William A. Stoever

Broschiertes Buch

Africa, Japan and Everywhere in Between

ethiopia.sudan.egypt.israel.iraq.iran.afghanistan.pakistan.india.nepal.srilanka.singapore.thailand. laos.cambodia.vietnamwar.philippines.HK.japan.USSR.germany

Beschreibung

The author's fearless (foolhardy?) adventures during an eighteen-month odyssey from East Africa through the Middle East to South and East Asia. He hitchhiked across the desert with a Sudanese truck driver, studied Arabic in a Cairo mosque, swam across the Suez Canal, picked apples on an Israeli kibbutz, tried out as a dancer in a Pakistani film studio, rode a thousand free miles on trains in India, smoked ganja in Nepal, hitched rides on U.S.A.F. planes and helicopters at the Vietnam War, fell in love with a girl in Japan, rode across the U.S.S.R. on the Trans-Siberian Railway in the days of communism, and traded currencies on black markets in Egypt, India, Vietnam, U.S.S.R. and other countries. This follows his first book, Hitchhike the World, which covered Europe and southern Africa.

Autor

Bill Stoever has been an adventure traveler his whole life, covering some 50,000 miles by hitchhiking. He has visited 106 countries. During a student summer in Europe he worked in work camps in Britain and East Germany. He was imprisoned by the East German secret police at the time the Berlin Wall was first constructed. After graduating from college he went to Africa to become a teacher. He taught in Uganda and Tanzania for two and a half years, hitchhiking during his vacations in Kenya, Zanzibar, Rhodesia, South Africa, Congo (Kinshasa), Madagascar, Somalia and Ethiopia. When his teaching contract was completed, he embarked on a hitchhiking odyssey that took him through the Middle East to the countries of South and East Asia. He hitched rides on military planes and visited Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He returned home via the Philippines, Japan and the Trans-Siberian Railway. After returning to the United States he earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an MBA and Ph.D. from New York University Graduate School of Business. He made his career as a professor of international management and law at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Princeton University, National University of Singapore and Seton Hall University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781716611131
• ISBN-10: 171661113X
• Artikelnr.: 60600522