ASIN: B00J5XFNV4
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 316
Twenty-six year old Elliot is bored with life in London and decides to test the assertion that 'the world is your oyster', heading East to travel alone for an indefinite period. Ostensibly his aim is to reach Australia from London without flying, but secretly he hopes to cure a deep dissatisfaction by finding love or a sense of purpose he does not feel at home.A passionate love affair with a Russian emigre almost halts his trip prematurely, but Elliot cannot resist the call of the open road and leaves, falling in with a multinational gang of fellow backpackers and entering a world of carefree pleasure that often alienates them from the real world they have come to see.A one-night stand in China for the first time suggests the possibilities of his new-found freedom, setting Elliot on a self-destructive course that will eventually find him holed up in Hong Kong with a Kenyan prostitute ...
