Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

Broschiertes Buch

Exceptional Encounters

Enhanced Reality Tales from Southeast Asia

Beschreibung

Can an army of orangutan guerrillas save the Indonesian rainforest? Why is China creating a retirement haven in the South China Sea for rich despots? What happened when the British descendant of the oversexed first White Rajah of Borneo returned to claim his throne? Did Filipino "love sorcerers" help swing a US election? Can an American pilgrim find enlightenment through carnal escapades? How can Asia's first "shaman university" repel an attack by rogue black-magic wizards? And why is Indonesia's Mermaid Queen really angry and not going to take it anymore? Exceptional Encounters takes the seeds of true stories and applies the classic fiction writer's aerobic exercise by asking: What if? These enhanced-reality fabulations draw the reader into tales of just-over-the-rainbow Asian kindness, greed, ambition, passion, and dreams. "Once again, Sochaczewski has pushed the frontier of travel literature in a thought-provoking new direction." -Simon Lyster, chairman, World Land Trust "Sochaczewski at his very best - sharp, witty, energetic, and unafraid to be irreverent. Reminds me of the satire of Catch-22 combined with the insight travel memoirs of Bill Bryson and Mark Twain." -Benedict Allen, BBC presenter, author of Into the Crocodile's Nest "A collection of stories you can savor on many levels. The Asian storytelling of Somerset Maugham, the satire of Jonathan Swift and George Orwell, the reality check of Foreign Affairs, and the dark humor of Roald Dahl." -Valmiki, author of the Ramayana

Autor

Paul Spencer Sochaczewski is a Geneva-based writer and writing coach. While with WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature International), Paul created global campaigns to protect rainforests and biological diversity, and then developed the WWF Faith and Environment program. Paul has lived and worked in more than eighty countries, including two decades in Southeast Asia. He has written more than six hundred by-lined articles for The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Travel and Leisure, CNN Traveller, Reader's Digest, and Geographical. In addition, he has written about the nature of Malaysia 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. And because this is a book of fantasy, Paul is a daring giant-wave surfer (four-time winner of the Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau on Oahu's North Shore), has summited K2 without supplemental oxygen, proven that orang pendek, which he dubbed "snowmen of the jungle," live in the rainforests of Sumatra (he spent three weeks with a troupe of the elusive hominoids, whose existence had never been proven, recording their vocalizations and filming their daily activities), studied teleportation techniques with a Bhutanese Tantra master, and has won three Pulitzer Prizes for his incisive writing and commentary. He has never spoken publicly about his arm-wrestling victory over Arnold Schwarzenegger. George Clooney or Harrison Ford will star in a biopic of Paul's life, now in pre-production. www.sochaczewski.com

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Explorer's Eye Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9782940573301
• ISBN-10: 2940573301
• Artikelnr.: 50812968