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An idealistic backpacker volunteering as an English teacher in Nepal finds herself entangled with an international gang of smugglers whose Thai leader believes she’s stolen their diamonds.
“A book I’d like to mention to any readers thirsty for some armchair adventure.” – Beth Green of The Displaced Nation
"A good book to take to Kathmandu because it does convey the venal, buzzy feel of the city." 4 stars location, 4 stars content – TripFiction
Overworked computer programmer Zelda Richardson is teetering on the edge of burnout. Inspired by a girlfriend’s trip around the world, she sublets her apartment in Seattle, Washington, buys a backpack and flies to Kathmandu as a volunteer English teacher – determined to make a difference and find herself whilst doing it.
She can’t wait to immerse herself in Nepalese life – wear a Sari, eat with her right hand and wipe with her left – but becomes overwhelmed by its foreignness. Despite the power outages, lack of running water and difficulty in learning the language, she sticks it out, wanting to prove to her friends and family – but mainly to herself – that she can survive without the luxuries of home.
One distraction is the charming Ian, the sexy Australian backpacker whom she gets to know on arriving in Nepal. When her students laugh her out of the classroom and the headmaster publicly humiliates her, Zelda flees to the tourist district of Thamel to drown her sorrows with Ian.
What follows is every traveler’s nightmare as they find themselves entangled with an international gang of smugglers whose Thai leader believes Ian and Zelda have stolen their diamonds.
Can Zelda find a way to get the smugglers off their backs and her Nepalese students to respect her, before her time in Kathmandu is over?
Similar to The Beach, Are You Experienced?, Losing Gemma and Backpack, Down and Out in Kathmandu: adventures in backpacking is the perfect book for lovers of backpacker fiction and (mis)adventure novels. A Face-paced, fun and insightful read, especially if you’re interested in - or about to travel to - Nepal or Thailand.
Jennifer S. Alderson is also the author of The Lover's Portrait: An Art Mystery (June 24, 2016). Both books are part of an on-going stand-alone series following the adventures of traveler and culture lover, Zelda Richardson.
- Sales Rank: #3764746 in Books
- Published on: 2015-12-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .51" w x 6.00" l, .68 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 226 pages
Review
"Quite an eventful trip, but I loved it!" Goodreads Giveaway winner's review (4 stars) [goodreads.com/book/show/28268451-down-and-out-in-kathmandu]
"A book I'd like to mention to any readers thirsting for some armchair adventure." - Beth Green of The Displaced Nation [thedisplacednation.com/2016/05/06/booklust-wanderlust-in-honor-of-mothers-day-three-books-by-and-about-strong-international-women/]
About the Author
Jennifer S. Alderson (1972) is the author of Down and Out in Kathmandu: adventures in backpacking and The Lover's Portrait: An Art Mystery. She worked as a journalist and website developer in Seattle, Washington before giving up her career to travel the world. In 2004, she moved to the Netherlands to pursue degrees in art history and museum studies. Home is now Amsterdam, where she lives with her Dutch husband and young son. Jennifer’s travels and experiences color and inform her internationally-oriented fiction. Down and Out in Kathmandu and The Lover’s Portrait are part of an on-going stand-alone series following the adventures of traveler and culture lover, Zelda Richardson. Review and discuss Down and Out in Kathmandu and The Lover’s Portrait on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JenniferSAldersonAuthor For more information about the author and her upcoming novels, please visit: http://www.JenniferSAlderson.com or http://www.JenniferSAlderson.nl
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Novel set in Nepal and Thailand (“a silly carefree tourist”)
By TripFiction
Three strong characters appear in this novel, Zelda, Ian and Tommy. How their paths cross is part of the storyline’s progression and the reader is kept guessing until the end.
Zelda is from Canada, has stepped off the work treadmill for a while, and opted to join a charitable scheme for a few weeks based in Nepal, teaching local children. Her accommodation is provided and she is soon, somewhat uncomfortably, ensconced with her family. She had hoped for authentic lodgings, with thangkas on the wall, and other local paraphernalia to colour her life, but sadly she finds herself in a bit of a concrete jungle.
