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Harry L. Foster
Beachcomber in the Orient [EPUB ebook]

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Journalist, storyteller, and ragtime piano player Harry L. Foster is back!From a mugging in a Vietnamese opium den to hopping a freight train down the Malay Peninsula to a waterfront bar in Singapore to a sing-song theater in China, Foster never fails to show the squalid side of life in a glorious adventure to the wild countries of Southeast Asia during the Roaring 1920s.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781789126686 ● Publisher Eschenburg Press ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 7096739 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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