Talking Teapots
A roller-coaster ride of fun and adventure. Try learning the language of Teapots, unravel the Chinese Calendar of animals at Singapore's "Fountain of Health", experience a miracle in Sri Lanka, sail the Flores and South China seas on the 'Bali Sea Dancer', learn the mysterious and inimitable 'Saigon Shuffle'.
Find friendship, excitement and new experienjces as you accompany the author through the ancient and the modern, through nature and advernture, folklore and grim reality. This is a continuing celebration of life and living across wonderful Asia [Details].
Find friendship, excitement and new experienjces as you accompany the author through the ancient and the modern, through nature and advernture, folklore and grim reality. This is a continuing celebration of life and living across wonderful Asia [Details].
A collection of stories from around the world, based on the author's
peripatetic wanderings. Exploring the people's psyche, attempting to understand
their motivations, their value, and their pursuit of difficult, demanding and
widely varied daily lives. Searching far and wide for differences but finding
only a same universal decency, uprightness, courage in adversity, and an open
welcoming sharing. Revelling in diversity and wonder, in the goodness, the
rectitude and the intensity of all peoples.
A grand adventure across many nations, open and welcoming meeting with ordinary people in everyday situations. Yet experiencing extraordinary and moving events. An elemental celebration of life, camraderie, humanity and Mother Earth.
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A grand adventure across many nations, open and welcoming meeting with ordinary people in everyday situations. Yet experiencing extraordinary and moving events. An elemental celebration of life, camraderie, humanity and Mother Earth.
[Contents]
Awestruck on
Orchard Road: $10.00 (US)
: "Humourous without ever losing his sense of empathy...teases your curiosity and leaves you waning more". India's #1 weekly magazine reviews Alex's books. [ Read the review ]
Deccan Herald Review: "Massively informative... one of the important writers on travelogue... his perspicacity, range of experience, sensitivity to the modern spiritual predicament, clarity of style". Bangalore's leading newpaper reviews Alex's Awestruck on Orchard Road. [ Read the review ]
Breakfast in China
An absorbing collection of short stories from Asia.
Filled with offbeat adventure, resplendent nature, exciting sport and
ancient folklore. Exploring the wonder of day-to-day life across many
nations and finding astonishment and surprise in the ordinary lives of
people everywhere. Where wisdom comes in large doses from the least
expected
quarters and an excess of joy swells in places bereft of abundance,
fortune
or pomp.
A single fine thread runs through the stories, one
of convivial candor, welcoming friendships and the struggle for survival
that is common to these lands. The joy of beginning each new day full
of cheer, hope and expectation even in the face of continuous struggle.
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Breakfast in
China: $8.00 (US)
[Contents, More Reviews, Details]
Breakfast in
China: $8.00 (US)
Reader Comments and Reviews
»Scintillating Experience
Alex Abraham has an absolutely distinctive way of looking at the world and its contents. The stories retell unforgettable moments in lucid and simple prose.
Alex Abraham has an absolutely distinctive way of looking at the world and its contents. The stories retell unforgettable moments in lucid and simple prose.
Deccan Herald
»Heart-Warming
Absorbing collection of short stories.
Absorbing collection of short stories.
Femina, Jan 15 2003.
»The
book is an absolute gem
I have found this book to be an absolute gem. It is like that old song, "It's a wonderful, wonderful world!" That is the strength of this book. ….. The writing is so evocative that one would want to be at all these places and meet all these people.
I have found this book to be an absolute gem. It is like that old song, "It's a wonderful, wonderful world!" That is the strength of this book. ….. The writing is so evocative that one would want to be at all these places and meet all these people.
Susan
Chacko, Denver, USA
»Brilliant
and beautiful
I have read with great pleasure this book. His love for and observation of details, nature, people and way of life makes the short stories very worthwhile to read.
I have read with great pleasure this book. His love for and observation of details, nature, people and way of life makes the short stories very worthwhile to read.
Hans
Jeffermans, Holland
Alex's Travel Album
"What's a travel books without pictures?", asks Alex. Here are a few gems from his wanderings, for your viewing pleasure.
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About Alex Abraham
An engineer by education, a marketer by training and an inveterate traveler by
choice, Alex Abraham began his working life in a steel plant, then worked and
wandered across Asia, Africa, the UK, China, the Middle East, the Far East and
the Pacific. His abiding passions and lifelong pursuits include tennis, nature,
wild life, trekking, every kind of sport and most of all, people.
Alex writes regular columns on business-related issues. Some of his recent articles:
Alex writes regular columns on business-related issues. Some of his recent articles:
Marketing lessons from Saidhu's shack
The Dubai Ports Authority: Creating competitive advantage
Emirates Airlines: Scaling great heights
The Dubai Internet City: Creating competitive advantage
Mongolia beyond Ulan Baatar
Damayanti and the Krisis
India Vision 10-20-50
Biggest and the best... only in the US
Energia: A proud concept in power management