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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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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781789126686 ● Editura Eschenburg Press ● Publicat 2018 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 7096739 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM

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