Joshua Samuel Brown
Biographical Info:
A longtime Things Asian contributor, Josambro’s work has appeared all over the world in a strange and eclectic variety of publications. He has been hailed by noted Discordian thinker Lago Von Slack as “the Mahatma Gandhi of restaurant criticism, the Rudyard Kipling of professional boxing, and the Lance Armstrong of economic planning.” Available on Amazon, Josambro’s first book, Vignettes of Taiwan offers tales of betel nut beauties and how to avoid jail time by impersonating a Mormon.
Having spent the better part of 2006 researching and writing sections of Fodor’s upcoming China guidebook, JSB is currently in Taiwan working on the 2007 Lonely Planet Guidebook. Follow him online at http://josambro.blogspot.com/.
Links of interest:
Joshua Samuel Brown's Online Portfolio
Recent Contributions
Trader Tots of Angkor Wat
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Angkor Wat is home to hundreds of thousand-year old ruins; it’s also the stomping ground of about as many uncannily erudite ten-year olds, children who both speak passable English and can recite with...
Destinations:
Siem Reap |
Cambodia |
Angkor
Topics:
Economy |
Travel |
National Parks |
Shopping |
For Kids
Taiwan on the Fast Track
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Its fun to throw around numbers (‘287 kilometers per hour,’ the hair-raising speed the train reaches on the 28 minute burn between Hsinchu and Taichung), but can the ride be put in more easy to grasp terms? Consider the work of Jackie Chan...
Destinations:
Taiwan
Topics:
Economy |
Travel |
Adventure
Wind Warriors of The Pescadores
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An archipelago on the Taiwanese Strait may prove to be the ultimate training ground for international windsurfers, and they don't even have to dodge bullets anymore.
Destinations:
Taiwan
Topics:
Beaches & Resorts |
Sports
Verboten Mountain
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...It’s a cruel thing to be told after enduring six hours on three busses and one Jackie Chan video that you’re being denied access to the area’s most pristine wilderness area based on national identity.
Destinations:
Guilin |
China |
Yangshuo
Topics:
Culture |
Travel |
Adventure |
National Parks |
20th Century History |
Nature |
Ecotourism
Noisy Days in Yangshuo
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In Guangxi province's Yangshuo, the footfall of backpackers and rustling of bamboo has is being drowned in a sea of ear-wrenching construction noise as this once-quiet town works to accomadate future generations of Chinese tourists.
