This is another opportunity for me to introduce another Rave Reviews Book Club author and his book. This sounds like an interesting experience, and Fred is here to share it with us.

Background to Fred’s Diary 1981

Fred was a nickname that Robert Fear was given while at school. It became his travel name and he is still known as Fred to this day.

Fred’s Diary 1981 is the edited version of a handwritten diary that I kept during my travels in Asia between February and July 1981. I had never committed any of my previous travels to paper in the way I did for this long awaited journey into the unknown. The final collection ran to 600 pages of closely written detail.

When I landed in Hong Kong in that February I had two small carbon copy books of 100 pages each and started writing everything…