Why read In Search of the Blue Duck?

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Memoir of falling in love young and travelling and working rough around Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and Indonesia in the mid-1980s.

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Auriel Roe

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After graduating, the narrator's family set him up with a job on Wall Street but it just isn't for him despite his upbringing preparing him for this kind of route. A few months later, he sets off on a round-the-world trip. The book features the first eighteen months of this journey spent in Australasia scraping a living in any way he can with occasionally outlandish casual jobs including beekeeping, running a youth hostel, and working on a production line in a cardboard box factory. He comes across a young woman, another traveller, sleeping beneath a table of honey pots and…

From Auriel's list on The best memoirs that read like novels.