General Title - Travel & Culture

Title

The Greenland Seal Hunter: Travel Tales From Distant Places

ISBN	9812328904

Imprint

Times Editions by Marshall Cavendish

Author(s)

Tan Wee Cheng

Specifications

198 mm X 130 mm, 240 pp, Limp, 200 gms

Publication Date

Sep-2004

Target Audience

Travel Readers

Price (US)

US$ 11.50

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In this compelling travel memoir, intrepid adventurer Tan Wee Cheng writes about his travel experiences as he journeys through various distant lands. From passing through war-torn countries to joining Greenland’s Inuit people on a seal hunt to visiting the Royal Salt Mines of Wieliczka in Poland and even taking a 9,000-km journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway across the Taiga, Wee Cheng has been there. Leaving the creature comforts of his London home, Wee Cheng describes his journeys through lands with corrupt policemen, Cypriot gangsters and a host of other dangers, risking life and limb. Readers share the thrills with Wee Cheng as he recounts some of his more unusual journeys through lands that many people don’t know about and may never visit. Forget the package tour and venture into the unknown from the comfort of your armchair.

Singaporean by birth, Tan Wee Cheng is a self-confessed travel junkie who has visited over a hundred countries in the last decade. He has a weak spot for controversial places and has a tendency to get into minor troubles, such as getting arrested by corrupt police in Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and the rebel state of Transdniestria (Moldova). He has survived road accidents in Albania, floods in Ecuador, mugging incidents in Jerusalem, St Petersburg and Bucharest, and almost got into a fight with a Cypriot gangster. Wee Cheng has worked in the finance sector as an auditor in Singapore and an investment banker in London. He is now back in Singapore, working for a statutory board. These days he spends his leisure time planning more travels, working on his travel website, photographing local temple ceremonies and having endless slices of good old kaya toast.