ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

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Writer and author Harold Stephens takes the road less traveled in exotic foreign lands. He is one person who has lived his dream of exploring the world`s most remote corners -- in search of adventure for adventure`s sake, experiencing life on his own terms, and writing about it. This wonderful writer shares his exciting experiences with his readers in more than two-dozen travel and adventure books, novels, biographies and in other media as television and video scripts. This includes an historical 10-hour TV script on King Narai of Siam.

A dedicated writer of thousands of travel articles as well as an explorer and adventurer, Harold Stephens traveled deep into Bhutan, motored across Tibet, and followed along the Great Wall of China in a Jeep, and rafted down the Amazon. He trained with a Sir Edmund Hillary team in New Zealand and climbed the Matterhorn in Switzerland and Popocatapetl in Mexico.

In the mid-sixties, Stephens motored around the world by Jeep for a record-breaking 42,252 miles, through monsoon rains and across blazing deserts, over nearly impassable roads through hostile countries with hostile and sometimes uncivilized people, facing untold dangers, disease and hunger. Along the way, he met some very remarkable people and found romance and love in the strangest places.
In this book we can find the description of a group of interesting characters, who have in common that they found their own realization, in the 50s and 60s, in places far from their native country, mostly in Southeast Asia. We can find the story of Jim Thompson, who sold Thai silk all over the world. One of the characters is a Russian who in the 1950s ran a hotel in Kathmandu with his Swedish wife: these two characters were inserted, fictionalized, in The mountain is young by Han Suyin. Then there are: a false-Moroccan belly dancer (actually from California), with whom the author had a love affair; a Bali painter; an American sumo wrestler, etc. The stories are really intriguing and there is a set of photos.

There are many references to the lost worlds of Conrad, Kipling, Somerset Maugham: the author realizes that the world he describes is dissolving.

There also exists a new edition of this book, accompanied by a part where the author tells what happened next to these characters, I would like to read it.
Reprinted in 2003 with the title `The Strange Disappearance of Jim Thompson`: