AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 YEARS
- ISBN-10
- 1496925386
- ISBN-13
- 9781496925381
- Series
- Around the World in 80 Years
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 712
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-07-24
- Publisher
- Author House
- Author
- JAY J. STEMMER
Description
" Your piece on white water rafting is better than the one I just bought. You will have no trouble selling it to another newspaper." Editor, Chicago Tribune " I just bought an article similar to the one you just sent. I like your pictures better and intend to use them with the other piece." Editor, St. Petersburg Times. " In all my years of publishing travel articles, this is the first one I've ever seen on Sarah Island." Editor, International Travel News Magazine. It was published. After submitting an article on China, the response was, " We have a correspondent in China sending us all we need for that Country." Editor, Chicago Tribune. Two years later they published my article on The Tidal Wave in China. He has looked a lethal Komodo Dragon in the eye from 3 feet, in the wild Rode an elephant through the Golden Triangle opium fields Walked among the dead in the Cambodian "killing fields" White Water rafted the most dangerous rivers on three Continents Walked the walls of the Hanoi Hilton Strolled the land mined areas of Siem Reap Ignited rockets into a Buddhist Monastery Engaged in Black Market currency in Burma Stared down deadly snakes in the Temple of the Pit Vipers Chewed coco leaves in Bolivia Climbed to Machu Pichu after an avalanche closed the road Lost money at a casino in Paraguay but won at a casino in Macao Been on the world's deepest lake - Baikal in Siberia Cruised the Amazon on a river boat Lived among the San Blas Indians in Panama Been to the top of the Rock of Gibralter Swam at the lowest point on land, the Dead Sea Took a picture of the World's tallest falls (Angel Falls), in the middle of the Amazon
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