{"title":"Ken Jackson","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-smugglers-of-the-sulu-islands-a-travel-memoir-paperback","title":"The Smugglers of the Sulu Islands: A Travel Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf this is your first time traveling abroad, \"The Smugglers of the Sulu Islands\" may not be the guide for you. But if you've already roamed the planet a bit, this diverse collection of travel stories is a must read. It provides such useful tips as which conversations to avoid with the head of a Philippine smuggling gang or an undercover Hong Kong vice cop. It explains how to economize on Caribbean cruises by hitching a ride on a gravel barge. Some stories include history like Imperial military conflicts along the Khyber Pass, or the East Indies spice trade, or the Cold War in the Taiwan Straits. Wining and dining vignettes advise where to follow the culinary paths of famous writers and how to cope with being locked inside an African wine bar. Cheerful tales about a Bombay beach party contrast with somber ones about an English D-Day memorial. Survival advice on Indian stadium riots and beer drinking Mexican taxi drivers may save lives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book ends in the author's home of two decades, Hong Kong. There he gives us a gritty glimpse of its urban street life; a rail-side view of its frenetic horse racing scene; and a first-hand account of its SARS epidemic. Finally, he reflects on the city he left behind and what has happened to it since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51433697116383,"sku":"9798218147402","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/9B_F31FPZ89798218147402.webp?v=1790016955"},{"product_id":"best-of-ken-jackson-paperback","title":"Best of Ken Jackson - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eI started off as a musician in high school playing guitar and bass. Coming out of high school, I know some of my own songs as well as other artists. I didn't start writing poems for a while though. Except in high school, for English class, I wrote a poem going \" Let's blow up the rotten school and build ourselves a swimming pool..\" and that raised an issue of school threats similar to bomb threats of this day and age. Then there was this dirty poem I wrote in my early 20's. But I was still writing songs then. I took some college courses in jazz, piano, songwriting and creative writing. Back in 85 I recorded with that famous producer. Butch was who produced Neverworld of nirvana, a number one album of the year in the early 90's. Then in '86 I started a 20 year sentence for a crime. This is where I started writing poetry. I took a uw-extension course in creative writing. I wrote a few and people liked them so I wrote more. There came a time where I used poetry as therapy. I would write 2 poems for every 2 weeks. And that beats writer's block. A lot of BEST OF KEN JACKSON has that stuff. Then I was released in '99 and I put out a bunch of rock 'n roll albums. I was also participating in a monthly poetry group for a while. There is a section of this book I wrote using a variety of student researchers. Thank you for reading this book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68057893273823,"sku":"9798896398042","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vmE81CVsf-9798896398042.webp?v=1792133529"},{"product_id":"the-genesis-plan-the-atlan-chronicles-i-paperback","title":"The Genesis Plan: The atLan Chronicles I - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Genesis Plan: The atLan Chronicles I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy: Ken Jackson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a winter away from her Early Bronze Age community, Ishka the Healer returns with an infant son and a secret that no other living person knows. The boy was not given to her by the spirits of the forest, as she defiantly claims, but was fathered by a now-deceased cloud traveler, one of a mysterious people from another world whom her people fear but have never seen. Her plans to groom this special child for the leadership of his people are put in jeopardy not only by her relentless enemy, Vindior, but by the unexpected appearance of a visitor to her village, a woman named Hiri-Eta, whom only Ishka recognizes as being a cloud traveler in disguise. Ishka worries that the woman will discover her son's true identity and take him away to be with his father's people, but Hiri-Eta has a far different agenda, one that will cause even the ever-impulsive Ishka to have second thoughts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Genesis Plan\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book of\u003cem\u003e The atLan Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKen Jackson lives with his wife Maureen in Brantford, Ontario. He has four university degrees, encompassing English, theology, and history, the latter of which includes a master's degree in the subject. 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