{"product_id":"2940011342363","title":"To Travel Hopelessly","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnglish Teacher X, a legendary figure in the world of TEFL, follows up his debut book with this raw, lurid, and vivid memoir of his first five years teaching English abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1995, after a year of aimless wandering, a young man answered an ad in a newspaper in Bangkok and inadvertently became English Teacher X, working, in the next five years, in seven different cities in five different countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a tropical island paradise in Thailand to an industrial hellhole of Post-Soviet Russia, English Teacher X describes, in violent imagery, the life of an English teacher overseas, encountering dishonest and exploitative employers, degenerate colleagues, gold-hearted prostitutes and cold-hearted English groupies, with plenty of drugs and alcohol for all, all the while questing in vain for the Authentic Cultural Experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnglish Teacher X's world serves as a cautionary tale for young people going overseas to teach, or a titillating taste of the many perks of the darker side of English teaching.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"English Teacher X","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068192506096,"sku":"2940011342363","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011342363_p0.jpg?v=1763548666","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011342363","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}