The World Is My Oyster (#4 - Complete Collection of all 30 Stories)

Complete collection of all 30 stories from volumes 1-3.

The author survives with odd jobs in Tokyo, celebrates Christmas in Rio and learns that fat women are sexy - in Jamaica.
He discovers the charms of freezing Helsinki, experiences warlike conditions in Haiti and shells out $200 for a bottle of bottom-shelf whiskey in Alaska.
He explores the secrets of lobster fishermen in Maine, assists in a cockfight in Puerto Rico and marvels at a Turkish pearl in Brooklyn. (Stories 1-10)

He finds out how to slip through the border wall in Tijuana, gets in trouble with the Russian Mafia in Moscow and learns how to build a house in a Brazilian favela.
He survives food poisoning in Cairo, goes celebrity hunting in L.A. and ends up in a Berlin emergency room with a severe head wound.
He samples 'Jewish penicillin' in New Jersey, learns that a spliff is part of breakfast in Jamaica and reenacts the fireplace scene of 'The Name of the Rose' in a German monastery. (Stories 11-20)

He checks out Buddha's tooth in Sri Lanka, sniffs at the chamber pot of Louis XIV in Versailles and learns that you should never go to Milan in August.
He guzzles a Singapore Sling right at the bar where it was invented, gets robbed in Miami and runs from the police in Quito.
He finds out where New York drug dealers buy their shoes, is baffled by bala sharks in Kentucky and survives a gas leak during Carnival in Rio. (Stories 21-30)

"A fun look at the world."
"Want to go to exotic places? Read this first!"
"Full of funny encounters with real people from around the globe."
(Reviews on Amazon)

The travelogues in this book were commissioned by German NPR and broadcast on the radio. The author adapted the manuscripts to a literary format and added photos.

See Wikipedia for a bio of the author.