Perking the Pansies - Jack and Liam move to Turkey

Jack and Liam fed up with kiss-my-arse bosses and nose-to-nipple commutes quit their jobs and move to a small town in Turkey. Join the culture-curious gay couple on their bumpy rite of passage in a Muslim country. Meet the oddballs VOMITs vetpats emigreys semigreys debauched waiters and middle England miseries. When bigotry and ignorance emerge from the crude underbelly of Turkey's expat life Jack and Liam waver. Determined to stay the course the happy hedonistas hitch up their skirts move to the heart of liberal Bodrum and fall in love with their intoxicating foster land. Enter Jack's irreverent world for a right royal dose of misery and joy bigotry and enlightenment betrayal and loyalty friendship love earthquakes birth adoption and a senseless murder. Perking the Pansies will make you laugh out loud one minute and sob into your crumpled tissue the next. "Scott pulls no punches. A good read and hopefully the first of many by new boy on the block." Jane Akatay journalist "An insightful tale of life abroad - with a twist - from the pen of a serial people watcher. Expat Jack lays his characters bare along with his heart and soul'' Kym Ciftci On the Ege Magazine Ontheege.com "Jack and Liam bring a certain je ne sais quoi to the souks and heap a plate of dry British wit to their Ottoman misadventures" Charles Ayres author Impossibly Glamorous Impossiblyglamorous.com "... hilarious saucy witty heartwarming and incredibly moving Perking the Pansies is chock full of odd characters and odder situations. Jack Scott has a way with words and proves that it is the relationships we surround ourselves with that matter most" Linda A Janssens Writer and Co-Author Turning Points Adventuresinexpatland.com[]

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The Boy Behind the Gate: How His Dream of Sailing Around the World Became a Six-Year Odyssey of Adventure Fear Discovery and Love

FOLLOW THE GLOBAL SAILING ADVENTURES OF JULIA AND HER CREW AS THEY DISCOVER THE WORLD AND THEMSELVES

With his first mate and crew amateur sailor Larry Jacobson embarked on a lifelong goal to circumnavigate the globe. The namesake boy behind the gate is a passionate romantic who since childhood yearned to discover what's out there ... .

How do some people overcome fears and insecurities to manifest their dreams? What are the characteristics that allow them to completely transform their lives from one of stability to one of uncertainty and adventure? Don't we all entertain ideas of reinventing ourselves of having a chance to do it differently and by our own rules?

Willing to risk all Jacobson spent six years sailing into the unknown where the unrelenting oceans served as a teacher of seamanship personal strength and perseverance.

In "The Boy Behind the Gate" the author reveals those crucial steps that will motivate you to make your dreams come true. We are each given one great opportunity at life. What are you going to do with yours?[]

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Our hearts were young and gay (Armed Services edition)

Many of the earliest books particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable high quality modern editions using the original text and artwork.[]

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Spartacus International Gay Guide 2011-2012 (Spartacus Travel Guide)

The editorial team of the Spartacus Internationally Gay Guide works incessantly to present you with an up-to-date comprehensive and worldwide overview of all the relevant addresses for the gay tourist. Naturally we do all this in order to present a product which earns the predicate "excellent". This effort on our behalf has not gone unnoticed: the IGLTA - that internationally Gay and Lesbian Travel Association - : In connection with our 40th anniversary the Spartacus International Gay Guide was awarded the Hanns Ebensten Hall of Fame Award. A recognition that we have helped gay men for four decades who have explored the world with help from our guide.[]

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Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal (New York Review Books Classics)

In the 1920s the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature.[]

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Delaplaine's Guide to South Beach 2011

Travel writer novelist and screenwriter Andrew Delaplaine is based on South Beach so he knows the area quite well. Miami is a great place from which to travel around the world. But it's also a wonderful place to call home. The best hotels; his most preferred restaurants; bargain finds; sensible alternatives to the usual tourist traps. A true "insider's guide."[]

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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City

An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David–Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet the fifth in her series of Asian travels and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa Tibet's forbidden city.

In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture disguised herself as a beggar with yak hair extensions and inked skin and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the World. With the help of her young companion Yongden she willingly suffered the primitive travel conditions frequent outbreaks of disease the ever–present danger of border control and the military to reach her goal.

The determination and sheer physical fortitude it took for this woman delicately reared in Paris and Brussels is inspiration for men and women alike.

David–Neel is famous for being the first Western woman to have been received by any Dalai Lama and as a passionate scholar and explorer of Asia hers is one of the most remarkable of all travellersߴales.

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