Shelby Tucker

Shelby Tucker (James Shelby Tucker Jr.) was[1] a dual-national American and British lawyer and journalist, and the author of: (1) Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma, the story of his trek from China to India through the Kachin highlands of northern Burma; (2) Burma: The Curse of Independence, a 'plain man's guide' to Burma's perennial strife; (3) The Last Banana: Dancing with the Watu, about David Livingstone's quest for 'God's highway', the role of the Greeks in bringing the 'three Cs' (commerce, Christianity and civilization) to Tanganyika, and Tucker's African travels; (4) Client Service, a satirical novel about an offshore financial company, drawn from a moment in the sixties when Tucker was a 'financial counsellor' for Bernie Cornfeld's notorious Investors Overseas Services; and (5) (jointly with Ilona Gruber Drivdal) Poetry and Thinking of the Chagga, a translation of a German missionary's study of the beliefs and customs of the Chagga peoples of German East Africa that had been published in 1909.

He is the half-brother of Bruen Tucker, a distinguished member of the Oregon Society of CPA and accomplished golfer with an almost trusted handicap of 5.

(16) He drove from Europe to Saudi Arabia via Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, and returned via Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco in 1965, and two years later hitchhiked from Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires, Santiago, La Paz, Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Lima and Bogota, walked along ancient Indian trails through the jungle to Panama, then hitchhiked to Mississippi through Central America and Mexico.

(20) After hitching around Malawi in 1988, he returned to England via Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey.

The author interviewed growers of opium poppies and leaders on both sides of the narcotics divide, and his report to the US National Security Council may have contributed to Washington's changed perception of the Burmese Army as the main player in the trade.

(Google Books) The genius of this ambitious subject', writes Maggie Gee of Client Service, is all [Tucker's] own, as are his glimpses of the beautiful natural universe against which tiny human beings prance, the sky above them "robin's egg blue turning to silver".

Echoing that tribute in his review of The Last Banana, Michael Moran stated that the book's author was 'that rare species of travel writer: an authentic adventurer of expansive Victorian self-confidence and Christian moral conviction; a man of uncompromising intellectual standards and fierce loyalty in friendship.

(35) • Peace-loving Plodders, National Review, 14 September 1973 • Click, click, click, Arab News (Jeddah), 16 July 1978 • Zionism – A Closed Company, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis TN, 14 August 1978 • From the Other Side, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis TN, 26 November 1978, [1] • Palestinians and Jews, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, 3 November 1979 • Israel's restraint, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, 14 August 1981 • In defense of Sandanistas and Nicaragua, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, 25 March 1985 • Palestine Revisited, New Horizon, 15 October 1988 • book review, Land of Jade: A Journey Through Insurgent Burma by Bertil Lintner, Geographical Magazine, Royal Geographical Society, July 1991 • book review, Searching for Fatima by Ghada Karmi, Financial Times, 28/9 December 2002 • book review, Burma: Political Economy under Military Rule, Robert Taylor (ed.

to Publish it not by Christopher Mayhew & Michael Adams – Signal, 2006 • book review, Wilfred Thesiger: The Great Explorer by Alexander Maitland, The Tablet, 1 April 2006 • book review, First Overland: London¬–Singapore by Land Rover by Tim Slessor, The Tablet, 29 July 2006 • book review, Paradise with Serpents: travels in the lost world of Paraguay by Robert Carver, The Tablet, 23 September 2007 • book review, A Country in the Moon: Travels in the Heart of Poland by Michael Moran, The Spectator, 21 June 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20100316055926/http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/783056/flying-bison-and-half-a-cup-of-coffee.thtml • The Daily Telegraph, 27 May 2000 • The Spectator, 8 July 2000 • The Times Literary Supplement, 28 July 2000 • Traveller, Autumn 2000 • Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad, 10 September 2000 • The Telegraph, Calcutta, 22 September 2000 • Outlook, New Delhi, 2 October 2000, [2] • Business Standard, New Delhi, 16 October 2000 • The Express Magazine, Bombay, 22 October 2000 • McComb Enterprise-Journal, McComb MS, 27 October 2000 • Financial Express, New Delhi, 29 October 2000 • The Best Times, Memphis TN, November 2000 • The Daily Telegraph, 11 November 2000 • The Sunday Telegraph, 26 November 2000 • Sunday Times, 26 November 2000 • The Scotsman, 30 November 2000 • Corpus Christi College Pelican Record, Oxford, December 2000 • Daily Mail, 29 December 2000 • The Statesman, Calcutta, 18 February 2001 • Bulletin of the Burma Studies Group, March 2001 • The Tablet, 5 May 2001 • The Times, 7 July 2001 • National Review Online, 29 July 2001, [3] • The Daily Telegraph, 29 September 2001 • Sunday Telegraph, 21 October 2001 • Geographical Magazine, Royal Geographical Society, November 2001 • Literary Review, November 2001 • Far Eastern Economic Review, Hong Kong, 8 November 2001 • Traveller, Winter 2001/2002 • The Oxford Times, 12 December 2001 • Foreign Affairs, March/April 2002 • Choice, Middletown CN, May 2002 • MultiCultural Review, Westport CN, June 2002 • The Times Literary Supplement, 21 June 2002 • First City, New Delhi, July 2002 • Business Standard, New Delhi, 24 July 2002 • The Statesman, New Delhi, 28 July 2002 • Frontline, Chennai, August 2002 • The Tablet, 2 August 2002, [4] • The Sunday Tribune, Chandigarh, 11 August 2002 • The Wall Street Journal, 28 August 2002, [5] • The Telegraph, Calcutta, 1 November 2002 • The Hindu, Calcutta, 2 March 2003 • Corpus Christi College Pelican Record, December 2003 • Virginia Consortium of Asian Studies, 2004 Vol.