Even if you're not a fan of Domenico's sci-fi novel, you'll absolutely love this book.
This book inspired me to do more, to experience more, to live more, to travel more. The author's accounts of what he discovers, finds, and reflects upon are fascinating, true, and inspiring. It details the author's journey through Southeast Asia and East Asia and what an incredible solo adventure! It's a heavily researched non-fiction book, but it does have some works of fiction (a steampunk short story based on Shanghai and a dystopian short story). It is also a narrative of finding exotic beauty, inspiration, and unexpected love.
Travels in the Land of Hunger is the author’s reflective account of the dark, long-lasting impact of Western colonialism and imperialism, the Vietnam War, the Khmer Rouge regime, and the sex tourism and sex trafficking industries in Southeast and East Asia. Traveling by foot, bus, train, and boat – and seeing the world through the analytical lens of anthropology, archaeology, and economics – Domenico documents, researches, and deciphers the developing nations he encounters as they rise through the turbulence of unregulated Western capitalism and globalization. In the spring of 2004 – after living in Tokyo, Japan for over three years pursuing a career as a freelance musician – science fiction and fantasy author Domenico Italo Composto-Hart set off on a half-year backpacking journey through the lands of East and Southeast Asia, Siberia, Central Russia, the Baltic states, the Nordic countries, and Eastern and Western Europe.
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