Halfway Around the World by Gavin Young (1983)

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HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD IS ADVENTURE AND TRAVEL WRITING AT ITS VERY BEST-RICH IN HUMOR AND ANECDOTE, FULL OF MEMORABLE CHARACTERS AND SITUATIONS, EXOTIC LANDFALLS AND TERRIFYING MOMENTS.  HE FULFILLED THE ROMANTIC YEARNING OF A LIFETIME IN 1979 BY EMBARKING ON AN ODYSSEY BY SEA FROM PAIRAEUS TO CANTON THAT WAS TO TAKE HIM MORE THAN SEVEN MONTHS.  BY HITCHHIKING ON A TOTAL OF TWENTY-THREE DIFFERENT VESSELS-INCLUDING LOCAL FERRIES, DECREPIT TRAMP STEAMERS, OIL TANKERS, SCHOONERS UNDER FULL SAIL, ARAB DHOWS AND EVEN IN A FILIPINO KUMPIT. 

GAVIN YOUNG HAS LED AN ADVENTUROUS LIFE!!  HE SPENT MOST OF HIS YOUTH IN CORNWALL AND SUOTH WALES, STUDIED MODERN HISTORY AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND SPEND TWO YEARS WITH A SHIPPING COMPANY IN BASRA, IRAQ, BEFORE SETTING OUT TO LIVE FIRST WITH THE MARSH ARABS OF SOUTHERN IRAQ BETWEEN THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS, AND THEN WITH THE OBSCURE PEOPLES IF THE PLAINS AND MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHWESTERN ARABIA.