Asian Trail Mix

A globe-trotting collection of true travel tales that carries the reader from the jungles of Borneo to the temples of Southeast Asia and on to Japan. Eric Madeen writes with a reporter's curiosity and a novelist's warmth, finding story in every crossing.

Ranging across Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and beyond, these essays blend adventure, humor, and hard-won cultural insight — the distilled wisdom of a writer who has spent his life on the road in Asia.