She is not a natural traveller (she the silly carefree tourist of the title) and finds her bile rising as she succumbs to scams. Teaching is not her natural forte, consequently she finds herself challenged on more fronts than she can tolerate. She is also focussed on comparisons between home and Nepal, and although she tries to catch herself doing it, she does stray into the territory of the whinger. And a whinging tourist doesn’t make for an edifying read.
Ian has taken a break from teaching in Australia, is a bit of a pothead, and he is a fast worker as he has grown his hair into dreadlocks especially for this adventure. Needless to say he gets himself into some scrapes along the way.
Tommy is based in Thailand – a bit of a surprise bearing in mind the title – and a fair proportion of the story takes place there. He is an unlikeable waster, who thinks he has an eye for the girls, but is an insecure pretend playboy. An insufferable buffoon, basically.
All three in their different ways take on gangland mobsters, and this is where the story becomes a little implausible. Amateur travellers take on big time gangsters. Goons and henchmen abound and ‘the boys in blue” also get a look-in. It is in the latter half of the book that the competent writing at the start begins to wane, and annoying typos creep in – is body order the same as body odour, I wondered? If not, what is it? “what a second, should, I imagine, be wait a second and a sentence like “..taking him for a fool just like him mom” left me scrabbling for the sense. The Khao San Road morphs into the Kho San Road and whether the sentence “it was the same day she’d gone on a hike with Ganesh the other volunteers in the Kathmandu Valley..” is missing punctuation, a word or simply features a typo, I am not sure. More than a couple of errors can rather impact on the reading experience. It is imperative, always, as an author to engage the services of a reputable proof reader.
Interestingly the author has chosen to have the content type set to the left. Books are usually (just check any random book on your shelf) centred and there is a reason for this. The eye, as it skims across the text from one side to the other, needs the regular straight boundary at the edge of the block text, both left and right. However, when the eye has to keep searching out the end of the line, the fluidity is jarred and the reading experience is impaired. It becomes a ragged read rather than smooth flowing and pleasurable.
The locale is certainly hot and steamy and successfully brings to life the trip Zelda undertakes in the company of her guide, Khamel, to, for example, Swayambhunath Monkey Temple – this outing is well rendered (the temple was sadly damaged in the Nepal Earthquake of 25 April, 2015). Kathmandu really doesn’t come across as an easy place. Money is the main language and Zelda finds herself preoccupied with the dirt and squalor.
Finally to the cover. Block colours are often shorthand for a manual rather than a novel. “Adventures in Backpacking” which appears under the main orange title is pretty much lost, as black on dark blue simply doesn’t stand out sufficiently clearly. Nor am I sure that the composition works – is the main image a stupa? And what of those rather beady orange eyes looking out at the potential reader? They left me feeling a bit creeped out. I think I would also find it irritating, as an author, that the cover artwork isn’t centred, that there is more red background on the right than on the left…. but hey, each to their own about what is acceptable and what isn’t…
This book is however a reasonably solid read, and if some of the content issues are addressed in the next print run, then it is worthy of a good 3.75* book to take to Kathmandu because it does convey the venal, buzzy feel of the city.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A modern adventurer....
By Jen L.
Down and Out Kathmandu includes adventurous tall tales of the virgin backpacker. Along the way, the protagonist. meets Ian the seductive Australian, and Tommy the twit. Nepal and Thailand are the highlighted countries where the author divulges cultural content and life lessons from her experiences. Nothing is as she expects…which is why traveling is so awesome, always full of surprises, especially when it’s done blindly.
An excellent novel full of travel stories for the new or current backpacker. Anyone who has backpacked, thrown themselves naively into another culture, will be able to relate to this, and should read it. The story events become more extreme bordering between non-fiction and fiction, but that’s all part of the fun and imagination!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
and insight into what life can be like for a Westerner volunteering in a developing country
By Jennifer S. Alderson
Loosely based on my own experiences traveling around Southeast Asia, Down and Out in Kathmandu is meant to be a somewhat silly, slightly cynical, travel adventure story. It offers a peek into the backpacker culture of Nepal and Thailand, and insight into what life can be like for a Westerner volunteering in a developing country. What do you think, did I succeed?
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