Around the World in 30 Stories. - The author survives with odd jobs in Tokyo, celebrates Christmas in Rio and learns that fat women are sexy - in Jamaica. He experiences warlike conditions in Haiti, shells out $200 for a bottle of whiskey in Alaska and discovers a Turkish pearl in Brooklyn.
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