What's the attraction of coffee that's been digested by a civet? Can 200-million-year-old fossilized freshwater shark dung bring you good luck? Why do boys like to make things go bang - hey, lemme try the AK-47!? Why is the belching and slovenly widow of Laos's first president so possessive about the animal she considers her white elephant? How did Vietnam's last elephant hunter, at the age of 90, get a lucrative sponsorship deal for a tonic that makes men more powerful? Did a love potion help a Filipino politician become governor? And what role did an absurdly rich, secretive American…mehr
What's the attraction of coffee that's been digested by a civet? Can 200-million-year-old fossilized freshwater shark dung bring you good luck? Why do boys like to make things go bang - hey, lemme try the AK-47!? Why is the belching and slovenly widow of Laos's first president so possessive about the animal she considers her white elephant? How did Vietnam's last elephant hunter, at the age of 90, get a lucrative sponsorship deal for a tonic that makes men more powerful? Did a love potion help a Filipino politician become governor? And what role did an absurdly rich, secretive American businessman (who enjoyed deflowering virgins) have in creating Vietnam's golf boom? This is Southeast Asia as you've probably never imagined, full of memorable people, startling happenings, and unexpected moments of humanity and introspection, giddiness and solemnity, avarice and ambition.
Paul Spencer Sochaczewski is an award-winning Geneva, Switzerland-based writer and writing coach. While at WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature International), Paul created global public awareness campaigns to protect rainforests and biological diversity, then later developed the WWF Faith and Environment program. Paul has lived and worked in more than 80 countries, including two decades in Southeast Asia. He has written more than 600 bylined articles on conservation, wildlife, orangutan intelligence, and social change for The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Travel + Leisure, CNN Traveller, Reader's Digest, and the Royal Geographical Society magazine Geographical. He has written 14 books on subjects ranging from golf (Distant Greens) and speaking with dead people (Dead, But Still Kicking) to a handbook on how to write your personal story (Share Your Journey). In addition, he has written about the nature of Borneo in Malaysia: Heart of Southeast Asia; served on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia; and was project initiator for Tanah Air: Celebrating Indonesia's Biodiversity. He spent 40 years following the Southeast Asian trail of Victorian British naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace, who developed the Theory of Natural Selection and got usurped by Charles Darwin. For more information, visit Paul's website (www.sochaczewski.com) or his Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Spencer_Sochaczewski).
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