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In the early 1920's American journalist Harry L. Foster embarked on a voyage to Asia with the intention of exploring it in a comfortable and leisurely manner. After being mugged in a Saigon opium den, however, the journey turned out to be anything but.
What followed was a rollicking adventure that essentially turned Foster into a "proto-backpacker". For him, seeing Asia meant riding freight trains, staying in hovels, and paying his way by working as a honky-tonk pianist in bars for colonial sailors, layabouts and chancers.
In the uproarious book that resulted, Foster's eye for detail and pithy style brings to life a worldoften still recognisable to the modern travellerthat would soon be transformed by war, decolonisation and economic boom.
This annotated edition includes all the original illustrations, a new introduction, a map, and detailed notes. A limited number of changes have also been made to correct some eccentric punctuation, typos and odd spellings in the text of the first edition.
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