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Chartered Territory

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Chartered Territory

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Chartered Territory

Length22h 40m

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Ben Zabulis' Chartered Territory is a rich and diverse account of sixteen years spent living and working abroad as an engineer, from the chaos of everyday life in Lagos to the unique Hong Kong, via the conformity of salaryman life in Japan and the wonders of the subcontinent. Personal accounts of climbing Mount Fuji and taking part in dragon boat races go hand in hand with events on a global scale, as the author experiences a Nigerian coup d'etat, the handover of Hong Kong from Great Britain to China, the terrifying SARS outbreak and the opening of Bhutan to more commercial tourism. A unique, light-hearted and warm first-hand account of ordinary and not so ordinary life in foreign cultures will leave the reader hungering after adventure themselves.

Audiobook details

GenreTravel, History

Length22 hrs 40 mins

Narrated bySelect Your Own

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateAug 8, 2012

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Acknowledgements

13ENTER THE DRAGON

2STARTING OUT

14TURNING JAPANESE (AGAIN)

3SURVIVING LAGOS

15A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

4ALL IN A DAY’S WORK

16HANOI ROCKS

5OUT OF THE CITY

17RETURN OF THE DRAGON

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6LOST IN SPACE

18VIEW FROM A TRAIN

7THE FESTIVAL OF SACRIFICE

19THE HANDOVER BLUES

8AN UNLIKELY DRAW

20THE DRAGON’S WELL

9GOING HOME

21LAND OF A MILLION ELEPHANTS

10TURNING JAPANESE

22A DEADLY VISITOR

11DELHI DELIGHTS

23LAND OF THE THUNDER DRAGON

12A PERSONAL HONG KONG

24MAY CONTAIN NUTS

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