Poling the Planet, Punting in China
By Roadjunky, Posted Dec 29, 2008
![]() Throw away your laptop and become a boatman. Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/qilin/ |
An English boatman goes looking for his counterparts in Asia
By Roadjunky, Posted Dec 29, 2008
![]() Throw away your laptop and become a boatman. Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/qilin/ |
An English boatman goes looking for his counterparts in Asia
Working for a living is the kind of common thread that can draw people together across the world. And even if you don’t really work for a living but just push the odd tourist up and down a river, well, it’s still a common bond that transcends boundaries.
James Bayliss-Smith is traveling the world on a mission to find other boatmen who use the same vessel with which he plies a trade on the river of Cambridge, UK when he’s not making videos. The Chinamen are delighted to see him.
Globalisation can mean sweatshops in Asia making your running shoes, villages in China suffering industrial pollution so we can get cheap consumer goods and outsourcing of just ...
Globalisation can mean sweatshops in Asia making your running shoes, villages in China suffering industrial pollution so we can get cheap consumer goods and outsourcing of just ...