Brian Lee Thacker

Brian Thacker

Brian Miles Thacker (born April 25, 1945) is a former United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationthe Medal of...

I'm Not Eating Any of That Foreign Muck: Travels with Me Dad

In a quest to grow closer with his father, this adventurousauthor drags his 72-year-old dad, Harry Thacker, off the couch and halfway around the world to exotic locations such as Gibraltar, Sri Lanka, Malta, and Singapore as well as to the not-so-exotic places in England from Harry’s upbringing. Har...

Tell Them to Get Lost: Travels With the Lonely Planet Guide Book That Started it All

Travels with the Lonely Planet guidebook that started it all.When Tony Wheeler wrote Lonely Planet's first-ever shoestring guidebook, South-East Asia offered 'cheap and interesting travel without the constantly oppressing misery of some of the less fortunate parts of Asia'. Certain 'hotspots' in the...

Couch Surfing: Eine abenteuerliche Reise um die Welt

Where's Wallis?

Planes, Trains & Elephants

Whether you're an explorer or a tourist, the journey often proves to be more exciting than the place you arrive at. Not to mention more alarming, entertaining, spectacular, dangerous or farcical. All of which is pretty closely connected with the mode of transport you're dependent on - from stubborn ...

Sleeping Around: A Couch Surfing Tour of the Globe

Shamelessly freeloading his way around the world, cadging free food and accommodation wherever and however he can, Brian Thacker is a 'couch surfer' par excellence. This is extreme travel at its most 'out there'.

Biography - Thacker, Brian (1962-): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online

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I'm Not Eating Any of That Foreign Muck: (Travels With Me Dad)