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...which he found almost hateful, and only wanted to concentrate on his fiction, considering that, at last, to be his real writing. He was an acknowledged master of the short story and a great deal of his fiction was based on material provided by his extensive travels. His first trip to Samoa and the South Seas was in 1916 and he kept exploring - visiting French Polynesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Peking, Singapore and what was then Malaya - with absolute fascination until the early 1920s. His finest short-story collections, The Trembling of a Leaf (1921), The Casuarina Tree...
...ridden bikes since I was 18 or 19. It's my main passion. I'd read a book by Ted Simon called Jupiter's Travels about his round-the-world trip in the 1970s, and I was so moved by his experience I set about organizing a trip with my friend Charley Boorman. We made a series called Long Way Round, one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life...
Among the many hands that Barack Obama will likely shake on his inaugural trip to Asia as U.S. President will be that of a soft-spoken general who happens to represent one of the world's most repressive regimes. Obama's planned joint appearance on Nov. 15 with Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein, at an Association of Southeast Asian Nations' confab on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Singapore, will mark the first time since the era of Lyndon B. Johnson that an American President has spent any face-time with a member of the Burmese...
...Barack Obama embarks on his first trip to Asia as President, he has the luxury of a largely united group of aides to guide him through the diplomatic and economic issues that have characterized U.S.-Asian relations for more than a decade: claims of unfair trade practices between the U.S. and China and Japan, the ongoing crisis of a potentially nuclear North Korea, the challenge of how to best address climate change and the fate of U.S. military bases in Japan...
...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is on Obama's trip and can rightly claim that her department is a key player on policy in this part of the world. That policy weight comes from Steinberg, a China expert and former Deputy National Security Adviser who is staying in Washington during the trip. He has been largely responsible for designing the Administration's approach to Asia, which is to focus on reassuring both long-term allies and China that the U.S. seeks increased cooperation in areas of shared interest. Kurt Campbell, a centrist Clinton White House and Pentagon official, will have...