Offering a fresh and often hilarious perspective, this account chronicles journalist Garry Marchant’s travels around Asia during a 30-year period. Covering familiar and lesser-known points in the East, this detailed guide reflects upon the similarities and differences between various Asian locales and demonstrates how the region has evolved in recent decades. Written by a curious and well-seasoned traveler, this remarkable record is filled with invaluable information as well as amusing anecdotes.
“Oh, to be Garry Marchant, wandering around Asia for three decades, absorbing experiences from Hokkaido baths to the top of Mt Kinabalu. Life and death, feasts and fetishes. If you can’t do it, read it.” —Philip Bowring, former editor,Far Eastern Economic Review
This long-overdue collection spans several decades and includes a wealth of material on Asia. —Susan Kurosawa,Australian
Garry Marchantis a freelance writer whose work has appeared in several guidebooks and anthologies, includingAway From Home: Canadian Writers in Exotic PlacesandOur American Cousins.