The Resource Down and Out in Paradise, Luke Williams (author)
Down and Out in Paradise, Luke Williams (author)
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- Summary
- Journalist Luke Williams travels to Asia to escape hard drugs, high rents and cold nights - he finds adventure, temples, and for the first time - people actually weirder than him: Westerners in Asia. Or are they? Extreme Asia is about Westerners who go to Asia for the things they can't find at home - riches, wives, ladyboys, cheap living and even cheaper drugs, cults, spices, mountains, tropical beaches, 'selfesteem' necklaces, and ascended masters. Luke fully immerses himself in these environments, going far beyond reportage, while aspects of his own history - his dreams, disappointments, urges, and his inherited struggle with mental illness - begin to catch up with him. In this searingly honest book, Luke invites you into his headspace as he travels all over Asia. He spends a month working as a prostitute in Pattaya, eats snake heart in Vietnam, and consults an American medium in Ubud, while tracing the history of Westerners - from the Greeks to Marco Polo and the colonialists - and their extreme experiences in the east. Ultimately, Luke is confronted by what is, and what was, and his own footprint upon it all
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 250 pages
- Note
- Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information)
- Isbn
- 9781760685843
- Label
- Down and Out in Paradise
- Title
- Down and Out in Paradise
- Statement of responsibility
- Luke Williams (author)
- Title variation
- Down & out in paradise
- Subject
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- trueJournalists -- Australia -- Biography
- trueLife stories -- Arts and culture | Writing | Journalists
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- Male prostitution -- Asia
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- Nomads -- Asia -- Biography
- trueProstitutes
- trueTravel Writing -- Asia and the South Pacific
- trueTravel Writing -- Living Abroad
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueWilliams, Luke, (Journalist)
- Williams, Luke, (Journalist) -- Travel -- Asia
- trueAsia -- Description and travel
- trueAustralian
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Journalist Luke Williams travels to Asia to escape hard drugs, high rents and cold nights - he finds adventure, temples, and for the first time - people actually weirder than him: Westerners in Asia. Or are they? Extreme Asia is about Westerners who go to Asia for the things they can't find at home - riches, wives, ladyboys, cheap living and even cheaper drugs, cults, spices, mountains, tropical beaches, 'selfesteem' necklaces, and ascended masters. Luke fully immerses himself in these environments, going far beyond reportage, while aspects of his own history - his dreams, disappointments, urges, and his inherited struggle with mental illness - begin to catch up with him. In this searingly honest book, Luke invites you into his headspace as he travels all over Asia. He spends a month working as a prostitute in Pattaya, eats snake heart in Vietnam, and consults an American medium in Ubud, while tracing the history of Westerners - from the Greeks to Marco Polo and the colonialists - and their extreme experiences in the east. Ultimately, Luke is confronted by what is, and what was, and his own footprint upon it all
- Summary
- In this searingly honest book, Luke invites you into his headspace as he travels all over Asia. He spends a month working as a prostitute in Pattaya, eats snake heart in Vietnam, and consults an American medium in Ubud, while tracing the history of Westerners - from the Greeks to Marco Polo and the colonialists - and their extreme experiences in the east. Ultimately, Luke is confronted by what is, and what was, and his own footprint upon it all.
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10796833
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, Luke
- Dewey number
- B
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Williams, Luke
- Williams, Luke
- Journalists
- Drug addicts
- Mentally ill
- Male prostitutes
- Male prostitution
- Nomads
- Asia
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- east - west - sex - death
- Label
- Down and Out in Paradise, Luke Williams (author)
- Note
- Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000065373345
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 250 pages
- Isbn
- 9781760685843
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1104821235
- Label
- Down and Out in Paradise, Luke Williams (author)
- Note
- Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000065373345
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 250 pages
- Isbn
- 9781760685843
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1104821235
Subject
- trueAsia
- trueAustralian literature
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueDrug addiction
- trueDrug addicts -- Biography
- trueJournalists -- Australia -- Biography
- trueLife stories -- Arts and culture | Writing | Journalists
- Male prostitutes -- Asia -- Biography
- Male prostitution -- Asia
- trueMental illness
- Mentally ill -- Biography
- Nomads -- Asia -- Biography
- trueProstitutes
- trueTravel Writing -- Asia and the South Pacific
- trueTravel Writing -- Living Abroad
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueWilliams, Luke, (Journalist)
- Williams, Luke, (Journalist) -- Travel -- Asia
- trueAsia -- Description and travel
- trueAustralian
Genre
- trueBiography
- trueLife stories
- trueTravel Writing
- trueAustralian literature
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
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