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Stephen Shucart is currently Associate Professor of English at Akita Prefectural University on the Sea of Japan. Previously he was co-owner of Triplegem Lapidary in Kathmandu, Nepal. He has been traveling since 1968, and in Asia since 1972.

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Where Stoddart and Connolly suffered in the infamous Bug Pit.

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