About This is China… and Everywhere Else: The Complete Misadventures
After leaving his job in the UK, journalist Alex Coverdale spent over a decade working as an English teacher in China. During that time he lived in Beijing, Changsha, Xiangtan, and Guangzhou, and travelled the length and breadth of the country. He saw things he never thought he would see, and did things he never thought he would do, from digging for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert to eating snakes in Hunan Province, finding himself in numerous awkward and often hilarious situations along the way.
He had a ringside seat as China went through a succession of seismic changes to become the world’s latest superpower, and in so doing developed a deep affinity with the country and its people, falling under the spell of its vibrant culture, colourful history, and infectious energy. Even the heavy handed ways of the Chinese government couldn’t dampen his enthusiasm.
Much.
His adventures, or misadventures, also took him to Thailand, England, France, Spain, Russia, Azerbaijan, Wales, Switzerland, and a host of other places all over the globe in what became a gritty, moving story of discovery and redemption.
Now, for the first time, you can read the complete Misadventures in the Middle Kingdom (and everywhere else), reformatted, and revitalised, with a new introduction, and four previously unpublished chapters bringing the story right up to date, and possibly to a fitting conclusion.
Part memoir, part travelogue, and part confessional, you will never read another book like this.
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Author Bio:
Alex Coverdale is a UK-based freelance journalist, editor and novelist. His work has appeared in over 100 magazines, ezines and anthologies worldwide and he has held desk positions at several leading magazines ranging from Staff Writer to Associate Editor. He has travelled extensively, spending over a decade in China and documenting life as he goes. He uses a pseudonym when he writes in order to protect the guilty, as well as the innocent. And also because he doesn’t want his friends and family to know what he really gets up to when he travels. His books have been both traditionally and independently published, several of which becoming #1 Amazon bestsellers.