Travels of an Occidental Oriental
Lam, Sau-Fung
The true traveller goes forth aimlessly and uncalculating, only to meet and greet unknown fate, because risk enhances the prepared mind, ' advised my backpacker friend, Matt, repeatedly. With his words in tow I, a British Chinese on-a-shoestring-budget scrimpy backpacker, embarked on a number of separate journeys, spread over a decade. I have written my candid accounts of some of the adventures I had on those journeys. Travel evokes a gamut of...