What happens when chance, work and curiosity become your route through Asia and the South Seas?

In Cheers — Buddha!, Finnish writer and traveler Sulo-Weikko Pekkola presents himself as an adventurer rather than a tourist with a fixed plan. His journey leads through the colonial world of Asia and the Pacific, where ports, trains, temples and markets form the setting for encounters along the way.

This is travel writing from between the world wars, shaped by the European empires that rule much of the region. Pekkola offers a northern traveler's view of distant places. Reading him means exploring both the world he describes and the assumptions he brings to it, especially when local people appear through an outsider's eyes.

この本で学べること

• A route shaped by chance Follow an adventurer whose movements depend on work, curiosity and whatever comes next.
• Ports and railway journeys Enter a world where steamships, railways and port towns connect distant regions with Europe.
• Buddhist Asia in view Explore the temples, monks and Buddha images that draw European travelers' attention.
• A Finnish traveler's perspective See Asia and the Pacific through a writer who brings distant lands to Finnish readers.
• The colonial lens Notice how the attitudes of an era shape what a traveler sees and describes.

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You will enjoy this if you love travel tales told with humour, from one honest eyewitness. It suits readers who like ships, trains, jungle trails and colonial Asia.