Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia, by Frank Kusy
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In 1989, Frank Kusy found himself the unwilling love pawn of a booted and bodiced Boadicea on a Harley low rider. Then he fell in love with someone else, and it got a lot worse. Trapped in a small bedsit in London, with strange foreign curses coming through the door, he jumped at the chance to write a travel book on South East Asia. There followed the craziest year of his life: he got married in a Balinese village, attacked by giant spiders in Australia, and bombed on the Cambodian border. Not to mention starting a new business in India, nearly killing the King of Thailand and receiving the death penalty in Malaysia.
Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia, by Frank Kusy- Amazon Sales Rank: #6280272 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .47" w x 5.25" l, .48 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 206 pages
About the Author FRANK KUSY is a professional travel writer with nearly thirty years experience in the field. He has written guides to India, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Of this, his first work, the travelogue Kevin and I in India (1986), the Mail on Sunday wrote: 'This book rings so true of India that most of us will be glad we don't have to go there ourselves.' Born in England (of Polish-Hungarian parents), Frank left Cardiff University for a career in journalism and worked for a while at the Financial Times. India is his first love, the only country he knows which improves on repeated viewings. He still visits for business and for pleasure at least once a year. He lives in Surrey, England, with his wife Andrea (aka 'Madge') and his little cat Sparky. NOTE: Frank is also author of Rupee Millionaires (the sequel to Kevin and I) and two cat books for children - Ginger the Gangster Cat and Ginger the Buddha Cat, all available on Amazon.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Funny, fantastic,fabulous astonishing tale! By Rebecca H This is another wonderful action packed and sometimes astonishing tale from Frank Kusy. He escapes from a rather complicated situation in his love life by heading off on a trip from Bangkok to Bali to write another travel journal. Immediately he finds trouble in Bangkok when the motorbike he is a passenger on crashes into a limo and he is held at gunpoint until the guards go through his wallet find his press card and let him go. He is a marvellously gifted storyteller and the incident of the beard dying accident had me almost crying with laughter! The hotel he is staying in is evacuated, police sirens are going off, fellow guests are accusing him of murder – but no – he had ‘simply’ dyed his beard. Frank does not like the usual touristy places and wants to go off the beaten track to give readers a sense of the real country. There are some wonderful vivid descriptions which help to bring the places alive for the us ‘ Colourful clusters of butterflies floated up to us, and the air was alive with the sound of bees, hornets, dragonflies and cicadas’ He has us laughing at his attempts to lead a Trailfinders tour and his ‘marriage’ to Nicky in Bali. I loved the voodoo driver who prayed at his clapped out bus. One Guest House owner offers him accommodation then locks him in an insect infested room! There is no doubt that Frank suffers to get material for his travelogues! At one point he is accused of being an illegal alien led away in handcuffs and held in a room with a noose hanging from the ceiling! He finds himself near a war zone. He learns to ask for food with no frog in it. He goes to Australia with a crazy woman. He has to fight off an enthusiastic Chom! And there’s even more fantastic and incredible tales all in this book. Highly recommended I think I’m just going to have to read it again. I hope there’s more in the future.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. A scoundrel, a camel, and everything in between. By Jay Mittener Frank Kusy does not disappoint with his newest chronicles of his adventures and misadventures! I love his wit so much and his ability to bring you right into his world and memory with words, descriptions, and in this case pictures. For those of us who do judge a book by it's cover that also does not disappoint- this cover with the elephant and the vivid colors really stands out on my kindle.What comes through most in this work by Kusy is his vivid love of the world and new experiences. In a time where we keep so much close to the vest Kusy freely writes about falling in and out of love and making bad choices based on his love life. It's really refreshing to hear the honest stories that often mimic what I experience myself.You would think that because he writes with so much candor that he might lack detail in his journey but he doesn't. Along with his person triumphs and stumbles he brings us through parts of the world we may never see. Asia so far off the beaten trail that you'd almost have to be Asian to be there- right into Australia with their spider craziness.Everything from a harem of girlfriends to camels as gifts, Kusy is once again a delight to read. If he keeps writing, I may never have to leave America again.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A talented memoir writer By Tahlia Newland Off the Beaten Track is a memoir of long time travel writer Frank Kusy, author of the AIA Seal of Excellence winner Rupee Millionaire. Kusy’s experience as a writer shows in the fluid, vibrant prose he uses to describe his travels in Asia in the seventies. This is an engaging story full of anecdotes that have you smiling and shaking your head at the antics of the young Kusy.The difficulty in memoir writing is to find a thread that unifies the story in the way that the plot does in fiction. Generally, real life isn’t as dramatic as fiction, and in unskilled hands, it’s easy to lose a reader if the account of a person’s life wanders aimlessly. This would be particularly easy to do in a travel memoir, but Kusy has worked skilfully with his material and used the thread of his efforts to both secure and avoid getting a wife in the same way that a fiction writer would use a plot. Though the various anecdotes are interesting in themselves, without this emphasis, they would not provide such a satisfying whole. We want to read to the end to see how young Frank’s bumbling efforts at romance turn out. Frank is an endearing character and his perspective on the world and efforts to live as a Buddhist add another layer of interest to the memoir.The other theme, as the title suggests, is his desire to get off the beaten track, and the events that thwart his attempts to really experience Asia without a whiff of tourists provide further interest beyond a mere account of his travels. Though not as dramatic as Rupee Millionaires, it’s still a great read, especially for anyone interested in travel in Asia. Highly recommended.The editing is excellent. My only misgiving was that I would have liked the author to have gone more deeply into some aspects of his journey; for example, the ceremony when the Joju Gohonzon was enshrined in the main temple in Jakarta. No doubt the author has his reasons for staying clear of it, but I felt it was a missed opportunity to go deeper into the culture.All up Kusy is a very talented memoir writer and this book should be enjoyed by a wide variety of people.
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