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Fakirs, Feluccas and Femmes Fatales: Tales from an Incidental Traveller

Fakirs, Feluccas and Femmes Fatales offers everything its title promises and more. A warts-and-all account of author E.T. Laing’s travels, brief encounters and adventures from working in seventy countries, this title offers a kaleidoscope of landscapes, sounds, smells, politics, humour, dialogue and, above all, people.

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