"I am in exactly the right place, thinking, doing and feeling exactly the right things." This was the affirmation that Brad Newsham repeated daily as he cycled alone across the Japanese Alps to Mount Fuji in 1984, free to wander wherever he chose. But back home in San Francisco, life hadn't been so rosy: his wife of ten years had met someone else and wanted a divorce. He tried everything to change her mind, eventually leaving his job and buying a one-way ticket to Asia in the hope that she would miss him. It worked - and then he met someone else on a bus in Hong Kong. One of the first wave of Western backpackers to blaze a trail through China and Russia, Brad Newsham travelled from the neon-lit streets of Tokyo to the epic prairies of Mongolia in a journey that took him across Asia by bicycle, boat, bus and the Trans-Siberian railway.
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From Publishers Weekly
Escaping from a failing marriage, Newsham, a San Franciscan, took off on a trip to the Far East and Russia; this amusing, affecting book presents his impressions of Japan, Hong Kong, China and the Soviet Union. His inability to speak any language but his own turned out to be an obstacle, but not an unsurmountable one. In Japan he stopped in Tokyo, bicycled into the countryside and visited Hiroshima, where the full horror of the atomic bombing became apparent to him. He found China more primitive than he anticipated, with a lot of labor performed at a pre-industrial level and repression still a fact of life. After a journey on the Trans-Siberian railway, he stopped with a chance American acquaintance in Moscow, where the two took an embarrassingly adolescent delight in circumventing authority. Still, his is an unusual and generally winning travel journal.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
When his marriage foundered, Newsham set out on an Oriental soul-searching tour through Japan, China, and Russia. In Japan he climbed Mt. Fuji, trekked through lovely countryside, and visited hyperkinetic Tokyo. Though he spoke no Japanese, he managed to meet a variety of people and glimpsed something of the essence of Japan. In China he witnessed the radical rush toward modernization and communed with fellow explorers. In Russia he sought for the layer of gold beneath the permafrost and confided to his journal, "if the smiling babushka and the amazing ballet are this country's true soul, I want to know that." This wish to reveal the essence of a country reflects the high quality of Newsham's travel record.
- Laurence Hull, Cannon Memorial Lib., Concord, N.C.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Laurence Hull, Cannon Memorial Lib., Concord, N.C.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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