HITCHHIKING VIETNAM: A WOMAN’S SOLO JOURNEY IN AN ELUSIVE LAND
Book ID/图书代码： 05170010B35307
English Summary/英文概要： 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.
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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 凯伦 穆勒，一位曾担任企管顾问的美国女子，因为心中的一个梦想，决然背起行囊，花了七个月的时间，从湄公河三角洲旅行到中越边境的东京山脉，只为了认识越南的的真实面貌，寻找那些不被西方资本主义沾染的纯净之地。
在长达6400英里的旅程中，凯伦搭过各式各样的便车，骑过中国制造的改装脚踏车、日本制的古典摩托车，多数时间徒步旅行。沿途她的摩托车抛锚多达52次，被逮捕过14次，甚至患上可怕的败血症。但越南之旅并非全然不和善，一位诚实无欺的越南导游与她真诚相待；她和友人从猖獗的动物黑市中合力拯救了一直老鹰、几只小豹子和长臂猿；她学习驾驶旅客列车；在胡志明小道跋涉时又结交了许多朋友。
《顺风车游越南》是凯伦只身闯荡越南，亲炙东方文化的体验之旅，字字句句均见一位西方女子毫不掩饰的真情与关怀。(RH)
Awards/获奖情况：天生的旅游文学作家---波士顿环球报
极具冒险精神的年轻女子…她的好奇与大胆，带领众多只能借由阅读遨游世界各地的读者一起旅行”---纽约时报
About the Author/作者介绍： Karin Muller (born June 8, 1965) is a Swiss-born author, filmmaker, photographer, and adventurer. Muller set out in the 1990s to travel the world’s historic highways. She is an expert lecturer on Japan for the National Geographic Society, has been featured on National Public Radio and Minnesota Public Radio’s Marketplace, and her writing appears in National Geographic and Traveler magazines.Her first expedition took her to the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Vietnam, which enabled her to produce a PBS television special, Hitchhiking Vietnam, and a companion book by Globe Pequot Press of the same name.
凯伦 穆勒出生于瑞士，毕业于威廉学院，成长过程中迁居多次，曾在美国、加勒比海地区、澳洲居住。取得经济学学位之后，凯伦参加和平工作队，在菲律宾呆过两年，擅长五种语言，曾担任企业经管顾问，也曾拥有自己的小型公司。这些经历让她明白自己更适合背起行囊游走天涯。现在她撰写、拍摄关于旅行的种种，并架设网站，闲暇之余，她是滑翔翼的高手、柔道教练。先前的作品包括：《梦境》(Dreams)；《全球温室效应》(Global Warming)；《潮汐中的城堡》(Castles in the Tide)。
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