musicians as the locus of sound, this book argues that the global movement of acoustic modernities was replicated and diversified through its multiple subjectivities within empire, nation, and individual agencies. It traces the arrival of European travelling music and theatre companies in Asia which re-casted listening into an act of modern cultural consumption, and follows the migration of Manila musicians as they engaged in the modernization project of the neighboring Asian cities.
Author : Robert Elias
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595585288
Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the mercy of broader forces shaping our society and the globe? The Empire Strikes Out gives us the sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the export of “the American way.” From the Civil War to George W. Bush and the Iraq War, we see baseball's role in developing the American empire, first at home and then beyond our shores. And from Albert Spalding and baseball's first World Tour to Bud Selig and the World Baseball Classic, we witness the globalization of America's national pastime and baseball's role in spreading the American dream. Besides describing baseball's frequent and often surprising connections to America's presence around the world, Elias assesses the effects of this relationship both on our foreign policies and on the sport itself and asks whether baseball can play a positive role or rather only reinforce America's dominance around the globe. Like Franklin Foer in How Soccer Explains the World, Elias is driven by compelling stories, unusual events, and unique individuals. His seamless integration of original research and compelling analysis makes this a baseball book that's about more than just sports.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : American literature
ISBN : CHI:20038819
Author : University of Hawaii at Manoa. Library. Pacific Collection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Oceania
ISBN : UCSC:32106015463620
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1536 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Travel
ISBN : CORNELL:31924059744486
Author : Thomas Crane Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UCAL:$C33072