Hitch-hiking Vietnam: A Woman's Solo Journey in an Elusive Land - Hardcover

Muller, Karin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0762702575 ISBN 13: 9780762702572

Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, 1998

Synopsis

Imagine being a twenty-eight-year-old single woman, working your way up the management consulting ladder, with your own expense account a fancy gym membership and salary to spare. Now imagine throwing it all away to hitchhike a country under the iron fist of communism with a dubious grip on the language, accompanied by a colorful and sometimes frightening menagerie of characters, human and otherwise, and carrying an illegal video camera in your backpack. That's exactly what Karin Muller did.At Globe Pequot, we specialize in travel guides, not travelogs. But every once in a while, we come across a tale so wonderful, we just can't walk away. It happened with Size of the Worlds. It's happened again with Hitchhiking Vietnam. What we love about this book is not just the adventure, the culture, the incredible vistas it opens up in our minds' eyes, but the grace, wit, and style with which Karin tells her story. Millions of PBS fans already agree!You will absolutely fall in love with Karin Muller. We did!

About this title

From the Back Cover:

For seven months Karin Muller traversed Vietnam--sometimes by motorbike, often by foot--covering 6,400 miles from the Mekong Delta to the Chinese border. Along the way she survives 52 motorbike breakdowns, 14 arrests, and one awful bout with scurvy. She plants rice with farmers, saves a few leopard cubs from the black market, learns to drive a passenger train, and gets to know a lot of people on her Ho Chi Minh Trail trek. Told honestly and humorously, the culture, pace, land, scents, problems, and beauties of Vietnam are evoked as Muller and Vietnam interact.

Synopsis:

A young American woman tells the story of her adventurous seven month journey exploring Vietnam, from the Mekong Delta to the border of China.

About this edition

• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0762702575
• ISBN 13: 9780762702572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 311