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Bugis Nights

Chris Stowers

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English
Earnshaw Books Ltd
11 July 2023
Travel the trade winds from far east Indonesia to the Lion City aboard a Bugis spice ship named God Bless. A young English backpacker runs into a bunch of French adventurers on a remote Indonesian island and gets swept up in their madcap scheme to buy a traditional wooden sailing ship from a people once famed as pirates-the Bugis-and sail it to distant Singapore.

Bugis Nights harks back to a Golden Age of travel, and a young man's quest for adventure. Be magically transported between the sun-drenched islands and stormy crests of the Java Sea, the high roads of the Himalayas, and the promise of love, fostered in a Tibetan sandstorm.
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Imprint:   Earnshaw Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   222g
ISBN:   9789888769995
ISBN 10:   9888769995
Pages:   208
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Bugis Nights

""What a tale... shades of Joseph Conrad!"" - Don Shapiro, former TIME correspondent ""I devoured it in one sitting... a page turner that makes one wonder how the hell did we as youngsters throw caution to the wind and trust our lives to some very slender ropes or other bindings."" - Keith Loveard, author 'SUHARTO Indonesia's Last Sultan' ""Truly enjoyable. Makes me wish I could be on the adventure trail once again."" - Alberto Buzzola, Head of Photography, RHYTHMS magazine ""It swept me up and away... I love the pace and the rhythm, and the spare but oh-so-vivid description."" - Deborah Nock, former editor of MUHIBAH, Royal Brunei Airlines Inflight magazine ""This travel book reads like the mother of all backpackers' tall tales. Photojournalist Chris Stowers returns to the raw, lived feel of those glorious days of falling off the map in Asia ... the story races ahead like a high-octane road novel."" - TAIPEI TIMES ""If I could take only one book to read on the beach this summer, 'Bugis Nights' would be that book. The descriptions leap from its pages like vivid color photographs."" - Uval Daniel ""Bugis Nights tracks a dramatic journey by photographer Chris Stowers - each risky step, ride, and voyage. You can almost say he's seen it all. Then he survived to write this book for us."" - Ralph Jennings, South China Morning Post ""Many of us look back with longing to journeys made in our twenties, but few can remember all the details like Stowers has."" - Frank Beyer, ASIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS


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