Taste of Cockroach

Yates was cautiously lifting a cooked and curried crescent to his mouth. He stopped and looked at Pettit. ''It''s a cockroach,'' he said. ''I''m going to eat it.''
''What in hell for?''
''To find out what it tastes like.'' Here is a journey that begins with a shuddering disaster in the Himalayas, and ends with an ill-starred romance on Mars. In between are adventures down the rivers of Cambodia and Laos, battles with bulls in Australian country towns, encounters with French agents, freelance photography assignments, handbag-snatchers in Naples, thong-flingers in Rangoon, bread queues in Afghanistan, and more. This streetwise collection from master storyteller Allan Baillie spans centuries of cross-cultural relationships, civil wars and expeditions.