A bird stole my breakfast: and other travel tales

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Half a century ago Roger Day began three years of voluntary work in India and Nepal. It was an era before popular tourism came to the region. In this book he takes a fun-filled look at the good, the bad and the ugly of that time. His adventures included: Sleeping through an earthquake. Seeing an elephant fly. Having his breakfast stolen by a bird. Being caught in the middle of a militant riot. Finding and helping an abandoned child. Follow him as he describes joys and sorrows, successes and failures, triumphs and tragedies.