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Mostly in Economy Class

Jay Maclean

Publisher: Publishdrive

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Summary

Mostly in Economy Class continues the ups and downs of flights and sights in Europe revealed in—and reveled in—Sometimes in Business Class, but this time in Asia—where adventure, surprise and wonder are around every corner, in  incidents and events from the apparently trivial to the exotic to the erotic.

 


 
Mostly in Economy Class begins with an adventure in China in the early 1980s that may or may not have ended in a dangerous escape to the west; the reader must decide. After the secret world of China, the tales move on to Thailand before and after its temples were overrun by tourists; two faces of Japan in the 1980s; Angkor Wat, Cambodia at a time when Khmer Rouge guns could be heard in the distance, and later after the guns were silenced; South Korea before it emerged as an economic powerhouse, when the country seemed to be almost in a parallel universe; life and poverty in Bangladesh; footpath etiquette in the quaint French quarter of Hanoi; post-Mcdonald’s China; and more. Read on!
Available since: 01/03/2018.

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