Warning - Strange Dog

By Jerry Stivers

Through true stories, photographs and vignettes, the author takes you along during his working and traveling days. To countries, states and regioinal areas like Bangladesh, Florida, Hanoi, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Northeast Brazil, Northern California, Pakistan, Portugal, Singapore and West Africa.The book's name "Warning - Strange Dog" is an indication of how the author has traveled. Distinct memories, his stories are a record of frequently unusual places.Take a taxi across the top half of Saudi Arabia's desert, from Tabuk to Petra in Jordan, the "rose red city, half as old as time".Visit Lakshmi the temple elephant in Puducherry, South India. Ask her to carry a prayerinside for your friend's father who has just died in San Diego. Fearless as a warhorse, she leads a ritual procession of fire, drum and horns through the interior of the temple.Fly into old Bangladesh in a high-winged Fokker Friendship airplane, over the banana trees and thatched huts. Land on Comilla's World War II jungle airstrip. Talk with the economic planner to this major agricultural district, in his residence, a former Hindu palace called The Rani's House.Walk along the sea wall in Cochin, West India. Down to the estuary that enters the harbor, where cantilevered nets scoop fish from the sea. Their design is ancient Chinese and first introduced here by Portuguese settlers from Macau.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1532844794
• ISBN13: 9781532844799
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"