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On a particularly cold aftenoon, he decided he had had enough and needed a break, so drawing a line across Asia seaprating out the warmer climates he closed his eyes and stuck a finger on the map.
Not two weeks later James found himself boarding a plane for the short hop to Siem Reap, an ancient capital of the old Khmer empire and a road trip around the small southeast asian country.
Unaccustomed to backpacking and solo travel, James faithfully recorded his thoughts and feelings as he put himself entirely out of his comfort zone. What he wrote turned out to be an eyeopening and eductional experience, one that changed him, his attitudes and his life forever.
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James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. One of the most influential writers of the 20th Century, Joyce's life was punctuated by poverty, critical controversy and self-imposed exile. Joyce was one of the pioneering figures of modernism and counted W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound amongst his earliest supporters. Before his death in 1941, Joyce had published Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners; works that today are recognized as amongst the greatest achievements in literature.
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