About the Book: Angels By The Murky River Travels Off the Beaten Path
Angels by the Murky River is a collection of travel narratives that stay off
the beaten track. During the course of his travels, the author encounters people
who would not typically attract a tourists attention---homeless people in Mumbai
and Seoul, ageing anarchists in Melbourne, the crew on board a container ship,
poverty-stricken diamond miners in Indonesia, renunciant monks in the material
city of Singapore, farmers-turned-painters in Morocco and China, an elderly
couple who scribble love poems on walls of small-town China while not daring to
meet each other, Filipino women boxers and beauty